Ingredients:

• 10 middle Mozarella balls
• 500 grams tomatoes
• some basil (only leaves needed)
• 3 tbsp white vinegar
• 4 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp mustard seeds
• 2 tbsp pine nuts
• salt, sugar, and freshly ground pepper to taste

Slice each Mozarella ball into halves. Slice tomatoes into two or four pieces (depending on their size). Mix them together.

For marinade: blend olive oil, mustard seeds, salt, and pepper. Add some sugar if you like.

Fry nuts, and let them cool.

Place Mozarella and tomatoes onto a plate. Pour them with marinade. Then sprinkle nuts and basil leaves.

Ingredients:

• mashed potatoes
• mushrooms
• 3 tbsp flour
• 2 onions
• 1 egg (or its vegan equivalent)
• vegetable oil

Fry mushrooms with onion and let them cool. To mashed potatoes add the flour and egg, and mix well. ‘Pastry’ has to be sticky. Divide it into balls, put some mushrooms inside of each one, and pinch together the edges. Thus you get pasties. Before serving fry them from both sides.

Serve hot or cold – as you wish.

Just mashed potatoes with fried mushrooms would not be so tasty, right?

You know that if you just turn on your imagination you can make even very simple vegetarian meals look romantic and show your feelings in such way. By the way cooking is a way to express tender feeling not only for women but fir men as well. I would say especially for men who didn’t use to cook in general but who really want to make this evening special and surprise their girls.

By the way this holiday is a great chance to join vegetarianism (if you still haven’t) just to show how much you love someone.

And both of these tow groups of people feel comfortable in attitude to each other because at solemn occasions people hardly pay attention to what the rest is eating, they are more interested in what’s happening around rather than in food.

But when a dinner is limited to a small number of people (such as five or seven), and some of them vegetarians and some are meat-lovers the latter sometimes feel uncomfortable. And you know why? Because they think that they make vegetarians they dinner with feeling uncomfortable. Funny, right? Vegetarians in their turn can treat this in different ways. People are so strange animals…

If you also feel uncomfortable in the described situation then why don’t you think of becoming a vegetarian?

Ingredients:

• beetroot
• carrot
• potato
• pickles
• onion
• canned beans
• cabbage
• olive oil
• salt to taste

The first three ingredients have to be boiled and cooled in advance. Slice them in cubes. Slice pickles in the same way. Add shredded cabbage, then beans and oil. Salt to taste.

Serve cold.

The amount of each ingredient is optional. It totally depends on your preferences and on how much of them you have at hand.

If you want to make your beetroot salad unusual – serve it in unusual way…

There are so many types of grapes that you can hardly believe it (most of us can only distinguish red grapes from white ones), but not all of them are good and tasty for eating. Some are grown specially for making wine. For some countries this fruit is the main source of making money. People there grow grapes, make wine, and sell it out.

Grapes can be eaten raw or used for making jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, drugs, wine, grape seed extracts, raisins, and grape seed oil. The last two ‘products’ are often used in vegetarian meals mostly in bakery and desserts.

Do you know any good recipes using grapes? Please share!

• 1 cup strawberry
• 2 middle-sized bananas
• 1 orange
• 1 apple
• 1 cup cherry
• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 1/2 cup yogurt
• 1 tbsp sugar

Wash all fruits. Slice orange into pieces, apple and bananas into cubes, strawberry into four parts.

Take a bowl and mix all the ingredients in it. sprinkle with sugar and yogurt.

Use strawberry for decorating the salad on top. Serve cold.

Of course one of these foods is chocolate. It contains ‘hormones of happiness’ and indeed helps people feel emotionally and physically better.

This effect of food is one of the basic reasons why business people have their important meetings, negotiations, and contracts signing at restaurants. It’s a fact that full business partners are more likely to agree with you unlike in case when they are hungry. Full person is a happy person who is calm and open for your offers.

If your business partners are vegetarian then why don’t you arrange a meeting at a vegetarian restaurant where they can enjoy their favourite vegetarian meals and feel comfortable. In case you have friendly and close relations with your business partners you can also order a dinner from a vegetarian food delivery service which you have already tried out by yourself. It would be also nice.

• 500 g pumpkin
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup soy milk
• 3 tbsp sugar
• 1 cup rice
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 cup raisins

Slice the pumpkin into pieces, place them in a pan with 1/2 cup hot water, and cook for 15 minutes.
Add milk, cooked rice, and sugar, and simmer for 20 minutes more. In the meantime heat the oil and make the raisins swell in it. After that add it all to rice and pumpkin and stir well. In 3 minutes take off from heat. Serve hot.

• 450 g different mushrooms
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 onion, sliced
• 300 ml soy milk
• 850 ml hot vegetable stock
• 8 pieces of bread crisps
• 2 garlic cloves
• 50 g vegetable butter
• 75 g Swiss cheese, grated
• salt and pepper to taste

Heat the olive oil and fry the onion for 34- minutes till it’s golden brown. Slice mushrooms into small pieces. Add them to onion and stir all the time. Add milk and make it all boil; cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Then slowly add hot vegetable stock. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Grill the bread. Spread pieces with butter which is already mixed with garlic. Place two pieces into each of four plates; pour the soup on top of them, and sprinkle with grated cheese.

Serve immediately.

Makes 4 servings.