I’m still working through the beautiful courgette/zucchini in my veg box when Smitten Kitchen’s “Zucchini butter spaghetti” popped up on my Instagram feed and I thought I’d give it a go. This recipe fits firmly in the great comfort food category. It isn’t the meal that will blow your socks off, but it is a…
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roasted mushroom ragout
I had a few big meaty mushrooms in my vegbox so I decided to do a small size version of Noor Murad’s delicious mushroom ragout. It is a simple and satisfying dish that involves roasting mushrooms and onions, then adding a purée of tomatoes and spices, and then roasting it all some more. Because I…
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…
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….
creamy pasta
I had a really lovely courgette/zucchini this week, so I used part of it and some of the mushrooms in my box to make a creamy lemon, courgette, mushroom pasta using oatmilk.Turns out you can make a béchamel sauce using non-dairy spread, flour, and oatmilk, pretty much the same way you would make it with…
pantry pasta
Easy pantry dinner when you don’t have much around except cherry tomatoes. Baked tomatoes with a hefty glug of olive oil, garlic, salt, lemon pepper, Aleppo pepper, dried basil, dried oregano, nutritional yeast, bread crumbs. Stick in a hot oven (200C/400F) for about 20-25 mins. Stir and mash up the mess of tomatoes, add lemon…
kebab truck kale chips on pasta
I make kale chips a lot. In fact, almost every time I get curly kale in my veg box I make kale chips. My kale chips taste more like the yummy sauce from a late night kebab truck than a trendy leafy green. Today I made lemon garlic chilli pasta (really just pasta with lemon,…
adventures with my veg box 