broad beans with feta and pasta

broad beans, originally uploaded by ramtops. I shelled these last night, because I knew I wanted to cook them for lunch – I have taken up Morris Dancing (yes, really!), and practice is on Tuesdays, so I prefer to have my main meal at lunchtiime then. So: chopped an onion, and put it in some…

broad beans, feta and pasta

Another big bag of broad beans in the box this week. I wanted something quick and simple for supper, but of course failed to allow the time required to shell a big bag of broad beans. Ho hum. Once they were released from their furry prisons, I set (far too much) pasta on to boil,…

broad beans with pancetta and tuna

A bag of broad beans arrived in the veg box on Friday; we like ’em, but you don’t get many once you’ve removed them from the huge furry pods. I simmered them for about ten minutes, then drained, blanched, and put in a big bowl.  I fried off a pack of pancetta cubes and put…

warm salad of broad beans, tuna, bacon and potato

Apologies for the quality of the photo – not sure what happened there! Using up: broad beans, (old) new potatoes. bacon This one really was off the top of my head – Pete wasn’t sure about the tuna and bacon together, but he is now 🙂 I cooked maybe 750g of new potatoes that were…

broad bean enchiladas

Using up: almost everything left in the fridge!  Carrots, broad beans, potatoes, salad leaves, wheat wraps I said this week would be weird meals … emptying the fridge can make odd but pleasing concoctions. Boiled the remaining new potatoes, and 6 minutes before the end, put some broad beans, and the very, very last of…

broad bean wrap

Using up: broad beans, cashews in salt and black pepper, salad leaves, roast chicken Riverford brought us broad beans last week (I think these are fava beans in the US).  They’re not something we get excited about, and so they languished in the bottom of the fridge.  Last night I fetched them out and podded…