Here’s an idea for the carrots and sweet potato in the veg boxes. No sweet potato? You could substitute swede, turnip or regular potato. Serve with couscous and any kind of green veg on the side – sauteed spring greens, purple sprouting broccoli or even some sliced cucumber.
I spotted this “mosaic of a flan” recipe by Rachel Roddy in The Guardian recently and knew it was perfect to go out on the Regather recipe page for Easter week. There are eggs! There are lots of veggies! And the veg component is pretty flexible according to what goodies you have in your boxes.
Bananas in lots of our fruit boxes this week. We haven’t featured a banana recipe in a looooong time. Must remedy that! If you can keep your hands off two of the bananas and let them get very ripe in your fruit bowl, treat yourself to home baking. Banoffee blondies. From the cookery writer with the best nom de plume …
New favourite potato dish! Devoured twice in one week, three times if you count leftovers for lunch. Recipe by the wonderful Meera Sodha from her book Fresh India. The quantity of spices is a little conservative – it’s safe to dial them up a notch. You can treat this curry as a simple meal, with a plain green vegetable on …
For Pancake Day this year, let’s go Welsh with a savoury leek and cheese filling. We have leeks in most veg boxes this week, plus little bags of mushrooms. A few sautéed mushrooms would be delicious on top of the pancakes. Recipe from Mari Williams on bbc.co.uk/food. The Welsh translation for the dish is wonderful: Crempog cennin a caws Caerphilly.
Our Jess was talking about a yummy meal-in-a-bowl salad she concocted – a good prompt to get a roots-based winter salad on the recipe page. Always good to put carrots back in the spotlight, but roasted parsnips or beetroot would work too. Use feta if blue cheese is not your thing. This dish would be pretty easy to veganize. …
Vegetable lasagna has been on Clem’s mind lately, and Clem’s wish is my command! Cue some beautiful organic butternut squashes in most boxes this week – et voilà – a garlicky butternut lasagna. And it’s vegan, too. So, if you’re craving the comfort of pasta plus a bit of meditative assembly time in the kitchen, look no further. Recipe from …
On Sunday 22 January, it’s Lunar New Year aka Chinese New Year. It’s Year of the Rabbit! If you’ve ever wanted to make your own dumplings, now is the time. There’s a lot of recipes online, but we’ve gone for one by vegan food blogger Bianca Zapatka. Her veg combo is bang-on seasonally perfect for our boxes: cabbage, leek, mushrooms, …
Continuing our January theme: more delicious Frugal + Vegan action this week! West African peanut stew – aka ‘maafe’ or ‘domoda’, depending on region – is super flavourful and rich. It was first served to me by my friend Kat who trained in West African dance (and is a total natural at it). This version is fully plant based. Recipe …
A very happy 2023 to you all! We’re back from our break and getting busy at HQ taking delivery of lots of lovely winter produce ready for your boxes this week. Our recipe to kick off the new year is going back to basics using box stalwarts carrots, potatoes and onions, plus swede or turnips. A vegan Irish stew, essentially. …