Malaysian Pickle - Quick, Low Allergy Acar

As mentioned in a previous post, I decided my life wasn't busy enough so I've started to volunteer at the local Beaver scout group. This has been great fun and with a group of friends its been fun to have a bit of input into what we get up to each week. 

A few weeks ago one of my friends and I got to plan out the lesson on healthy eating. This is a subject I'm quite passionate about and really enjoy getting my own children to help with food. We were constrained a bit though, having fourteen 6-8 year olds cooking at the same time would be hard work and having enough facilities to keep them all occupied would be nearly impossible!

A Low Meat Summer

I always used to joke with guests that there was a vegetarian option in our house - they could #@$* off!

But our ideas on food have been changing a lot lately. 

We've not been basing our meals around the item of meat we have with it. Instead we've been looking at what vegetables we've got and going from there. The internet is great for ideas, as are other blogs and recipe books.  

So now when we sit down for tea we're not saying it's such-and-such meat with veg for tea, we're making a much bigger deal about he veg we're using. 

It's been a great few months eating like this, although I'm not sure our butcher would agree.

What's everyone's favourite vegetarian meal?  Mine is either my wife's tomato tatin (posted on here last week) or a peach and chickpea curry from "A girl called Jack" cookbook.