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…

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…

shredded sprouts

This week I have a bag of Brussels sprouts. I won’t lie, they aren’t my favourite, no matter how cute they look. Today I decided to slice finely a dozen or so sprouts, and pan fry them in olive oil, a teaspoon of garlic powder, and about 1/2 teaspoon each of smoked paprika and ancho…