Vegetarian Tartiflette recipe (Tartiflette végétarienne)
Seves 4-6
1-1.5 k potatoes (dependent on how hungry you are) sliced into rounds, and boiled for 10 minutes
2 tbs olive oil
200g sliced mushrooms
1 large onion, finely chopped
1 Tartiflette cheese (be careful of Reblochon and other AOC cheeses here in France, they are never vegetarian. You can find cheese for Tartiflette made with vegetable rennet (coagulant) in Intermarche. In the UK it is much more straightforward due to clearer labelling)
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
1 teaspoon of smoked paprika (optional)
1 teaspoon of dried mixed herbs
200ml single cream
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Heat the oil in a frying pan and cook the onions and mushrooms until lightly browned. Add the garlic and cook on a lower heat for about a minute, stir in the paprika. Turn off the heat and set aside.
Arrange half of the potatoes in the bottom of a lightly oiled lasagne dish. Put the mushroom, onion and garlic mixture on top. Season generously and sprinkle the herbs evenly over.
Put the remainder of the potatoes on the top and season again.
Pour over the cream. Slice the cheese into 1cm thickness strips and arrange on the top.
Cook for about 30 minutes until the cheese bubbles and starts to brown.
Serve with a large green salad or tomato and onion salad and a nice glass of chilled sauvignon blanc.
You may find this quite a heavy dish! We will be posting a recipe for a vegan potato gratin, which may be more to your taste.
This recipe was created by Andrea, chef at the vegetarian bed and breakfast 3 Place des Arbres, a luxury guesthouse, catering for vegetarians and vegans (and the veg-curious) in Creuse, Limousin, France. You can read more about why it was created here
French Vegetarian Bed and Breakfast helps make Fête a success!
For the first time a vegetarian option was provided at a fête in the beautiful Limousin market town of Felletin. Andrea, chef at 3 Place des Arbres, created a vegetarian tartiflette, which allowed both vegetarians and muslems the opportunity to come eat and party the night away!
10% of the dishes served were vegetarian (it is estimated that only 2% of the French population is vegetarian) and this did not include Bruce and Andrea, the owners of the vegetarian guest house.
“I was really pleased with the number of vegetarian tartiflettes we served,” Andrea said. “It just goes to show that there is a market in France for good vegetarian food. I think it surprised the other organisers of the Fête, not least because the people requesting the vegetarian option were French!”
The recipe for the tartiflette is available here.
3 Place des Arbres is a chambres d’hotes located in La Creuse, a beautiful, and undiscovered, part of France. It serves vegetarian and vegan meals, and welcomes all vegetarians, vegans and veg-curious people!
New networking site for veggies and vegans: vegppl.com
Calling all vegetarians, vegans (and all you veg-curious people out there). Why not check out the new social networking site vegppl.com. You can link it with your facebook and twitter accounts. Join up now!
You can find us on the site by clicking this link
3 place des arbres: Located in the beautiful “French Lake District”, the Plateau de Millevaches, this vegetarian bed and breakfast provides fantastic vegetarian and vegan evening meals, in the heart of France. Come to Felletin, a lovely market town in the Limousin region of France.
Royal Family goes vegan?
Well, no, not really… but as the Telegraph reports in the article Meat off the menu as Windsor Castle goes vegan yesterday Windsor Castle provided a totaly vegan banquet for 200 people for the first time ever.
3 place des arbres: Located in the beautiful “French Lake District”, the Plateau de Millevaches, this vegetarian bed and breakfast provides fantastic vegetarian and vegan evening meals, in the heart of France. Come to Felletin, a lovely market town in the Limousin region of France.
Oi! Un dîner presque parfait! Vegetarians DO NOT EAT FISH!
Elle n’est pas une végétarienne, elle est une Pesco-végétarienne
Elle n’est pas une végétarienne, elle est une Pesco-végétarienne. La végétarienne ne mange pas la viande, ni le poisson !
This is getting a bit tiresome (see my previous posts Vegetarians still eat fish… according to French Television and Do vegetarians eat fish?) but Un dîner presque parfait are still describing people who don’t eat meat as vegetarian, even if they eat fish.
This week features someone who describes themselves as vegetarian and they not only eat fish, but cook fish and organise a fishing competition!
As the Vegetarian society state:
Vegetarians don’t eat fish and they never have. Many things have changed since The Vegetarian Society was founded in 1847 but two important definitions haven’t:
“ VEGETARIAN” – someone who doesn’t eat animals
“ FISH” – cold-blooded, water-dwelling animal
The same definitions exist in French too! See the French Wikipedia entry for Pesco-végétarien
The problem is that when a vegetarian goes to a French restaurant they are offered FISH because people are perpetuating the myth that vegetarians eat fish.
Rencontres à l’île verte à Nantes 12/12/2009
Calling all vegetarians, vegans and those interested in good food! Why not be one of the first to sample the delights of a new vegetarian restaurant/tea room in Nantes? Contact Sabrina or read this page for more information.
3placedesarbres.com is a vegetarian B&B located in the “French Lake District”, in the heart of France. Felletin is a charming market town in La Creuse, in the undiscovered Limousin region of France. It easily accessible by train and bus as well as car and ‘plane. This charming guest house offers vegetarian and vegan evening meals (also lunches if required). We have an environmental policy, why not check it out?
06/11/2009, TOURS Rencontres végétariennes amicales
If you are in Tours on 6th November 2009, why not head off to CHEZ ANNIE » Salon de thé – Omeletterie (oeufs bio) et saladerie 53, rue du Grand Marché. – Tours (Rue située entre la place Plumereau et la Place de la Victoire).
There is a meeting for vegetarians and enviromentalists. Lots of information, lovely vegetarian food available and something to drink too!
Organised by l’association Végétarienne de France.
Why not visit 3placedesarbres.com. We are situated in the heart of France, in the “French Lake District”. Felletin is a charming market town in La Creuse an undiscovered part of France, but easily accessible by train and bus as well as car and ‘plane. This charming guest house offers vegetarian and vegan evening meals (also lunches if required).
Pique-nique végétarien au chaud
Are you in Lyon on 6th November 2009?
A picnic (held in a nice warm building!) has been organised by the Association Végétarienne de France and is being held on Friday 6th November at 7.30pm in Lyon. Bring something vegetarian to eat and 3 Euros to help cover the rental of the room.
See this page for further information
3placedesarbres.com: vegetarian and vegan meals in a luxury B&B in the heart of France. Come to the beautiful Limousin region and enjoy the wonderful countryside and fantastic vegetarian food.
Un Jour Sans Viande?
Back in July we asked When will France be ready for a meat free day?
Well, perhaps the answer is sooner than you might have thought. L’Association Végétarienne de France (the Vegetarian society of France) has launched a new campaign for Un Jour Sans Viande
The campaign includes a new website, and, this month they have written to the mayor of Paris to request a meat-free day, setting out in the letter all the benefits for health, the environment and the economy.
Check out the website and join the campaign!
3placedesarbres.com: enjoy vegetarian and vegan meals in the heart of France in this beautiful 18th century property, located in the Limousin Region
What’s going on in France on World Vegan Day?
If you are in Paris on 31st October 2009 why not pop along to 65 rue Caumartin 75009 Paris from 2pm
Vegan.fr have organised an event for World Vegan Day (1st November 2009). On Saturday 31st October at 65 rue Caumartin 75009 Paris from 2pm there will be lots of information available and 100%vegan food for your delights.
If you are organising, or know of, any other events in France for World Vegan Day why not email us or leave a comment and we can publicise it for you.
3placedesarbres.com vegetarian and vegan evening meals available in this luxury bed and breakfast, located in the heart of France (Limousin).
Vegetarian and Vegan France 