Seasonal recipes from your store cupboard
This dish combines root vegetables with peppers and courgettes to give a different flavour to traditional ratatouille. I often find that when you see ratatouille it is almost a stew with vegetables swimming in a tomato and oil sauce. When I spent some time in France in my teens, I was served a delicious dish …
We all keep hearing how healthy kale is. If you are not keen on the texture but want to retain the goodies then try this hummus. I have used cannellini beans as they are not as overpowering as chick peas as you want to keep that kale flavour. I serve the hummus with vegetable sticks …
Confit is a method of cooking food in fat, oil or a water syrup at a low temperature. Confit cooking is not deep frying since it is done at temperatures around 93C or 200F and sometimes lower.Although you use a lot of oil for this dish, you do end up with a deliciously flavoured oil …
A fresh and crisp wrap to serve with your Summer picnic.
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 lot of people say they don’t like beetroot….. well I can understand a dislike of the vinegary, plastic-wrapped purple balls sold in most supermarkets, but the wonderful sweet and intense flavour of roasted beetroot with its great nutritional values, is a completely different vegetable. A delicious vegetarian dish which can serve 2 as a …