Recent Posts – Veggie Runners

Tofu Tikka Masala

I strongly believe that cuisine is like language – living, and ever changing. Orthodoxy has no place in my kitchen. The quest for “the authentic ratatouille/baba ganoush/tikka masala” is not that interesting. I’d prefer to have the best one! Besides, playing by the book is not as much fun as a bit of experimentation. (I…

Is Milk The Ultimate Sports Drink?

Image from www.shapesense.com The Author: Paul Harlow is conducting PhD research on post-exercise rehydration at Leeds Metropolitan University. For more information on this topic, you can contact him at: p.harlow@leedstrinity.ac.uk Don’t wait till you’re thirsty! Drink 2 litres a day! Don’t just drink water! Cut out caffeine! Athletes and everyday exercisers alike have been bombarded with…

Vegetarian Kedgeree with Smoked Tofu

Training can be hard work but it also provides a great excuse to get creative with tasty, runner- friendly dinners, such as this vegetarian twist on a classic kedgeree. Traditional kedgeree uses smoked fish. Traditional vegetarian kedgeree doesn’t used smoked anything. Upshot? Vegetarian kedgeree is usually rubbish. Sad but true. Not this time, though! No, no,…

Prashad Vegetarian Restaurant – Review

As you know, we’re big fans of exciting vegetarian dishes. We’re also very fond of a good curry. So when Prashad, an Indian vegetarian restaurant just outside of Leeds, invited us to sample their wares we were, to put it mildly, deeee-flipping-lighted. Prashad is not just any old restaurant, it’s one of Britain’s best. It was…

The Murder Mile – Interview with Author Paul Collicutt

You know we love running, but were you also aware that we’re big fans of graphic novels too? Imagine our delight when we discovered that the two are not mutually exclusive. ‘The Murder Mile’ by Paul Collicutt is a murder mystery set amid the intense rivalry of the battle to run the first 4-minute mile….

Running Mix – The Bricks That Built My House – Anna Wall

We’re happy to add DJ Anna Wall’s ‘The Bricks That Built My House’ Mix to our Veggie Runners Running Mix collection – she’s a woman in demand! In the three years she and I were at university together in Newcastle, she’s rocketed from playing fantastic beats that made everybody move in my living room to playing the…

Cabbage and Caraway Soup

When I was a Veggie-Toddler, my mum used to make something for me with caraway. At least, I’m sure of it, because when I started frying this up, I had a Proustian moment, and the earthy smell transported me back our our teeny flat where I had stuck Babar transfers wherever I thought she wouldn’t…

Date and Sultana Cake

Photo by Zsolt: zsoltsandor.com Everybody loves a slice of cake now and again, right? Cake’s great. What’s not so wonderful is all the refined sugar that most cakes contain. So when we discovered date syrup, we were in seventh heaven. It’s 100% natural, made of nothing but dates and, well, you could say it’s like sunshine…

Aubergine and Pomegranate Stew

I’m not a big one for faffing about with fancy ingredients. Fresh is great, trendy not so much. Then I came across a bottle of pomegranate paste in a Middle Eastern food shop and had to have a word with myself. OK, I thought, these things might be fads for TV chefs but they’re staples…

Runners and Community after the Boston Marathon 2013

Running at its simplest ought to be a very solitary sport. The book isn’t called ‘The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner’ for nothing. You have no team, you have no shared uniform. Most practice is done alone. Unless you’re running a relay or a three-legged-race, your endeavours make no difference to the success of…