A good friend of mine has made this lovely pie for me many times and I’ve finally got around to making it for myself. This is easy and delicious. I make it in my big cast iron pan. My stomach isn’t great with the volume of alliums in the original recipe, so I’ve reduced it…
Tag: spinach
potato puffs
Today I wanted comfort food. I decided to use my veg box potatoes (always a comfort), spinach (always gorgeous), and onions (always nice), to make something like a vegan sausage roll. Okay, it is nothing at all like a sausage roll. Basically this is yummy savoury zesty mash in puff pastry. Here is what I…
sweet potato, aubergine, spinach curry
I had a lovely small aubergine/eggplant in my veg box and some sweet potato and spinach to finish, so I decided to make a quick curry. This was easy and a nice way to use up some leftovers, including 1/3 can of tomatoes. Here is what I did. I chopped a small onion and set…
cabbage and leek pies
My veg box came with this season’s staples: cabbage and leeks. So I thought I would make a pie. I was looking for filo dough and little Tesco’s didn’t have any so I got some puff pastry. Inside is cabbage, leeks, feta, mustard, caraway seeds, dried spinach flakes, and Aleppo pepper. I think this would…
sweet potato, spinach and bean salad
I had some lovely sweet potatoes and onions in my veg box and so I decided to make a smoky grain salad using a small can of cannelloni beans, some frozen spinach, and bulgur wheat. This would work with fresh spinach and any other grains, like couscous. It is just as nice eaten warm as…
mac n cheese n greens
My veg box had all the lovely greens with week, so I’ve have been spoiled with lush leafy greens on everything. I decided to make easy mac and cheese (a béchamel sauce with added cheese and toss that with noodles) and top my noodles with some sautéed garlicky spinach. So yummy. Béchamel sauce is pretty…
adventures with my veg box 