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• Recipes
• Making any Recipe Vegan
• Notes for Chalet/Hotel Hosts and Managers
• Staff Training
• Is it vegan?

Recipes are listed under breakfast ideas, starters, mains, sides and sauces, desserts and cakes. However, ideas can be mixed around between courses. More recipes will be added to each section as time goes on.

All recipes listed here are suitable for both vegetarians and vegans and anyone else who likes good food. You will also find them particularly handy for those on religious and healthy diets.

• Vegetarian Breakfast Ideas
• Recipes: Cakes and Biscuits
• Recipes: Starters and Snacks
• Recipes: Main Dishes
• Recipes: Sides and Sauces
• Recipes: Desserts

I'm also building a page of links to recipe sites I'd recommend.

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And if these aren't enough, here are some links to more recipes.

Nearly any recipe can be made into a vegan version. It's great fun trying this out.

A vast variety of foods are vegan, including widely available vegan dairy products, egg and meat substitutes for direct replacement in your cooking.

Our very own simple veganising guide shows you how.

Once you've got your head round it and are over the shock, catering for vegetarians and vegans is not that hard at all. Catering well is what will bring us back again and again, as vegan loyalty is huge - we vote with our stomachs!

Here are some key tips to help set your mind in gear before going on to the recipe ideas.

• First see our ingredients list. It includes items to buy in the UK before the season (extending your range and lowering your costs), and what special ingredients to look out for locally. It also has a definition of what is vegan.
• Also look at our veganising recipes page, for simple conversion of your non-veggie recipes to veggie and vegan versions
• A hand blender is an essential item.
• All recipes here are for approximately 4 people unless stated, depending on how you serve them. Vegans eat a lot, so err on the side of double portions!
• All dishes here are vegan, though most people won't realise that when eating them, and thus are suitable for all your clients.
• These recipes are only the tip of the iceberg, but we hope they open your eyes to the possibilities of vegan catering. Once you get the hang of it you won't be resorting to a tomato sauce, ratatouille or fruit salad.

Catering for vegetarians and vegans is an important part of staff training, and your chalet hosts will be very grateful for it. If you are a posh chalet with trained chefs, you'll be helped a lot if they've done some training at the Cordon Vert school. With the right backup, such as these pages, untrained chalet hosts can also do an excellent job for vegetarians and vegans.

From our experience your veggie guest will be best off with either Cordon Vert training or a chalet host with no professional training at all. A professional chef with no vegetarian cookery training can lack the humility to learn something new, though those with imagination can be wonderful exceptions. Some of our most hearty skiing meals have been provided by chalet hosts with just the standard start-of-season training and good support and vegan recipes from their managers and guests.

It really helps to include in your training sessions:

• the definition of vegetarian & vegan (err on the stricter side so more peple are covered)
• what ingredients to buy, and which you've brought from the UK
• example vegan recipes they can use on all guests, such as a cake and a satay sauce.
• what resources you have available for them and who they can turn to for advice (try us).

Slack weeks are a great time to try ot recipes for guests later in the season, and to check wich ingredients your big supermarkets have.

For clues on what is vegan, refer to the vegan definition on the ingredients page.

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