Hello! I hope you are all doing well out there. It turns out that for me the post-Easter slump applies even if Easter is spent on a massive online church crawl rather than by singing in person at every church…
Category: cooking with vegetables
Recipe: Carrot, Tomato and Chickpea Tagine with Saffron and Ras El Hanout
I was asked to organise a farewell lunch for one of my scientists at the local pub, which means organising pre-orders. They have a new menu this month, and one of the offerings caught my attention – heirloom carrot and…
Community Supported Agriculture
I’ve been wanting to give Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) a try for a few years now, but I always think of this at the wrong time of year and miss the window to sign up. For those who haven’t heard…
Recipe: Romanian polenta and Sicilian Cauliflower
Oh, my poor neglected food blog! Which is about to be even more neglected, as with an election approaching (timed, by the look of it, to clash most vilely with the grant application high season at work), and more than…
Recipe: Ravioli primavera
An actual savoury recipe! Who knew I could still do those? Actually, I have an uneasy feeling I’ve done something very like this before. I mean, me, pasta, vegetables – that’s basically my default work night dinner, frankly. But I…
Review: The Forest Feast Cookbook
I love this cookbook. Love it, love it, love it. So much. I bought it just under a week ago and so far I have made twelve recipes from it, and they were all gorgeous and it just makes me…
Recipe: Stuffed zucchini on roasted tomatoes
I was originally going to post this to my Tomatoes challenge, but then grant season got the better of me and nothing happened at all. And now I have a Tofu challenge in play, and I have no idea what…
Recipe: Eggplant with Tomatoes and Yoghurt
This recipe is inspired by our local Turkish restaurants, which we don’t go to nearly often enough, actually. They all have some variation of eggplant ‘yogurtlu’, eggplant that has been fried in oil until it is sweet and caramelised, and…
Recipe: Tuna Salad
We’re getting into the really hot days now, when any recipe that doesn’t involve switching on the stove, oven, or even toaster, is a recipe to be valued. And in these post-Christmas weeks, there is a certain urge towards salad,…
Recipe: Vegan Pizza Primavera with Salsa Verde
There seems to be a bit of a theme on this blog recently, doesn’t there? But what can I say? It’s Spring! And that is, after all, what Primavera means… I tend to be much more vegetarian-oriented in the months from…