Seasonal recipes from your store cupboard
Whenever I make porridge I always seem to have a bowl over! Fortunately it can be heated the next day, or it freezes really well, so it never goes to waste. The other day I experimented with a bowl of cold porridge whilst making my bread. I thought – well, I put milk and grains …
Have you got some peanut butter sitting in the cupboard that needs using up? Whether its smooth or nutty you can use it to make a squidgy brownie. You use less sugar to make this brownie – which is what normally gives it that lovely crust- as the chocolate spread and peanut butter give …
A delicious and quick way to use greek yogurt and cheese. You can make mini muffins which are ideal to serve as canapés.
This is a delicious winter-warming soup full of healthy vegetables and Mexican spices. You can change some of the vegetables to suit what’s in your vegetable box or even use some leftover cooked vegetables. The chocolate helps to compliment the spices. You can add kidney beans if liked or if you have some leftover beef …
A beautiful rich green jam, perfect of breakfast on sourdough toast. I keep the quarters of orange in the jam to keep the orange flavour. You can chop it up and add it to the jam.
A beautiful deep pink marmalade made with pink grapefruit, and perfect for breakfast. With its strong tart flavour it can also be useful in your baking such as in a swiss roll.I like to use it in individual frangipan tarts as it brings on a completely new flavour and is not so sweet.
A spoonful mixed with some tomato ketchup gives a lovely glaze to sausages or pork chops. Just brush over halfway through cooking to prevent them burning.
It’s that time of the year when the shops and farm shops are selling Seville oranges ready for you to fill your store cupboard with jars of lovely marmalade. Apart from oranges, there are other citrus fruits that can be used to make delicious marmalades – lemons, limes, grapefruit, kumquats and pink grapefruit.The other day I was making a batch of orange marmalade and it was a cold wet day and I was in the mood to carry on making something else. so, I looked through the fridge and found some pink grapefruit and a lemon that needed using. I got my jars ready whilst the grapefruit were boiling away and looked in the cupboard to see what I could add to compliment the flavour.I came up with pomegranate molasses which I like to keep in the cupboard to add to spicy casseroles, roasted vegetables and salad dressings.
