With good news of a new American president, I didn’t have any celebratory blue food for the democrat win, but my veg box did have a wonderful purple cabbage. Purple cabbage makes for a great and fast noodle bowl, so if you’re interested, here is what I did. I sliced my cabbage into thin ribbons,…
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courgette cake
Ottolenghi has some fabulous recipes for savoury cakes/loaves and I decided to use some of the beautiful courgettes/zucchini in my veg box to try out one. Normally, I stick to a recipe pretty faithfully, but this time I made a number of changes and they worked reasonably well. I decided to see if this could…
pear cake
As it happens, I am pretty allergic to apples, which makes this time of year a bit of a nightmare. Pears, in moderation, don’t seem to bother me, and have been getting some beautiful pears in my veg box. The problem is, because I do pears in moderation, they often build up and I found…
butternut squash pie
Happy thanksgiving! Continuing on with my butternut squash adventures, I roasted and puréed some butternut squash to make pie for thanksgiving. I wasn’t sure how it would go, but I had enough squash so that if it were a disaster, I could try again. That is the joy of the giant butternut squash. About a…
ancho chipotle butternut squash soup
This soup isn’t a looker, I know. But the verdict was, from the thanksgiving social distancing hikers, it was tasty. This week I got a giant butternut squash in my veg box, so I will be on a series of butternut squash adventures. I figured like everyone with butternut squash, I’d make soup. This was…
creamed corn with fresh tomatoes
My veg box arrived with some great corn and I decided to use part of it in a black bean soup and the rest I would make a bit of a cheat creamed corn. The incredibly talented Jocelyn Delk Adams has a blog called “Grandbaby cakes” with some outstanding Southern cooking and I decided to…
coconut potatoes and other stuff
This potato salad is a winner as long as you’re a fan of coconut and a whisper of curry. It is a play on Meera Sodha’s coconut potatoes which I really love and make all the time: https://www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/sides/coconut-potatoes It is amazing as is, but here I’m adding some purple carrots and diced courgette/zucchini from my…
potatoes and carrots
This week I had a bunch of really pretty bunch of purple carrots, a leek, and lovely little potatoes in my veg box. I decided to make some carrot top pesto for some pesto potato salad and roast up a couple of carrots with some of the leek for a topping on a open faced…
deconstructed bruschetta
I had an awkward amount of vine tomatoes from my veg box that needed to be eaten immediately. Too many for salad for one, but too few for tomato soup. I also discovered I had a stale ciabatta roll and figured maybe I could put them together in the oven as a yummy dish where…
radishes on toast
My veg box this week had lovely radishes which made me remember my friend Sarah telling me how lovely they are thinly sliced on toast with butter. I admit when I heard this, it seems like a sketchy plan, but turns out it is simple and absolutely delicious. Really. I also had a handful of…
adventures with my veg box 