Virtual Lunch Club – Tuesday 25 October

Join us via Zoom for V for Life's next virtual lunch club, Tuesday 25 October at 1pm. Our bake-off themed lunch club will be hosting it's very own pastry week with these tasty filo pastry showstoppers.

Check out the recipes below, buy your ingredients and cook the dishes on the day ready for the lunch club at 1pm.

Spinach Pie

M’hancha

For the spinach pie:

• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, chopped
• 400g/14oz frozen spinach (thawed)
• 150g/generous 5oz firm smoked tofu, chopped
• 100g/3½oz vegan feta, chopped
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
• 75g/2½oz pine nuts, toasted (optional)
• Salt and pepper
• 4 filo sheets
• 10g/1/3oz vegan margarine, melted

For the M'hancha:

• 8 sheets of filo pastry (leave these in the packet until ready to use)

For the filling

• 100g/3½oz vegan margarine, melted
• 50g/1¾oz caster sugar
• 50g/1¾oz glacé cherries, chopped
• 100g/3½oz ground almonds
• Zest and juice of one orange
• 75g/generous 2½oz orange marmalade
• 150g/scant 5¹⁄3oz mixed nuts chopped and lightly toasted
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• ¼ tsp mixed spice Garnish
• A little icing sugar
• A few chopped nuts

Garnish

• A little icing sugar
• A few chopped nuts

Talk cookery, recipes and more, and meet likeminded people from across the UK.

If you'll struggle to cook on the day, feel free to join with a cup of tea or whatever you're having for lunch that day. Or just pick one of the quicker recipes and prepare that.

Open to vegetarians, vegans and meat reducers aged 65 and over.

Email ellie@vegetarianforlife.org.uk to find out more, or to book your place and get the Zoom link and password. Or call the VfL office on 0161 257 0887.

If you're on Facebook don't forget to join the virtual lunch club group here.

If technology and Zoom in particular are new to you, and you need technical advice visit https://www.abilitynet.org.uk/ or call 0800 048 7642. (Please note that this number is in no way related to V for Life, and AbilityNet will have no knowledge of the lunch club.) You could also email enquiries@abilitynet.org.uk for help.

If you're already tech savvy, all you'll need to do is open the Zoom link in your internet browser and join the meeting. Make sure that your audio and video are switched on. We'll be happy to talk you through all of this on the day or in advance.