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RECIPES

A collection of 7 posts

Warm The Cockles Of Your Heart With Borsch!

Warm The Cockles Of Your Heart With Borsch!

We have a friend who says this tastes like authentic Ukrainian borsch – and she should know, she’s from Chernivtsi. Our Oddbox delivery has of late brought us veg we haven’t necessarily factored in to our current menu list, and the result has been a lot of beetroot that

Bean and Vegetable Hotpot

Bean and Vegetable Hotpot

This is one of my favourite recipes, not least because you can use up any vegetables that are waiting in the fridge for inspiration to strike! The version in the picture contains onions, garlic, a couple of sticks of celery, a tiny piece of root ginger, finely chopped, butternut squash,

Vegetarian Roast Cheese, Cashew and Walnut Loaf

Patsy Hollingum writes: I’ve been making this for our Christmas dinner for around ten years now. It sounds more complex than it is, the end result is well worth the effort, and it takes far less time to roast than a turkey. It is just as tasty served cold,

Beans Means … Texture and Flavour

Beans Means … Texture and Flavour

Following on from the earlier post about lentils Patsy Hollingum turns her attention to beans. I am a fan of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme and earlier in 2022 the topic was beans, a subject to which the team devoted two episodes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/

Patsy Hollingum is taking the pulse ...

Patsy Hollingum is taking the pulse ...

In my store cupboard at the moment I have no fewer than 10 different types of pulse, plus one on my current shopping list. Some of you will be familiar with the word, without knowing exactly what it covers, so here’s a little rule of thumb: a pulse is

Hard Times Bread Pudding

By Patsy Hollingum This is a recipe for old fashioned bread pudding using stale white bread. It’s a good way to use up really stale bread, including the crusts. As it is a recipe for using up “left-overs” I have not given exact quantities, however, don’t go over

Vitality Soup & Family Frittata

VITALITY SOUP Cooking time: 20mins Vegan, dairy free, gluten free A combination of early vegetables and wild seasonal gems that can easily be foraged in Spring. Soften an onion, add 600g asparagus, handful of young nettle tops, 2 handfuls of wild garlic and chopped garlic clove, cover with 1-1.5