Delicious, swift and delicious greens with tamari and peanut butter [...]
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It has been a while since I posted my haul, but yesterday was a bumper amount and demonstrates how fantastic food co-ops are. All this wonderful produce for only £6! For details of finding your local food Co-op see here. [...] Simple easy frugual double onion soup [...] Imagine a rich, buttery, velvety smooth chocolate mousse; one so rich that an espresso cup full is more than enough. [...] Sticky mustardy swede chips are easy to prepare and unlike potato count as one of your 5 a day. [...] In all honesty there is nothing Italian at all about this salad, but the red, white and green vegetables reminded me of an Insalata Caprese and the colours of the Italian flag, and it looks pretty. [...] 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 happy to say that I am about to have a giveaway of some lovely liquid chocolate from Hotel Chocolat. But in the interests of my readers I feel that that it is only fair that I extensively test the product before I post the giveaway, and give your some ideas of what to [...] [...] 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 [...] [...] 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 summer I have been getting an iceberg lettuce every week in my co-op box and frankly I am a little bored of them. Nothing conjures up an image of an 1970′s salad more than an iceberg. Add some pale watery tomatoes, celery and chunks of cucumber and a good dollop of [...] [...] 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, [...] [...] My food co-op has just made the summer switch over from vegetable bags to salad bags. Despite having not had a bag for the last couple of weeks (busy with life and the decorating) there are still a number of root vegetables languishing at the bottom of the fridge waiting to be eaten. As recent [...] [...] This simple healthy dip is packed with flavour and is lighter on the calories as I used water rather than oil to thin it; roasting the carrots and onion concentrates the flavour and makes a sweet tasting delicious dip which will count towards your 5 a day, the addition of sesame oil adds a nutty [...] [...] This recipe was a happy accident, I had been planning to make a risotto with my food co-op leek and some spring greens, but I only had half the amount of risotto rice I needed. I often cook a mix of rice with quinoa and buckwheat to serve in place of plain rice, so I [...] [...] This is my second recipe written for the Food Co-ops and Buying Groups project run by Sustain – also part of the Making Local Food Work programme funded by the Big Lottery. I made this a couple of weeks ago with onions, leeks and potatos from my first “bag” from the co-op. Again I have [...] [...] I feel that there should be a subtitle here along the lines of “What do I do with yet more cauliflower and cabbage?” This week I ordered both fruit and vegetable bags from my local co-op. Excellent value, this lot cost me only £6 and as explained last week benefits the local community and those [...] [...] This week Ruth’s Presto Pasta Nights is hosted by Katie at Thyme for Cooking. Ever since I made my five greens pasta last week I have become mildly obsessed with greens and my fridge is bursting at the seams with them. My submission this week is a frittata; using pasta in place of the more [...] [...] I have been aware for some time that there was a fruit and vegetable co-op at my local Church, St Andrew’s Fulham Fields, but I had never quite got round to going. Last week I was walking past when the co-op was running and I popped in to investigate. I was amazed at the quantity [...] [...] |
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