Last night Pillars of Hercules was jumpin with the Tay Veggies! We hardly had our "signature dishes" on the tables when people arrived - as if out of nowhere! People, chatting, tasting, laughing, drinking and two talented guitarists playing great music!

People were tasting and getting recipes and talking about vegetarianism and getting a few more ideas about what to dish up to those veggy friends and family. We had a great time at Pillars and thanks to Bruce for being brave enough to let us in for the night!

We hope all the folks that came along enjoyed chatting to us as we did to them!

National Vegetarian Week really did happen for the Tay Veggies this year!

I thought you may like to hear what happened in my daughter's school for Vegetarian Week. Her school is Willows Primary School Timperley in Cheshire. I took a primary schools pack in a couple of weeks ago and the headteacher - Mrs Foster, seemed really pleased with it and promised to have a look and discuss what they could do with the cook - Mrs Jolly. Well I was delighted when my daughter came home from school with a letter saying that the school would be celebrating Vegetarian Week with lots of great food! Every day there were at least 2 vegetarian choices on the menu as well as the usual salad and baked potatoes. Choices included Bean and Pasta Bake, Lentil and sweet potato curry, Courgette,cheese and tomato pizza, Vegetable samosas, Bean-burgers rissoles and tomato sauce, vegetarian pasty with pan haggarty, vegetable lasagne, vegetarian chilli, and red onion and cheddar cheese quiche with cous cous.

I am always very happy for my daughter to have school meals as everything is cooked from fresh using fresh vegetables and very healthy choices but this week, the school really excelled themselves! The posters supplied in the pack were stuck up in the dinner hall and will be a permanent fixture and the lesson ideas were also used as my daughter happily reported! I was very interested to chat to the children to find out what they thought and so I went into school one lunchtime and took some photographs. Although the younger children were a little reluctant to try anything new, the kitchen staff were always keen to offer them a little taste of something new as well as their main dish to tempt them, which was nice. The older children seemed more open to try new things, but were also happy to ask for extras if spoilt for choice ;-) I asked lots of children what their favourite meals were and the overwhelming answers were - Macaroni Cheese and vegetarian lasagne! Veggies rule again!!!!!

A big Well Done! to the Willows Primary School and thank you for listening ;-)