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…
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broccoli soup
I think everyone probably has a broccoli soup recipe, but here is a vegan one I did that is creamy, gentle, and satisfying. It makes use of lovely veg box favourites (carrots, onions, potatoes, in addition to broccoli). It gets its zip from cashews blended up with some nutritional yeast. I didn’t use stock, just…
beans on toast
I admit, I’m lukewarm when it comes to beans on toast, but it always sounds so lovely and comforting that I find myself kinda craving it. Meera Sodha has a recipe for masala beans on toast and they are pretty much perfect. In fact, they are the beans I want with a full English. Really,…
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…
plum and pear toaster strudels
I was feeling like a treat, so I bought some puff pastry and decided to make something like toaster strudels. For the filling, I decided to use the pretty plums and pears from my veg box which I thought would be delicious with some cardamom and star anise. And it really really was. I don’t…
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…
fresh pea soup
So, I have access to a beautiful garden right now that is full of peas. Full disclosure, peas are really not my favourite veg. I will pick them out of pretty much every meal, I dislike them so much. However, since I had all these fresh peas in the garden, I figured I would give…
instant pot broccoli risotto
I decided to use the lovely head of broccoli I had in my vegbox to try out risotto in the instant pot. Risotto isn’t that hard to make the regular way, but it is super easy to make if you have a little food processor, kettle, and instant pot. It takes about 15 mins. Here…
courgette pasta with sourdough croutons
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…
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…
adventures with my veg box 