Newcastle Veggie Delights
Once we moved to Newcastle my husband (a Geordie veggie) introduced me to a few local veggie favourites. Stotties, cheese savoury and pease pudding.
Stotties are a type of bread roll, which is larger and flatter than a regular bread bun. In the North East, they are available from local bakeries. You can get them unfilled or filled with regular sandwich fillings or local favourites, like pease pudding and cheese savoury.

Cheese savoury does look a little like coleslaw, but that’s where the similarity ends. It’s a mixture of grated cheddar cheese, carrot, onion and salad cream or mayonnaise (or both, it’s a personal choice) with a little seasoning. It’s great in a sandwich, but my favourite is on a jacket potato all cheesy and melty. Yum!


Pease pudding is my next veggie favourite. You may remember the nursery rhyme
Pease pudding hot!
Pease pudding cold!
Pease pudding in the pot
Nine days old.
It’s also sold in most supermarkets and is now available is various flavours. Traditionally it’s yellow split peas boiled with a ham and seasoning and eaten in a stottie, with pickles. Everyone has their favourite way of eating pease pudding. The variety made by the leading manufacturers is now made vegetarian by using a vegetable stock. While shopping in a local food market I discovered Pete’s Puddin.


They make Original, Broon Ale, Black n Mite, Cheesy Peasey and Smokin Chilli. All are delicious, but my favourites are Cheese Peasey and the Smokin Chilli. Pease pudding is so versatile it can be eaten in many ways, I like it on rice cakes with a salad garnish. It’s great on toast too. The original and the Smokin Chilli are vegan and they others will be made vegan friendly in the future, excluding the Cheese Peasy.
I have to say I love pease pudding and I have tried all the flavours! It tastes great with a ‘ham’ meat alternative. Combined with a stottie and you have the perfect ‘lunch’. Or ‘Bait’ which is what it’s called in Newcastle.
