tuna and kidney bean salad

I put a stack of kidney beans into to soak on Thursday night, and boiled them up in the slow cooker on Friday. I really do recommend slow cookers for beans – they don’t fill the kitchen with steam, they don’t need topping up, the beans don’t stick. On Saturday, I made a tuna and…

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…

chickpeas and tuna for lunch

Into a bowl went: 1 can chickpeas 1 can tuna in sunflower oil 1 chopped sweet red pepper 3 chopped spring onions 6 or so chopped radishes some cress lime juice, mayonnaise, tamari Mixed it all up, decanted into two bowls, ate with a wheat tortilla – made  a lovely change.

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…