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 …
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. …
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 …
It was Regather’s prize-winning flower grower/wrangler/designer, Rachel, who recommended this dish the other day. Mushrooms, onions and winter roots in a lovely mustardy gravy and a crispy topping. That’s a Goldilocks dish: not too heavy, not too light. Rachel tells me the recipe doesn’t suffer for having less than the full whack of mushrooms – use what you have. And we …
If, like me, you’re a bit rubbish at making yeasted bread (I blame our superb local bakehouses – Forge, Perfectionery and Tower of Bagel – for setting the bar way too high), why not do a homemade soda bread? Well, this one is a marriage of Irish soda bread and Italian focaccia. With potatoes from the veg box. Yum. Recipe …
Our veg boxes are so vivid in September/October, studded with colourful organic carrots, beetroots and squashes. This week, beets are the recipe focus and it was a toss-up whether to go for a healthy beetroot dip or beetroot chocolate muffins. We’ve taken the savoury route – recipe from Dr Rupy Aujla and published on BBC food. Ideally don’t squander the …
Our organic runner beans are at their peak. On the farm and on the allotment it’s such a pleasure to see them hanging heavy and splendid from the climbing vine. Here’s an easy and healthy weekend breakfast or lunch dish using runner beans – plus onion, garlic and eggs, and some olives for piquancy. Serve with bread and fresh tomatoes.
Just the thought of a fragrant Thai curry sets the mouth watering. The beauty of this recipe – by the BOSH! team, Henry Firth and Ian Theasby – is that you can be pretty flexible with the summer veg elements, guided by your veg box (of course!). Of the veg listed, we’d say tomatoes and mushrooms are vital to the …
While my favourite and default way to have green beans is simmered gently with fresh tomatoes and onion, or in a Niçoise salad, sometimes it’s good to reach into the recipe books. This dish by Anna Jones from ‘One Pot, Pan, Planet’ is totally worth a trip to a Chinese supermarket to get some Sichuan peppercorns and authentic black bean …
You can’t have too many ideas for courgettes, tomatoes and aubergines at this time of year. This classic French dish is a more aesthetically pleasing version of a ratatouille – the ‘tian’ refers to the round ceramic oven dish traditionally used in Provence. There are plenty of recipe versions online but we’ve gone for one by Rachel Khoo from her …