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…
Tag: chili
very orange soup
Soup is a good way to use up random bits and bobs that you don’t know what to do with. This soup is a result of all my orange bits and bobs from my veg box: some carrots, half a sweet potato, one lonely potato (who isn’t orange, I know), and a small pile of…
bad photo soup
Easy soup, bad photography. I’m not sure why my green/olive soup ended up looking so orange in this photo, but oh well.Here is the thing. You can make a complicated, delicious, non-dairy cream soup that is fantastic with a million ingredients. And they are super great. You can also make a reasonably good and simple…
speedy rice
I was the happy recipient of some gorgeous purple kale in my veg box that was almost too pretty to eat. I sautéed it with a small leek and then added some rice. I made a dressing out of tahini, hot water, lemon, salt, and a new chili pepper powder for me—isot (or Urfa Biber)…
starting with sweet potato
My veg box people gave me sweet potatoes that looked like fingerling potatoes. I think they are kinda great because they are sort of small, which is good for one person who doesn’t really like sweet potatoes. I know, who doesn’t like sweet potatoes? It is not that I hate them, they just aren’t my…
adventures with my veg box 