chickpeas and chard

There was a bunch of swiss chard lurking in the fridge; and we were slightly over-tomato’d.  So I soaked some chickpeas overnight on Friday, and bunged them in the slow cooker with some boiling water at early o’clock on Saturday, so that we could construct something for supper. Sliced the chard into 1 cm strips,…

green beans and tomato

We’re a bit over veg’d this week, as we bought mushrooms and asparagus as well as the box, and so we’re starting to panic a bit over what’s left this week, given another box arrives tomorrow.  Think I’ll have to cancel next week’s … Tonight, we looked at the large number of runner beans, and…

local food for local people

Last Friday, Pete and I skived off for the day in order to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary, and went down to deepest, darkest Somerset. En route to Porlock, we screeched to halt at a sign advertising “locally picked asparagus”, and bore home a bunch that was reassuringly expensive. On Saturday, the local farm shop…

asparagus egg-fried rice

We had friends over for Eurovision on Saturday – we cooked up an Indian feast: beef in coconut and black masala, split moong dhal, cucumber/carrot/red onion raita.  There was a stack of rice left over, and a bunch of asparagus to eat. Trimmed the woody bits off the asparagus, cut the stalks into thirds, and…

keralan vegetable massala

As mentioned, we needed to make inroads into the veg glut. This is an adaptation of a recipe from Anjum Anand, and we replaced the chicken with some veg. It worked remarkably well, and would serve four greedy people, or six more restrained souls. 1 bag spinach some groundnut oil (I never use as much…

chickpea and vegetable tagine

Sorry for the lack of posts – too much work, combined with end of year accounts and VAT return due – and the new freezer due for delivery at the end of this week (hurrah!) has meant that  we are eating out of the freezer, mostly.  It’s stuff we’ve cooked and frozen, but not very…

gingery chickpeas

More experimentation with the slow cooker, this. I started on Wednesday evening (i.e. 2 days before we ate this!), by putting some chickpeas (probably about 2.5 mugs full) to soak in cold water overnight. We do always have tins in the larder, but I like to used dried where possible, as they are so much…

green beans and mustard

This may well sound disgusting, but trust me – it’s delicious, vegetarian, and very cheap. An odd fusion of flavours, I know, and I do have a slight pang about the green beans flown in from Kenya … Put some basmati rice on to cook whatever way you like – there are, it seems, dozens…

a lentil bake

I’m a big fan of lentils – I just love the texture, and we often have a lentil lasagne or moussaka. We don’t have a veg box at the moment (I cancelled the one we were using because it wasn’t quite what we wanted, and haven’t started a new one), but on my veg shop yesterday, I bought a couple of aubergines, just so I could concoct this …

cauliflower and potato, indian style

using up: cauliflower. This didn’t go quite to plan, but turned out utterly delicious.  I don’t suppose we’ll ever be able to recreate it, though. I set a pan of potatoes to parboil, intending to deep fry them later, and put a cut up cauli in the steamer on top.  Pete did Indian spices –…