Quorn

Quorn

Quorn is a great vegetarian alternative to meat; it tastes like meat, looks like meat, and has the same protein that you miss from meat. You can buy Quorn as chicken style chunks, mince, veggie sausages and a lot more. Go to http://www.quorn.co.uk/range/ for more Quorn products.

Cheese

Cheese

Most cheeses are vegetarian, but there are three I know that aren't, and there are more. There are vegetarian versions of all these cheeses, but most are made with animal rennet. The three cheeses that I know are parmesan (parmigiano reggiano), gorgonzola and grana padano. As I said, there are vegetarian versions of all these cheeses, but unless the packaging says it is vegetarian it probably isn't.

Vegetarian jelly sweets

Veggie Percy & Veggie Colin the Caterpillar Jelly Sweets

Everyone who is a fan of jelly sweets might be a bit disappointed with the choice of vegetarian jelly sweets. Not to worry though, for Marks and Spencers have made two new types of jelly sweets:  Veggie Percy, is the vegetarian alternative to Percy Pig jelly sweets, and have a green ear to distinguish them from the non-vegetarian Percy jelly sweets; and Veggie Colin the Caterpillars, as an alternative to Colin the Caterpillars sweets. These are both gelatine free and are vegetarian.

Strada

Strada
July 2012

Fresh olives, rosemary salt chips, margheritta pizza

When I entered the restaurant the atmosphere was lovely, the light was dim and music was playing quietly in the background. I was shown to my table straight away and was greeted with a warm glow of a candle and a menu. The waiter soon came back with a kids’ menu and fun pack, which involved colouring in and drawing. The toilets were impeccably clean, considering they were public toilets. Then we ordered drinks, after about 5 minutes the drinks were there, which I thought was incredibly quick service. The chairs weren’t as comfy as I would have liked them to be; although there were also leather sofas the chairs were made of wood and weren’t as comfortable. Then I ordered my starter of fresh olives and rosemary salt chips. The starters arrived even quicker than the drinks, the olives went in about 2 minutes, but the chips lasted throughout the meal. After we’d finished our olives we ordered our main; pizza. If you’re a child who feels extremely hungry (e.g. me) then I suggest you have the adult pizza, which is an absolute whopper (even I didn’t finish it). If you don’t get the adult portion, I’ve heard the child portion has just the same topping. The pizza arrived after about 10 minutes, a bit burnt, I tried a slice. It was a bit too crisp, and a bit too burnt, but it was full of flavour and the basil leaves were a lovely touch. As I said before, I didn’t finish the whole pizza, so for those of you who are like me get a doggy bag and take the pizza home.