Learn to love your leftovers and cook some amazing meals. [...]
 A delicious anchovy and butter bean dip. [...]  A frugal vegatable soup. [...]  A quick and easy lunch dish using chickpeas in place of the traditional beans. [...]  Testing the Discovery fajita range. [...]  Simple homemade hummus with added greens [...] In a break from chocolate and baking here is a winter warming chilli. Using black beans, and butternut squash the chilli is spiced with cumin and sweet paprika, giving lots of warming comforting flavour, without a Scoville tolerance test to your tastebuds. Delicious and ready in about 30 minutes. [...] I am officially dippy – I would like to believe that dips are a food group, I know that they are not, but I can dream. But this dip, served with some crudites and pitta bread possibly does count as a reasonably balanced meal. It is a pretty pale orange and perfect for Halloween, watched [...] [...] Autumn is upon us and today it was time to dig out and dust off my slow cooker after not using it all summer. In further celebration of Chocolate Week, and bouyed by the success of the stout brownies, I made a casserole, using another bottle of the double chocolate stout I was sent by [...] [...] In my last post about my co-op bags I promised a recipe to use all those last bits of salad vegetables lurking at the bottom of the fridge. This is a simple citrus, zingy lentil salad. I love lentils, cheap, quick, tasty, packed with protein and low GI to boot, they are a store cupboard [...] [...] People know that I enjoy cooking and that I generally like to eat healthily, and well and often. Some are also aware of my trying to stick to a vegan diet “for at least 80% of the time as it makes me feel healthier and it is better for the planet”*. As a result I [...] [...] This month’s Fresh From the Oven Challenge was hosted by Chele, from Chocolate Teapot, who choose brioche for the challenge. I was hugely excited about this as I love brioche and had never made it before, but had always enjoyed it on French holidays. Muttering “Let them eat cake” to myself I set about making [...] [...] You know the occasions when you have asked people for supper, then you get home 5 minutes before they are due to arrive and nothing is prepared? I think that a bowl of dip is the perfect casual starter. Easy to throw together from store cupboard staples and the contents of my co-op veg box, [...] [...] The host for next friday’s Presto Pasta Night #163 is Chaya The Comfy Cook. I was up half of last Thursday night watching the UK election results. Consequently on Friday I was shattered, but greatly enjoying watching the sleep starved, over caffeinated presenters battle on – at one point one told the nation that the [...] [...] I continue to be delighted with the vegetables from my local food co-op; not only are they incredibly cheap, but I am enjoying the challenge of coming up with ideas to use up vegetables I would never normally buy. I think I have only ever bought turnips twice in the last 10 years and [...] [...] I spent all day at the Decanter New World Fine Wine Fair and I was desperate for something simple and speedy to soak up the alcohol when I got home, I had half a butternut squash in the fridge and beans, peas, corn and tortillas in the freezer. From start to plate these took about [...] [...] An Indian variation of the lemon chick peas. Chole (Serves 12 as a side dish, 6 as a main course) 2lb Soaked and Cooked Chickpeas, 2 onions finely chopped. 1 tin chopped tomatoes. (400g) 2 tsp salt. 2 tsp turmeric. 2 tsp crushed garlic. 2 tsp crushed ginger (Fuss Free tip – use Very Lazy [...] [...] I love chickpeas, and happily eat them several times a week, either added to things to bulk them out or as the star of their own dish. I tend to cook them myself from dried, presoaking for 24 hours by pouring boiling water over the washed peas in a bowl; changing the water once, then [...] [...] |
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