Mushroom Irish Stew (with vegan stout!)

This Mushroom Irish Stew (The Simple Veganista) uses mushrooms to replicate meat in this famous Irish dish. Packed with filling potatoes, veggies and herbs, this is a simple ‘pour everything in a pot and cook it’ recipe, with optional vegan Worcestershire sauce (no fish) to bring the flavours out.

Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets (mushrooms, onion and garlic are unsafe near animal friends).

Just bin allium scraps (leeks, onion, garlic, chives, shallots), as acids could harm compost creatures (same for citrus/tomato/rhubarb).

Choose Artisan Vegan Stouts

This recipe uses Guinness (which is now vegan-friendly) but if you wish, you could use an artisan English stout like Shoreham Stout (brewed in Brighton) or Stroud Brewery. Alcohol-free vegan stouts include Check This Stout or Sober Brummie.

Guinness is not even Irish! The company is now owned by a big multi-national. But was founded by a man who was anti-Catholic (though to be fair, he did use profits to build peace). But when Ireland became independent, he would not let the new government use the harp logo, as he’d already taken it!

So the government simply turned the harp to face the other way. If you look closely, you’ll notice that the harp on the Irish government logos does indeed face the opposite direction, to the Guinness one!