I had a lot of little bits and bobs leftover from my veg box to use up: ends of red and green peppers, some small potatoes, a few small sweet potatoes, a courgette/zucchini, onion, tomato, and a couple of carrots. Rather than a minestrone, I decided to give a peanut stew a try, because I…
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veg bolognese sauce
I had a variety of lovely veg in my veg box I thought would be nice in a bolognese sauce: carrots, red and green peppers, onion. This recipe uses a lot of veg including mushrooms, garlic, tinned tomatoes, and cauliflower. It gets added texture from nuts, and I used a combo of almonds and cashews…
beet and veg soup
This week I had an absolutely giant beetroot in my veg box. I decided to use some of the beetroot to make a veg soup, since I also had adorable fat, tiny carrots and a veg I had not heard of before called “salsify” which I was told tastes like artichoke, green beans, and some…
kale, potato, chickpea salad
I used to eat this all the time in the early years of my veg box because I was almost always guaranteed amazing kale and potatoes. I eventually started to use my kale and potatoes in other things, but I decided to go back to this favourite. It is simple and easy. I usually make…
gazpacho
Yah, this is one of those marmite things. Cold puréed tomato soup. You love it or hate it. I love it. I used 6-8 small/medium veg box tomatoes, a small cucumber and roasted red peppers (about the equivalent of one red pepper) gifted to me by a neighbour, 1-2 stalks of celery from the garden,…
late summer bowl
It has been very warm like summer the past few days and my veg box had lovely late summer veg like courgette/zucchini and green beans. I decided to sauté them with some of the lovely mushrooms from my box and also with a patty pan squash I was gifted from my neighbour (from her allotment)…
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…
broccoli soup
I think everyone probably has a broccoli soup recipe, but here is a vegan one I did that is creamy, gentle, and satisfying. It makes use of lovely veg box favourites (carrots, onions, potatoes, in addition to broccoli). It gets its zip from cashews blended up with some nutritional yeast. I didn’t use stock, just…
sweet potato, aubergine, spinach curry
I had a lovely small aubergine/eggplant in my veg box and some sweet potato and spinach to finish, so I decided to make a quick curry. This was easy and a nice way to use up some leftovers, including 1/3 can of tomatoes. Here is what I did. I chopped a small onion and set…
carrot and broad bean salad
I had a lot of gorgeous carrots in my veg box, so I decided to try out David Lebovitz’s French grated carrot salad recipe I had seen a million years ago that I thought looked good. And it was really good. It was also super easy and really nice with some young broad beans from…
adventures with my veg box 