Vegetarian food and drink
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Anna Jones’s recipes for two winter piesAnna Jones’ pie recipes: To warm you through this wintry month, top a spiced lentil pie with comforting mash or cover a hearty vegetable and cheese pie with crisp celeriac rosti -
Anna Jones’s recipes for Valentine’s DayThe modern cook: Eschew the elaborate cliches and keep Valentine’s Day a straightforward – but delicious, and plentiful – affair with spaghetti and squash ‘meatballs’ and chocolate pots -
Ride out the crisis with homegrown vegVeg crisis: Blighty’s supermarkets are in crisis. Heavy rains and frost in Spain and Italy mean courgettes and iceberg lettuce are running low. The lesson? To cook with the bountiful produce of Britain’s cold climate: brassicas, roots and alliums
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Anna Jones’s recipes and tips for cooking with grains and seedsAnna Jones recipes: Grains are affordable, nutrient-rich and have a long shelf-life, just waiting to plump up a carrot and harissa salad, or add depth and bulk to this all-green miso soup
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Anna Jones’ aromatic curry pastes perfect for freezingAnna Jones recipes: Learning how to pack aromatics and spices into a pungent paste for freezing is a perfect way of adding an instant hit of peppery heat and punchy flavour to your winter curries
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Telling porkies: German MP attacks vegetarian products with meaty namesAgriculture minister Christian Schmidt calls for ban on labels like ‘vegan curry sausage’ that he says are ‘misleading and unsettling’ for consumers
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Anna Jones’s vegetarian recipes for Christmas leftoversAnna Jones Christmas recipes: With a clever makeover, leftover green veg, nuts and fruits can be turned into something new and celebratory the next day ...
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Meat-eating is indefensible, cruel and unhealthy. So why is a near-vegetarian like me having steak for my festive meal?Christmas, the season of goodwill to all people and cruelty to animals
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Anna Jones’s party recipes for noodle bowls and dumplingsAnna Jones recipes: It’s party time, and where there’s drink, there should be food – which must be friendly, fresh and flavoursome, like these little peanut noodle bowls and mini squash dumplings
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Hellmann's aims to woo flexitarians by branding its mayo as veggieUnilever is adding a vegetarian logo to 500 products, including Flora and Hellmann’s by the end of 2017 to boost interest among flexitarians
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Anna Jones’s recipes for making porridge more interestingAnna Jones recipes: There’s more to porridge than plain old oats, and you’re missing out if that’s all you eat for breakfast. Apples and maple butter, or a chocolate and pear combo, are guaranteed to sweeten the day. Who cares if that upsets tradition?
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Five Christmas recipes from Nigel SlaterPotato pancakes, partridge pie and fig ice-cream terrine: dishes to make and eat any time over the Christmas season
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Anna Jones’ recipes for quick polenta bakes made two waysAnna Jones recipes: Whether baked slowly or finished off under the grill, polenta loves subtle spices, creamy butter and cheese and it’s perfect with earthy mushrooms and bitter radicchio ...
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Anna Jones’ recipes for whole roast squash and baked cauliflowerAnna Jones recipes: Serve up whole veg, crisp, golden and straight from the oven, for a wonderful meat-free centrepiece. Try a selection of squash stuffed with cereals or a savoury cauliflower baked in turmeric and coconut
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How to create a great bowl-based recipeAnna Jones recipes: Bowl food: unfussy, fast, adaptable meals you can eat on your lap with a spoon. Start with a favourite grain, build comforting combinations around a base flavour, then finish with a killer dressing
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There are compelling reasons to forgo meat – but it’s delicious. Campaigns such as Meat Free Monday show a realistic way forwardStop telling me not to eat meat: we should all be flexitarians
Forget five a day, eat 10 portions of fruit and veg to cut risk of early death