This Christmas I was treated to a full veggie/vegan xmas, with many nice bits but my fav was the stuffing, and thus here is the recipe:

ingredients

1 medium onion, finely chopped
1 packet (150g) of Asda meat free Lincolnshire sausage mix (the dark green packet)
1 packet (110g – 130g) of good quality stuffing, not too strong a flavour, and try and avoid sage stuffing as the sausage mix has that in it)
1 heaped desert spoon of veg suet (Atora light shredded vegetable suet)
1 teaspoon mild mustard
1 tablespoon soya cream
knife edge of Marmite
3 full size pieces of sun dried tomatoes in olive oil, finely snipped or chopped
Vegan parmesan
3 finely chestnut mushrooms, finely chopped ( if your sick and twisted . . . Yuck! )
salt and pepper
olive oil

1) Fry the chopped onion until softened
2) Make up the stuffing mix and sausage mix each separably as per packet instructions
3) Mix them all together with the sun dried tomato, suet, mushrooms, Marmite, soya cream, mustard, 1 desert spoon of Olive Oil, salt and peper
4) Put into oiled roasting dish
5) sprinkle with Vegan parmesan
6) Cook for 35 mins at 190 or until golden brown

You will have to forgive me for the terrible picture, but i had eaten nearly all of it before i remembered to take a picture 🙁

Old Comments

Ben Poole(28/12/2011 11:19:34 GMT)

Yes!

Mark Myers(28/12/2011 10:52:33 GMT)

there, corrected!!, happy now

Ben Poole(28/12/2011 09:48:18 GMT)

I’m assuming the sausage mix is veggie sausage??

Regardless, sounds good. I love a good stuffing.

As those who have to deal with me on a daily basis will tell you, I have a thing (bordering on an obsession) for little “packs” of stuff. One item I have been searching for for ages is a compact food pack that I can just leave in the bottom of my rucksack that would hold me or a loved one for 24 hours. All the ones I have found so far have been army packs, which are designed for living on for months and are huge or energy bars which ain’t filling and don’t have a balanced content. Added to this is the need for it to be vegan/vegetarian. A couple of days ago I found Seven OceanS standard Emergency Rations , which only those who have been unfortunate enough to be trapped in a lifeboat will have come across. They seemed perfect, so I ordered some, and opened a pack (as there doesn’t seem to be a review or proper details anywhere)

They come in a very traditional cardboard box, which contains a vacuum foil pack,

Open up the foil pack (it says you can rip it, but I had to bite it) and you find 9 grease proof “bars” wrapped in plastic

Each bar contains 2 biscuits, the biscuits taste vaguely sweet (sort of about the level of a digestive biscuit), they have the consistency of shortbread, I could quite happily eat them on their own, but they would equally go with most things from peanut butter to baked beans. My better half also tried them and said they were good.

The makers website does not contain much actual detail so I include the nutrition facts from off the box

All in all they are just right for my needs, an additional and far more practical use they could be put to is for the vegan/veggie lot, sometimes they are placed in a situation where you find very little suitable food to eat when travelling, and it would cost nothing to keep a pack in your luggage (my better half says they would make great vegan shortbread when there is only black coffee in the morning). It would be nice if the box had “once opened” instructions. The fact that they are low cost, about £5 for 9 bars (2500 calories) and have a shelf life of 5 years are excellent bonuses.

A feeble effort all round this week, don’t bother even reading

First person to win 250 squash games
Kieran: 50 Games
Mark: 79 Games
(1 point head start on a game for every 10 games the other person is ahead)
(we also play by “you have to WIN a game, genuine mistakes on game points are ‘let’ “)

Only 1 match played and we took it in turns to win games, and it seems even the case for points, if it wasn’t for the sweat soaked shirts and pain filled hobbling it would seem as if we are not trying

First person to loose 2 stone
Kieran ( Initially 15 Stone, 8 pounds) : 14′ 10″
Mark ( Initially 16 Stone, 8 pounds) : 16′ 7″

No fencing yet and no change in weight, the same this week for the evil Green, not helped by my parents both achevingting their ideal weight and looking fab, sod this I’m off for a take away

As the heat still blazes down on our delicate and youthful forms (we are under no circumstances sweating like pigs and running like camels) the great battle continues

First person to win 250 squash games
Kieran: 48 Games
Mark: 77 Games
(1 point head start on a game for every 10 games the other person is ahead)
(we also play by “you have to WIN a game, genuine mistakes on game points are ‘let’ “)

The strategy to beat Mr Green and his superior skill and shots has now finally been established, I have to wear outfits that are garish and in such poor taste that they hurt his eyes, and wear my fencing glove so i can hit the squash ball twice as hard (no slip grip), he in turn has worked out that he can run me into the floor then clean up on the later games, hmmmm

First person to loose 2 stone
Kieran ( Initially 15 Stone, 8 pounds) : 14′ 10″
Mark ( Initially 16 Stone, 8 pounds) : 16′ 7″

oh just go away, I’m just going to start fencing again, bugger this food lark (and that is after receiving some excellent advice by a fellow blogger), the only plus notes was that while by BMI is 28 my fat is 25%, so i have a normal (high end) fat percentage, so if i understand it right that means that i have a higher than average muscle content (keep dreaming, keep dreaming)

First person to win 250 squash games

Kieran: 41 Games

Mark: 66 Games

(1 point head start on a game for every 10 games the other person is ahead)

(we also play by “you have to WIN a game, genuine mistakes on game points are ‘let’ “)

We have now established that Mr green is the better player, and when hes on form I receive a savage kicking, however bloody minded malevolence and a evil heavy squash racket that can pop squash balls is JUST taking the day

First person to loose 2 stone

Kieran ( Initially 15 Stone, 8 pounds) : 14′ 10″

Mark ( Initially 16 Stone, 8 pounds) : 16′ 6″

no movement, nothing to see here please move on.