Chop up a couple of onions and sweat over a low heat for 10 mins. While onions are cooking, peel and chop up any winter root veg or gourds you’ve got – here I used a pumpkin and celeriac, but parsnips, carrots, swede, it’s all good. Add chopped garlic to the sweating onions and add […]
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Veg & stout stew with dumplings
Heat the oil in a large casserole pot, add the onions and cook, stirring, on a medium heat for eight minutes, until soft and translucent. Add the mushrooms and cook for five minutes until lightly browned. Stir in the tablespoon of flour, cook for a minute or so, then add all the root veg, the […]
Beetroot, white radish & pumpkin dip
This one’s dead easy – just chop, roast and blend. Simple! Scrub veg, peel onion, wash carrot, rinse parsley Roast veg for 40-60 minutes 200C in roasting tin with a little olive oil to coat until knife goes in easily to veg. (Pumpkin and garlic cook first so perhaps put these in after 20 minutes) […]
Kind-of-Christmassy Stir-Fry
Merry Christmas! Prepare the veg – dice the onions, shred the sprout tops, and peel the carrots and parsnips and cut into thin batons, crush the garlic, grate the ginger. Cook the noodles according to packet instructions. Fry the onion until soft – add the garlic and ginger for the last 2 minutes of cooking. […]
Vegan cabbage wraps
Traditional Polish recipe (vegan version). Boil the rice in salted water and let it cool. To make the stuffing, chop and fry the mushrooms using a tablespoon of olive oil. Whilst they are frying, finely dice the onion and add to the mushrooms. Then add the boiled rice to the fried mushrooms and onion and […]
Spinach Roulade with Cheese Sauce
Pre-heat the oven Gas 6, 200 degrees C (400 degreesF). Wash the spinach well and shake off excess water. Put into saucepan without water and cook quickly for 6-8 mins. Chop finely. Mix egg yolks with the spinach, season with nutmeg, salt and pepper. Whisk the egg whites in a separate bowl until they form […]
Hocus-Pocus Pumpkin Scones
A Halloween delight. Delicious with soup! Peel skin off the pumpkin or squash. Cut into chunks & steam for 10 minutes until tender. Rub butter into flour & salt. Add pumpkin/squash and parmesan cheese. Add milk a little at a time until you have mixed to a soft doughTurn out onto lightly floured surface and […]
