A while back when I had a beautiful Savoy cabbage in my veg box I made cabbage rolls. This time when I had a Savoy cabbage I decided to fill them with rice, smoked tofu, mushrooms from my vegbox, and some black bean paste. It was really nice and freezes well. Here is what I…
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cabbage rolls and cabbage roll lasagna
I had the most beautiful small Savoy cabbage in my veg box this week and I was inspired by a delicious photo on Instagram to make some cabbage rolls because Savoy cabbage, with their lacy leaves, make particularly pretty ones. I haven’t made cabbage rolls before, so a warning to the novice cabbage roll makers,…
peanut stew
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…
broccoli, lentil, and rice salad
I had lots of lovely greens in my veg box, namely purple sprouting broccoli and rocket/arugula, so I decided to make an easy grain salad with grains, greens, lentils, and some nuts and seeds. Here is what I did. I put 1/2 cup of rice in my rice cooker and set it to cook. While…
butternut squash, lentil, ginger soup with rice
I had a butternut squash in my veg box so I decided to use half for a spicy peanut stew and half for this gentle comforting soup, since my veg box also came with fresh ginger and onions. This soup is really easy, but like most soups, it is much better the next day, so…
tofu, brussels sprouts, black bean paste stir-fry on rice
Perhaps not the most exciting photo of the brussels sprouts from my veg box, which were adorable and picture perfect before they hit the pan, but they were still super tasty. Thanks to my veg box, and a fair bit of British encouragement, I’m a brussels sprout convert. This was a fast and yummy dinner…
tomato veg rice soup
This week Facebook and Instagram were full of delicious things by my friends and family, so I didn’t have to go far to find inspiration for things to do with my veg box. I landed on soup. I wanted something thick and creamy, and one of my friends had done a kinda soup thing with…
rice and beans
I had solid staples in my veg box this week: celery, carrots, onions, and tomatoes, so I thought with the addition of a lone pepper I could do some version of rice and beans. My first thought was chilli since I had a can of kidney beans, but then I thought I’d use some of…
sprout top soup
My veg box had more sprouts, but this time the whole plant, so I set myself the task of figuring out what to do with leaves AND sprouts. This soup is the first experiment with cooking with the leaves: sprout leaves, the half dozen mushrooms from my box, tomato, rice soup. I sautéed an onion,…
antipasto baked rice
This baked rice is a variation on an Ottolenghi recipe. I put 1 cup (200g) rice, 2 tablespoons (25g) butter (or oil), salt, fresh mint, fresh oregano, lemon pepper, dried garlic in an ovenproof pot with a lid (or a deep casserole pot with tin foil). I added 400ml of boiling water to the rice,…
adventures with my veg box 