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.
Possibly the best-named dish in this collection? It’s like a Scottish bubble and squeak: mashed spuds and swede, mixed with cabbage or kale, topped with cheese and baked until golden crispy. Salivating yet? Recipe from bbc.co.uk/food. Serve with a green salad, to Spring-ify it. Lots of swedes in the boxes this week. Get rumbledethumping!
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 …
My usual rule for soup-making at home is to batch-cook and have some to freeze. I make an exception for a small portion of precious organic Jerusalem artichokes when they appear in the box in winter and spring. I will never forget the first time I ate them. I’d been invited to a friend’s mum’s place for Christmas on the …
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 …
The spotlight this week turns to the organic Spring Greens cabbages getting packed in most of our veg boxes. Here’s a really simple but lovely way to cook and eat them – recipe from Nigel Slater. Make sure everything is prepped and ready before you heat the wok. When I make this dish, I’ll chuck in some finely cut shards …
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.
It’s avocado season – a real highlight of February. If you’ve been cruising around the Fruit & Veg box extra options on this site, you’ll know you can order a 500g portion of gorgeous organic avocados sustainably grown in Europe. I cannot resist them most weeks. At home, most of the avocados are destined for toast with egg. But this …
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. …