I had half a small fennel bulb left and some last legs carrots and celery, so I chopped them up sautéed them in a pan with a bit of onion olive oil. After about 7 mins or so, I added a can of tomatoes and a can of water and let it simmer for a…
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flower sprout mash
This week I had the mystery veg in my box: gorgeous purple flower sprouts! This is how my veg box people describe flower sprouts “Flower sprouts are a cross between curly kale and Brussels sprouts. The flower sprouts themselves are individual little ‘flowers’, effectively Brussels sprouts which have opened out and got a curly kale…
curried cabbage and potatoes
My veg box had a wonderful small cabbage and a couple of tomatoes, so I decided to try out Meera Sodha’s cabbage and potato curry. This recipe is easy and seriously satisfying. It isn’t terribly quick (it takes a while for all the parts to cook), uses spices that maybe not everyone has in their…
unexpected chowder
I still had a few Brussels sprout leaves to use up and some spinach, so I decided to make potato chowder, since I also had some onion to use up from my veg box. I used oat milk (any dairy would do) here and nutritional yeast and lemon juice to give it some tang, since…
not everything has to be hard salad
Sometimes things are just really hard and you don’t need food to be the hardest. My little co-op has exciting ready-to-eat grains in a bag. This salad features a pesto quinoa and wheat berry ready-to-eat bag of grains. I mixed the grains bag with a ready-to-eat mixed greens bag, some extra olive oil and lemon…
odds and ends shepherd’s pie
I was trying to decide what to do with the handful of random veg I had kicking around in my veg box (a medium parsnip, a couple of carrots, some brussel sprout leaves, leftover shredded lemony sprouts). Turns out, shepherd’s pie is a good place for random, lonely veg. Ingredients 300-400g of the protein you…
green toast
Still trying to convince myself that Brussels sprouts are awesome. Shredded sprouts sautéed with garlic, lemon, and sumac. I’ve used it as a topping for a very very green toast: smashed avocado, mixed greens, sautéed sprouts. Really this just involves cutting about a dozen Brussels sprouts finely and adding to a hot pan with some…
sprout top soup
My veg box had more sprouts, but this time the whole plant, so I set myself the task of figuring out what to do with leaves AND sprouts. This soup is the first experiment with cooking with the leaves: sprout leaves, the half dozen mushrooms from my box, tomato, rice soup. I sautéed an onion,…
easy chocolate chip cookies
These are my new favourite small batch chocolate chip cookies. They make a dozen big cookies, the perfect size for ice cream sandwiches. The dough is fine as make and bake, but even better if it rests overnight in the fridge. The original recipe by Tara O’Brady is here: https://www.taraobrady.com/recipes-in-full/2019/5/1/tara-obradys-basic-great-chocolate-chip-cookies The recipe below is for…
easy ice cream
If you have an ice cream maker (or the tiny one like me), this is the easiest ice cream ever. Is there better chocolate ice cream out there? Sure. But probably not this cheap and easy. It is 2 ingredients: chilled Oatley vanilla whippable custard and cocoa powder (not Dutch processed). I used somewhere between…
adventures with my veg box 