[sorry – took photo with iPhone and it didn’t come out well] Using up: half a carton of double cream, some elderly mushrooms I was going to do a mushroom sauce for tagliatelle, and then inspiration struck! I sent Pete out to see if there was any parsley left in the herb tubs while it…
Tag: vegetarian
stir fried sprouts
We were approaching a glut of brussels sprouts – half a stalk in the shed, and yesterday’s veg box brought us another stalkful. As my regular reader will notice, we’re not really “meat and two veg” eaters, so sprouts don’t tend to be something that fit easily into our cooking. So, I experimented … Snapped…
indian vegetarian meal
[no photo – sorry] Pete brought a huge bunch of coriander home from the Indian supermarket on Saturday. We had some with a vegetable tagine, some with sour pork with rhubarb, but there was still a reasonable wodge left. We have lots of spuds to eat too, as the rain got through the shed roof…
vegetable tagine
Using up: bits of veg – courgettes, carrots, aubergine, spinach As I said a day or so back, I wanted to do something other than moussaka with the aubergine. We also had some green beans that needed eating up, a fair number of carrots and a lot of courgettes, so they seemed like suitable candidates…
lentil lasagne
[sorry – no photo] Using up: some spinach As my regular reader will know, I made some lentil moussaka mix last weekend for the freezer. I even bought an aubergine to go with it. But then I thought “we always make moussaka when we have aubergine”, and decided I might try something different with it. …
cauliflower cheese
Last night’s supper was cauliflower cheese, accompanied by potatoes roasted in duck fat. Not especially “reactive”, but a lovely meal concocted out of things we had. I’m not going to tell you how to make a cheese sauce, because I don’t weigh or measure anything – I’ve been making it too long for that. But…
roasted veg
Using up: sweet potatoes, other veg We haven’t had this for ages, and I really don’t know why. It’s simple to prepare, and utterly lovely.We had a couple of sweet potatoes in the veg box this week; not enough to make a sweet potato mash, so this is what I did. Cut up into chunks:…
lentil moussaka
Sorry – forgot the picture! Using up: aubergine, some grated cheese This turned into a bit of an epic, and was lovely. I looked up some recipes, both on the interweb and in my copious collection of cookery books, but nothing seemed quite right, so I made it up as I went along. I put…
meat free stir fry
using up: bits and bobs of veg, some rather tired coriander leaves, small chestnut mushrooms and some beansprouts from the veg box It’s nice – and cheaper – not to eat meat all the time. And it’s good for you. This served two of us quite happily. As always, the secret of a stir fry…
courgette and fennel "cottage pie"
Using up: fennel, courgette, potato Chopped a courgette into chunks, and the other half of the fennel into thin slices, and chopped an onion. All into a frying pan with some olive oil, and left to sauté down. I left it for 20 minutes, but I think it would have been better to either put…