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…
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butternut squash pie
Happy thanksgiving! Continuing on with my butternut squash adventures, I roasted and puréed some butternut squash to make pie for thanksgiving. I wasn’t sure how it would go, but I had enough squash so that if it were a disaster, I could try again. That is the joy of the giant butternut squash. About a…
courgette galette
I had a little pie crust left from the pie I made, so I decided to make a galette for one with some courgette/zucchini and onion from my veg box. This can easily be scaled up to a galette for more than one, and would work well with any store-bought pastry. This is also super…
cherry pie
No soggy bottoms here! My sister-in-law gifted me a whole book on pies, and this beauty was from it, pastry and all. This is easily the best pie crust I’ve ever made, and I followed her advice in the book and chilled ALL my ingredients and my bowl. Here is the link for the pastry:…
happy little pies
I had a lot of flat peaches in my veg box. And some random veg box pears and strawberries. So I made a little peach, pear, strawberry pie, with a bit of mint and a teaspoon of chambord. Because I’m the kinda person who has a little pie plate. Many ready-to-roll crusts in the UK…
adventures with my veg box 