Posted in Mains, Recipes, tagged cooking, dinner, food, mains, party food, pasta, recipes, vegetables, vegetarian on May 24, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Apparently it’s ‘vegetarian week’ at the moment! Who knew… Oh yes, Twitter of course. The internet loves a themed day or week! So I could spend the week preaching about how great it is to be a veggie, but I thought I’d celebrate by suggesting some ways meat-eaters and veggies can get along better. And what issue is more contentious than cooking dinner for each other??
Posted in Preserves, Recipes, Side dishes, tagged alcohol, cooking, food, foraging, preserves, recipes, side dishes, vegetables, vegetarian on May 17, 2011| 1 Comment »
Spring is here and food is growing again woop! I’ve been foraging a couple of times already and I’ve even harvested a few things from the garden…
Posted in Preserves, Recipes, What to do with..., tagged baking, cooking, dessert, food, preserves, recipes, vegetarian on May 9, 2011| 2 Comments »
I don’t think I’d ever tried rhubarb before moving to the UK and to be honest I found it a bit weird and scary the first time it arrived in my veg box. I mean, it looks like stringy celery but it’s used in desserts?? The leaves are also super-poisonous which makes it sound even more suspicious. I tried making a typical crumble and it was ok but I couldn’t quite work up the enthusiasm other people seemed to have for this weird veggie/fruit thing.
But I kept trying different dishes and by this spring, I found myself smiling at the smell of those first sticks of rhubarb, picked from the garden. So if you’re not so sure about rhubarb, do stick with it. (sorry sorry bad pun!) Here’s a few recipe ideas to try…
