BeBe’s Gazpacho

BeBe’s Gazpacho From: My housemate BeBe 🙂 Prep Time: 1 Hours 30 Mins Cooking Time: 20 Mins Total Time: 1 Hours 30 Mins Yields: Enough for 4 bowls Ingredients:
  • 2 ridge cucumbers
  • 10 or so large tomatoes
  • Few cloves garlic
  • Mint leaves
  • Splash olive oil
  • Salt n Pepper
  • Using a blender makes it easy as.
Directions:
  1. Roast the tomatoes in the oven until soft and peel off the skins – normally I wouldn’t recommend to do this fussy step but its easy and makes a...
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Bebe’s Borscht

Bebe’s Borscht From: Helen Prep Time: 20 Mins Cooking Time: 20 Mins Yields: Enough for five people Ingredients:
  • About 8 medium sized beetroot
  • Couple of potatoes
  • Dill
  • Veggie stock
  • Black pepper
  • To serve: finely chopped onion, yogurt, fresh herbs such as dill, parsley.
Directions:
  1. Chop up the beetroot and potato into small chunks and boil under tender
  2. Blend up with the veggie stock and dill
  3. Add black pepper to taste
  4. Serve with a blob of yogurt and fresh herbs if youve got some
Notes:My housemate Bebe...
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Warming squash soup

Warming squash soup Prep Time: 20 Mins Cooking Time: 20 Mins Total Time: 40 Mins Ingredients:
  • Veg oil
  • 1 large onion
  • 1 large squash (e.g. Uchiki kuri, blue or green Kuri squash, Crown Prince squash, few little Harlequin squash)
  • Veg stock
  • Paprika
Optional topping
  • Sunflower seeds
  • Pumpkin seeds
  • Soy sauce or tamari
Directions:
  1. Fry onions in veg oil in a deep pot
  2. Chop up the squash and lob in
  3. Turn down pot to a simmer and pour in veg stock
  4. Add some paprika (smoked paprika is nice if...
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Nettle and Rocket Soup

Nettle and Rocket Soup From: Axel Prep Time: 10 Mins Cooking Time: 30 Mins Total Time: 40 Mins Yields: serves 3-4 as a starter Ingredients:
  • 100g nettles, roughly chopped
  • 100g rocket, roughly chopped
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 2 small potatoes, cubed
  • 750ml vegetable stock
  • salt, pepper
Directions:
  1. Fry the onions, potatoes, nettles and stalky bits of the rocket in a little olive oil for 2-3 minutes. Add the garlic and vegetable stock and allow to simmer for 30 minutes.
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Halloweeny Pumpkin Soup

Halloweeny Pumpkin Soup From: Helen Holmes Notes:APOLOGIES for vagueness of measurements- this recipe is by Helen who never measures anything. You’re all clever people though so ad lib with the recipe below and I am sure you will work it out/make summat even tastier than this!...
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