Vegetarian – Veggie Runners

Easiest Broccoli and Stilton Soup Ever

This is the easiest soup in the world to make. Really. Made from Bibi’s own recipe, it uses only three ingredients – yes, three! – and is at least 1000x better than any you can buy in the shops. Stilton cheese has its own website with loads of fascinating facts (really!) and this information on…

Sesame Baked Tofu with Aromatic Stir Fry

Photos by Zsolt – www.zsoltsandor.com One of our favourite restaurants in the whole wide world is Rebar in Victoria, British Columbia. We haven’t actually been everywhere in the whole wide world, of course, but we have been to this restaurant many times, mainly because a) it is wonderful and b) we used to live just up…

Beetroot, Feta and Pumpkin Seed Salad

(Photo taken by my lovely friend Elaina of Copenhagen blog Fint & Dejlig when she came to visit me in London). Beetroot can seem a bit scary in a Lady Macbeth looks-like-blood-down-the-plughole kind of way. But a) there are ways around this and b) the benefits of beetroot, particularly for runners, are well worth a…

Tofu Pho – What the pho? It’s Vietnamese noodle soup.

All over North America, there are restaurants that serve Pho, a Vietnamese noodle soup. And more often than not, they have a puntastic name (it’s said like our naughtiest swearword, without the ‘ck’ on the end) – “What the Pho” “Pho Sho” “Pho Shizzle”. So far, so good. (Who doesn’t love puns?!) But did I…

The Best Roasted Butternut Squash Ever

I wouldn’t say this is the best unless it were true. Mum and I ate this as part of our carbo-loading feast before the Blenheim Palace Half-Marathon last week and we were still going on about how good it was at about mile 10. Mum has begged me to get this posted asap so that…

Creamy Mushroom and Spinach Lasagne

This dish was invented by my good friend, Cathie, when she invited me for Sunday lunch one day. To be honest, she wasn’t planning on innovating. She rang me and said: ‘What time are you coming? The chicken’s nearly ready.’ ‘But I don’t eat chicken,’ I replied. ‘You do eat chicken!’ she said. ‘I’ve seen…

Stilton, Spinach and Quinoa Risotto

I used to have a bit of a problem with quinoa, bothered its unfamiliarity (we didn’t have quinoa in Middlesbrough when I was a girl) and its stupid pronunciation (I say that not in a xenophobic way; I just didn’t get it! Or is that what a xenophobe would say…?) Anyway, quinoa – ‘keen-wah’ –…

Aubergine and Spinach Curry

I’ve heard people say they don’t like aubergines but, on closer investigation (just call me Ace Detective Janey Dodge), it’s rarely the taste that they object to. It’s the texture that generally seems to be the problem. They’re either not soft enough and have a kind of rubbery, teeth-on-edge consistency, or they’re too mushy and…

Savoury Breakfast Muffins – Two Recipes in One!

So, you need breakfast in a hurry. You don’t fancy cereal or porridge and you’re not quite in the mood for toast. Oh, noooooooo, whaddya gonna do?! ‘s ok, we’re here to save the day. Our marvellous breakfast muffins are that rare breakfast treat that you can make the night before. I took a basic…

Mushroom and Sweet Potato Frittata

It being Better Breakfast Week in the UK, and maybe elsewhere in the world too, the best meal of the day has been on our minds a great deal. In truth, breakfast is on our minds a lot. We never go to bed without making sure that we have something good ready for breakfast in…

Vegan Strawberry, Tahini and Mint Smoothie

We Veggie Runners are decent people. At least, we think we’re relatively OK; nobody ever tells us otherwise, but maybe that’s because we’re so not OK that they daren’t… Anyway, for the purposes of this post let’s just assume that we are relatively nice. So, relatively nice people like us care about the environment and try to…

Scrambled Eggs with Basil and Black Pepper

Some dishes are much, much more than the sum of their parts and this is one of them. It seems simple enough – eggs on toast for breakfast, how tasty could you possibly make it without spending hours prepping and cooking? Well, this tasty, actually! This takes as long as making ordinary scrambled eggs – i.e….