I know, it seems way too hot to turn on your oven today. However, I had some nice onions and potatoes in my veg box, a bunch of herbs in my pandemic garden, and this little carton of Oatley single cream I’ve been wanting to try, so I thought I’d do some scalloped potatoes/potatoes au…
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pink pasta
I decided to tackle the giant beet in my veg box today. I do like beets, but I recognised that describing them as “earthy” isn’t always a compliment to beets. For some people, you’re really just eating splendid pink dirt. This pasta dish is a play on a recipe by Anna Jones and its virtue…
lockdown tabbouleh
I had stunning lemons and some gorgeous tomatoes in my veg box, as well as a whole lotta curly parsley to use up, since I just got some beautiful flat parsley in my veg box this week, so I decided to try my hand at tabbouleh using what I had in the kitchen: 2 bunches…
asparagus on toast
I had some really lovely parsley in my veg box this week and I thought it would be nice with a bit of asparagus. Here is what you do. Heat a pan with some oil on medium/high. Pop in the asparagus, some salt and pepper, and garlic (powder or fresh). Sauté for a minute or…
parsnip potato soup
This week I had some really lovely parsnips in my veg box so I decided to make some soup. This nice creamy soup is an easy one that comes together with 2 big parsnips chopped, a big potato chopped, half an chopped onion and some olive oil, salt and pepper in a big pan in…
scottish cream of mushroom soup
If you have mushrooms and onions in your veg box this week and feel like you might want a bit of booze in your soup, this might be the soup for you! You need an onion, garlic of some form (I used garlic powder), salt, pepper, a bunch of mushrooms, about 500ml of stock, booze,…
leftover bread salad part two
Ignore the giant slices of sourdough toast, I’m on the sourdough baking train with countless others in lockdown kitchens everywhere. I did make another leftover bread salad with leftover bread from a different loaf (I might have a wee baking obsession at the moment). I’ve been so lucky to have loads of gorgeous greens in…
antipasto leftover bread salad
If you are like me, and maybe have some leftover bread that you might need a use for, here is an idea: bread salad! So there are loads of recipes for panzanellas out there and I didn’t exactly have the ingredients for any of them. However, the idea seemed to be take some old bread,…
veg box pasta soup
This tried to be minestrone, but you work with what you’ve got and I didn’t exactly have all the minestrone stuff. I have to say, I’m lucky because my veg box provides a lot of great things for yummy soup! If you’re interested in a pasta veggie soup, this soup has 5 basic parts: 1….
my favourite vegan bolognese sauce
My veg box this week had a cauliflower which made me think about making a batch of my favourite bolognese sauce. Look, if you’re hoping this is gonna taste like the meaty deliciousness made by some Italian grandmother, it will disappoint. However, it is full of veg, has the right mouthfeel for bolognese sauce, and…
adventures with my veg box 