No Croutons Required

To celebrate National Vegetarian Week, I am running a giveaway alongside No Croutons Required.

To enter the giveaway, leave a comment on the giveaway post.

To enter No Croutons Required, create a vegetarian soup or salad featuring the humble courgette or zucchini as it is sometimes known and submit it by the 20th June 2010.

This month we are going with Mexican cuisine. Make a vegetarian soup or salad Mexican-style and send us your entry. The winner will be awarded with a badge for their blog.

For this month's edition of NCR, I would like you to create a soup or salad suitable for vegetarians which features the allium family.

You may choose one or feature several. Choose from onions, shallots, leeks, spring onions, garlic or chives.

The theme for this month is chickpeas because chickpeas are probably my favorite legume and I can never get enough recipes ideas for the treasured garbanzo bean. Create a vegetarian soup or salad featuring chickpeas and send me your entry by the 20th of March.

It's a new month and a new challenge here at No Croutons Required.

I have named this round the Copycat Round, because I would like you to look at restaurant menus, find a soup or salad that is suitable for vegetarians and makes you think "Mmmmmmm!" and then come up with your own recipe for it.

The No Croutons Required challenge for January is to make a vegetarian soup or salad inspired by Thai cuisine. Lisa from Lisa's Kitchen will be hosting this month.

Happy New Year!

Jacqueline (Tinned Tomatoes)
Lisa (Lisa's Kitchen)

December is upon us again. I just don't know where the year goes, do you?

For this month's No Croutons Required I would like us to be frugal. So the challenge this month is to create a soup or salad using store cupboard ingredients. No nipping out to the shops, although you may pop out to the garden, if you are growing vegetables or herbs there. Have a look in your cupboards and fridge and see what you can come up with.

As the summer nears to an end and the cooler temperatures begin to set in, my thoughts go toward warmer climates. I've decided the challenge this month is to make a Mediterranean soup or salad. Please recall that this is a vegetarian event, so eggs and cheese are great, but no beef, fish or chicken.

Lisa
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No Croutons Required kicks off August with a challenge to make a soup or salad containing peppers. Sweet peppers, chilli peppers, bell peppers or any others you can think off. I have an idea for a pasta salad, but I look forward to seeing what you come up with.