I’m working my way through my big purple kohlrabi, and today I made a sesame slaw salad. I used the same veg box veg (kohlrabi sliced with a mandolin and then chopped into match sticks, fat carrot sliced into ribbons with my peeler) and made a dressing by whisking a tsp of soy sauce, tsp…
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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…
cool summer salads
It was hot today and so cool easy salads were what I needed. These three are low effort and using not too many ingredients: spicy brown lentils with tomatoes and lemon; potato, green bean, and rocket/arugula salad with honey mustard dressing; and herby mushrooms with sourdough croutons. You can add feta or mozzarella to any…
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…
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…
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,…
cauliflower leaves
If you’re someone whose keen on using as many parts of the vegetable as possible, you might enjoy my lunch today: roasted cauliflower leaves and tomato lemon bulgar wheat pilaf. If you like a roasted brassica (Brussels sprout or cabbage), you’ll probably like this too. I saved the leaves from my veg box cauliflower, tossed…
purslane bulgar wheat salad
I had purslane in my veg box which is a leafy green I’d never had before, until I had a veg box! And it is lovely. It is a soft unassuming leaf, a little like spinach. I figured it would be nice in a salad with the tomatoes and avocado also in my veg box,…
sweet potato kale salad
In my veg box I had some great sweet potatoes and some flower sprouts, which is a cross between kale and Brussels sprouts. I decided to make a warm salad by roasting the sweet potatoes, steaming the flower sprouts, brown rice, and making a peanut dressing. This isn’t exactly quick and uses a lot of…
adventures with my veg box 