alece

Looks liek I have started a bit of a debate here. Well most of the response seems to be fairly optimistic which can only be a good thing. Suppose the proofs in the pudding as the saying goes. Certainly got some food for thought from the comments, Sorry for the bad puns couldn't help myself but you get the picture.

Having a partner who eats very little meat due to not liking the texture I am quite used to cooking and adapting some of my favourite meals using vegetables, tofu, soya and quorn. Its just a matter of altering the ingredients from meat based ones etc to vegetarian ones. Any recipe can be altered to become vegetarian without loosing flavour. An example is spinach and bean shepherds pie, vegetarian winter casserole with chestnuts and even vegetarian haggis. I spend a lot of time browsing recipe books and websites and genrally just using my family as guinea pigs on anything that seems like a good idea.

And it will include vegetarian meals as beliec it or not we have quite a few traditonal vegetarian meals too. I would also be open to suggestions too if there are any meals someone is missing that they would like to have cooked, even trip and onions if the need arose.

I'm not talking surf and turf as this is exactly the kind of food that has given British cuisine a bad name, what I am talking about is more traditional, back to basics if you please. The kind of cooking that Grans and Great Gran's used to cook. What I'm talking about is the Mrs Beaton school of cookery complemented by a touch of traditional two fat ladies kind of meals. Modern English food I find bland and rather boreing but when you consider the likes of jugged hare and wild boar with sage along with the roast beef and yorkshire puds and also traditional festive lunch at christmas and maybe even to go abit north of the border haggis.

Hi all, I am moving to the Charente Maritime region ealry next year and have decided that the only option for finding work is to be self employed, so I have decided to fall back on my catering experience and am thinking about opening a English Restaurant. The restaurant will serve traditional English fayre, Fish and chips, beef wellington and sorry to say roast beef and yokshire puddings and maybe even full English breakfasts. However the bulk of the menu will be Traditional and home cooked. I was wandering if anyone new of any English restaurants already or if you have any comments please feel free to leave them here. Many thanks Alec