Maybe you are a vegetarian, just looking for a few new ideas? Or are you having vegetarian friends over and are wondering what you can make them?

Our vegetarian recipes are all based on simple techniques – you can incorporate them into any meal plan and be confident they will please even the most fervent vegetarian sceptics among your guests!

We provide lots of tips on "growing your own", it is much easier than you think - if you are pushed for space, have a look at our square foot gardening techniques!

This website came about because we wanted to share our experiences and recipes with you from our healthy food business which we had a great time taking to events and festivals! Time rolls by, and new opportunities arise – my latest adventure is just about to begin, and I would love to share it with you! I am taking over as Food Service Manager at the Scottish Deer Centre Café. This time I will be working with both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food – the café is family-friendly, set in the heart of the beautiful Fife countryside, and aims to cater for everyone – to follow us on our journey, and to see all of our recipes, just follow this link which will take you to the new Scottish Deer Centre Blog! 'Visit the Scottish Deer Park and sample our food'

On these pages, you will find easy soup recipes, easy bread recipes, picnic ideas, and so much more!

There are pages where you can add your own recipe contributions, and comment on any of the recipes you have tried – we’d love to share your photos and nostalgia from the past.

Sometimes it's great to get back to the simplicity of how we used to live - very little money - no convenience food back then - you had to cook your dinner or starve!

Vegetarian recipes can be part of every meal – we are constantly being warned of the dangers of eating too much red meat and new trends are for things like “Meatless Mondays”! We think you can go further than that – and make meat the exception rather than the rule!

If you are artistic, why not try your hand at our colourful patchwork pizzas? ! Use our easy bread recipe for the base, then add lots of tasty colourful vegetables – arrange them in squares to really get the most out of the amazing variety of shapes, colours and textures nature provides! These are always a winner when we have friends and family over for dinner!

Our easy bread recipe technique takes all the work out of bread-making – just one trip to the store for ingredients, 5 minutes mixing and you have enough dough to turn into lots of tasty pizza, flatbreads, naan bread and artisan loaves of your choice!

Another fun idea to consider next time you are planning a get together with your friends or family is to lay on an English High Tea ! This is especially delightful for entertaining older members of the family – those who remember when life went by at a more leisurely pace, and everyone had time for a relaxing cup of tea and a scone in the late afternoon!

Over the years, we have collected together an eclectic mix of vintage china which can be mismatched and mixed together to create a lovely table array! Just wait for a spell of fine weather and cover any old table with a simple gingham cloth – then have some fun with wild flowers in pretty jugs - Just add some of our easy cake recipes and high tea sandwiches for a memorable afternoon in the garden.

This website is a celebration of vegetarian recipes, but it goes further than that, celebrating the past, and embracing the present when life has become so busy, and many of us have little time to do as much home cooking as our mothers and grandmothers did – still we long for their simple approach to feeding their families with nutritious tasty food. Our easy vegetarian recipes will tick all the boxes and can be used on their own, or to accompany other foods if meat-eaters abound in your family!

As you browse this website you will come across a few surprises! Recipes are squeezed in all over the place - we have pages about growing zucchini (courgettes) for instance, and you will come across great recipe ideas to help with the inevitable glut, as well as links to places where you can learn to dehydrate food, or how to make chutney!

The site is packed with all the latest news on major food issues, like food safety, raw foodism, vegan news, gluten-free food, as well as a look at wine, cider, and of course Scottish whisky!. We explore home baking, bread-making, cooking with herbs(and growing them!) and how to ring the changes with sugar and spice! We highlight some award winning recipes, and present them for you to try, as well as looking at healthy lunch, breakfast and main meal ideas!

Ever wondered which are the best foods for women? Or indeed the best foods for men?

What about detox foods and foods that help with stress? Nature has a wonderful array of health health-giving foods in her larder - it really is amazing how many hidden benefits there are once you start researching it - vitamins, minerals, fibre, anti-oxidents - all there hidden inside some of the most delicious fruits and vegetables you have ever tasted!

Seasonal food is discussed as well and we encourage you to look at what's in season, what's local and how to use it all in your recipes!

You will also find great tips on growing your own – lots of vegetable garden tips to make it easy for you to discover- as we have - the absolute joy of bringing something fresh from your plot to your plate – from welly to belly so to speak!

So read on for a celebration of free vegetarian recipes, news and fresh ideas to enhance and improve your cooking skills!

The recipes are a hotch-potch of the original, the borrowed and the stolen. I am not claiming that all the recipes are my own original inventions - some of them are, but some are adapted from others, some are passed down through families, and some are contributed by dear friends! All of them are here to help you see how creative, and tasty vegetarian recipes can be - we hope you enjoy your visit!

you will also find recipes from other parts of the world, most notably some great contributions from out guest Spanish Chef - visit him at spanishchefblog.Read also his impressions of this website at spanishchefblog

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