Who am I

Who am I

Well my name is Dave, I live on the edge of the Cotswolds with my partner who has been a vegetarian most of her life. So until 10 months ago I did eat meat although this had been becoming less and less through the time I had been living with Charlotte.

Charlotte being a great cook had introduced me to fantastic vegetarian food, foods that I had never dreamed that I would eat as growing up I was less than enthusiastic about veg! Charlotte never once objected if I ate meat in here company but all our home meals together were vegetarian. Straight away I was noticing how tasty these meals were, far tastier than my meat meals that I was used to. One other great benefit was that as well as loosing weight I was felling a whole lot better so on March 9th 2014 I ate my last meat meal when I took my father to a Chinese restaurant for his 91^st birthday. I had disappointed myself because I had already gone three months without meat.

That disappointment helped me make up my mind and to this day I can say I am now vegetarian.

Dinner tonight is a fantastic Potato and Mushroom curry .

One pot Mushroom & Potato Curry

An easy curry  that takes about 10 mins prep time and around 20 mins cooking
Serves 4

 

Ingredients

• 1 Tbsp Oil
• 1 Onion roughly chopped
• 1 Aubergine (trimmed & chopped into chunks)
• 250 g Button Mushrooms
• 2-4 tbsp of curry paste (depending how hot you like your curry)
• 150ml Vegetable stock
• 400ml can of coconut milk
• Chopped coriander to serve

Heat the oil in a large saucepan; add the onion and the potato.

Cover and cook on low heat for 5 mins until potatoes begin to soften.

Add the aubergines and mushrooms and cook for a further 3-4 mins

Stir in the curry paste and pour In the coconut milk and the stock, slowly bring to the boil, then simmer for around 10 mins or until the potato is tender.

Stir through the coriander and serve with rice or naan bread