With organic cucumbers as box regulars again now, we wanted to recommend a mouth-watering dish that wasn’t a classic salad or a pickle. This recipe by the brilliant Anna Jones fits the bill. It’s her version of a bowl of noodles at a neighbourhood Taiwanese restaurant in Los Angeles. So here we are: cucumber inspiration from Taiwan to Sheffield via …
We’re so happy to see organic sweetcorn in the boxes again. Try making this delicious, Mexican inspired dish (from Jennifer Joyce on bbcgoodfood.com) using seasonal tomatoes and onions. Or, if you have more kitchen time to spare, have a go at some Mexican tamales which employ corn husks as wrappings (e.g. www.thespruceeats.com/garden-vegetable-tamales-3029744) and a fermented salsa to go with it …
An eggy treat this week but one that packs in lots of healthy greens and some chilli, garlic and ginger which you can get as box extras. Recipe courtesy of Pippa, one of the newer members of the team. She already has her super-deft hands in lots of Regather pursuits – box packing, trike deliveries, farm work, plus gardening and …
This is a lovely, simple, substantial salad for lunch boxes or picnics. I went through a phase of eating it at work for lunch almost every day for months on end, with little tweaks and variations. The five core flavours – tomato, onion, mint, feta and lemon – are the essential ones (think Greek salad) for that tangy lip-smacking factor. …
We are into ‘the hungry gap’ – several weeks in the Spring which are challenging because UK-grown crops are scarce. The winter produce has been largely used up and we’re waiting for the new growing season to get into full swing. At Regather we are grateful to the organisations and farms in our network who help us plug the ‘gap’ …
This week we welcome kohlrabi, the ‘beautiful alien’ brassica. If your palate is craving a fresh hit as a counterfoil to all those wintery soups and stews, this is it. It’s at its best eaten raw in zingy slaws. If you can’t face salady things in deepest winter, try adding to a stir-fry or a root veg gratin. The recipe …
At Regather you can never have too many courgettes. This is a bit of an in-house joke but we’re sure you’re all looking for new ways to eat these faithful vegetables whose familiarity can breed not contempt but perhaps a desire for new ideas. Corn fritters are very big in the Antipodes and we think the courgette/zucchini and the chilli …
Our last recipe for cucumber was a cocktail. Now we’re getting back to main events with this vegan dish by the wonderful Meera Sodha. Can’t beat the original blurb: “Addictively crisp and chewy hard-fried rice is mixed with an eye-wateringly punchy, sweet, sour and crunchy salad”. The rice needs to be cooked the day before and kept cold in the …