I had a lovely head of cabbage in my veg box and decided to make Smitten Kitchen’s fuss free spanakopita, but swap cabbage for spinach and use rich smokey spices. For the spices, I used 1tsp smoked paprika, 2tsps of Dijon mustard, 1 tsp allspice, as much garlic as you like, and 1 tsp Aleppo…
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breakfast peppers
I had a few lovely long green peppers in my vegbox and I wasn’t quite sure what to do with them. I decided to stuff them with things I might like for breakfast and have stuffed breakfast peppers! What I did is get some vegan sausage and break them into tiny pieces and mix them…
broccoli pesto
In my vegbox was a lovely head of broccoli. One of the great ways to use some of the head and all of the stalk is to make a pesto. It is super easy and you can basically add the flavours you like. Here is what you do. Put your pasta to boil in a…
sweet potato mac and cheese
Sweet potatoes are always the last to get used in my veg box because I think I don’t like them even though I do, so I tend to scramble for a recipe. Today I tried Nigella’s sweet potato Mac n cheese. It is delicious. Is this my favourite Mac n cheese? Probably not. But it…
cheesy colcannon pies
When I moved here, I discovered colcannon and never looked back. I make it every single time I get cabbage or spinach or kale in my veg box. I often have some stashed away in the freezer for a potato emergency. Here is what I did. I fried up a diced onion until brown and…
slaw salad
Adventures with my veg box: Kohlrabi is something I had never bought or really heard of until I had a veg box. A number of my British and German friends just love it, and I can see why—it is a lovely crisp, mild, almost sweet brassica and makes for a nice coleslaw salad since my…
salsify, potato, and cheese puffs
Continuing on with my experiments with salsify, I decided to mash some with my veg box potatoes, spring onion, parsley, and cheese for some super fun puff pastry snacks, sorta like a good ol’ cheese and onion pasty. I think the salsify gives a bit of an exciting twist on the traditional cheese and onion…
potato puffs
Today I wanted comfort food. I decided to use my veg box potatoes (always a comfort), spinach (always gorgeous), and onions (always nice), to make something like a vegan sausage roll. Okay, it is nothing at all like a sausage roll. Basically this is yummy savoury zesty mash in puff pastry. Here is what I…
cabbage and leek pies
My veg box came with this season’s staples: cabbage and leeks. So I thought I would make a pie. I was looking for filo dough and little Tesco’s didn’t have any so I got some puff pastry. Inside is cabbage, leeks, feta, mustard, caraway seeds, dried spinach flakes, and Aleppo pepper. I think this would…
stuffed pumpkin
I had a tiny pumpkin from my veg box and saw some fabulous ideas on Instagram for using tiny pumpkins as roasting pots for yummy things. I decided to use mine as a roasting pot for my creamy baked leeks, since I had a bunch of leeks. Such a genius idea, because the pumpkin roasts…
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