This is a very old Cranks recipe that I find VERY moreish. I find myself making it probably three out of seven days a week, to have with pitta or falafel and other salady bits. I know not everyone loves carrots – and really I should have posted this up in the lockdown veg box…
Spinach and bulgar wheat pilaf with chilli roast tomatoes and halloumi
I am a bit behind with recipes and owe my readers a few salads already. However, this recipe is a new and massive favourite that I just have to enthuse to you about right now. The salads will have to wait. This is an adaptation of a recipe from Diana Henry’s sumptuous ‘Crazy Water, Pickled…
Oven-dried tomatoes
I am slightly addicted to tomatoes. And they’re wonderful at the moment, especially if you’re lucky enough to source Isle of Wight Tomatoes. I eat them like I would sweets. But I also love this slow recipe for very ripe, larger tomatoes. You need five hours – but can do a batch and it only…
Lockdown veg box idea #7: Sticky spiced squash loaf
I absolutely love and relish most vegetables but lockdown has persuaded me finally never to bother with butternut squash again if I can possibly help it. They’re such a faff, for a start. The boys in the family don’t like the sweetness and I don’t care for the bland claggy texture. So when there was…
Lockdown veg box idea #6 – Meera Sodha’s roasted root vegetable madras
First of all, this recipe comes from Meera Sodha’s ‘Fresh India’ book (http://meerasodha.com/about/books/) and with very kind permission from Meera for allowing me to post it. Secondly, following my veg crumble recipe, it’s another cracking way of using up unfamiliar or not-so-much-liked root veg – but also it’s a delicious way of using any roots….
Lockdown veg box idea #5 – anything! – Vegetable crumble
I can’t believe this wasn’t the first idea I posted or that it didn’t occur to me sooner. This hearty, healthy and delicious recipe is a very old one of my mother’s. It’s very popular with all families I’ve given it to! And the best thing of all is that you can use anything –…
Lockdown veg box idea #4 – lettuce, pea and parsley soup
It’s really easy to let a lettuce languish in your larder [fridge] until it’s a soggy mulch. I don’t mind lettuce but I’m alone in my family. Therefore, it’s almost impossible to get through a whole one such as the one in my veg box two weekends ago. But it feels very wrong to waste…
Lockdown veg box ideas #3 – green peppers
Nobody ever really knows what to do with green peppers. They’re pretty much indigestible and unpalatable, compared with their yellow, orange and red cousins. So when I found that my veg box had a red, yellow and green pepper each, I felt that the only and best thing I could create was a version of…
Lockdown veg box ideas #2 – celery soup
Okay, so this was as a result of two veg boxes giving me a surfeit of celery. Two of our family dislike eating it raw so I wanted to find a way of using it that didn’t have its stringyness. I came across this soup recipe in a Delia book (https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/soups/cream-of-celery-soup). Luckily, the veg boxes…
Lockdown veg box idea #1 – sweet potato saag aloo
I thought some people might find it useful to see what you can do with individual (sometimes seemingly random as well) lockdown veg box ingredients.
The Veg Isle 