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.
- 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...
Carrot top pesto pasta with roasted carrots
Carrot top pesto pasta with roasted carrots
From: Helen- sorry I don’t measure anything
Prep Time: 20 Mins
Cooking Time: 20 Mins
Total Time: 30 Mins
Yields: Enough for four peeps
Ingredients:
- Big bunch of carrots with tops on
- Few handfuls pine nuts, cashews, whichever nuts ya fancy or have in the cupboard
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Pepper
- Cooked pasta to serve
- Food processor makes this a breeze
- Top the carrots and give em a scrub.
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.
- Chop up the beetroot and potato into small chunks and boil under tender
- Blend up with the veggie stock and dill
- Add black pepper to taste
- Serve with a blob of yogurt and fresh herbs if youve got some
Spaghetti Squash and sauce
Spaghetti Squash and sauce
Total Time: 1 Hours 20 Mins
Yields: Enough for 4 peeps
Ingredients:
- 1 large spaghetti squash
- 4 large onions, chopped
- 2 tins tomatoes, or fresh
- 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- Handful of chard, chopped up very fine
- Cup of sundried tomatoes, rehydrated and chopped into small chunks
- Veggie stock or celery salt
- Good handful of fresh basil leaves or dried
- Sprinkling of black olives and more basil to garnish
- Quarter the Spaghetti Squash and roast the in the oven at around...
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
- Sunflower seeds
- Pumpkin seeds
- Soy sauce or tamari
- Fry onions in veg oil in a deep pot
- Chop up the squash and lob in
- Turn down pot to a simmer and pour in veg stock
- Add some paprika (smoked paprika is nice if...
Vegan Fig Tarte Tatin
Vegan Fig Tarte Tatin
Prep Time: 30 Mins
Cooking Time: 30 Mins
Total Time: 1 Hours 0 Mins
Ingredients:
- pinch of salt
- 225g flour
- 100g margarine
- 2 1/2 tbsp cold water
- 100g sugar
- 1tsp powdered vanilla, or 1 vanilla pod
- 8-10 figs
- 75g margarine
- In a large bowl mix the salt and flour.
- Gradually add the margarine in small pieces and mix well using a hand mixer (or spoon / hand).
Chard Filo Layer Pie
Chard Filo Layer Pie
From: Helen
Prep Time: 45 Mins
Cooking Time: 25 Mins
Total Time: 1 Hours 10 Mins
Yields: One big pie
Ingredients:
- Sheets filo pastry (I used bought frozen pastry sheets)
- About 3 large bags of chard (use loads it cooks down to a really small amount)
- Oil
- 3 Onions
- Block of firm tofu
- Lemon juice
- Dried dill
- Sesame seeds
- Chop and fry onions in a little oil until soft, put to one side
- Chop up chard into quite small bits and steam...
Purple coleslaw
Purple coleslaw
From: Helen
Prep Time: 20 Hours 0 Mins
Total Time: 20 Hours 0 Mins
Yields: Big bowlful to share
Ingredients:
- 1/2 Red cabbage
- 2 raw beetroots
- Mayonaise of choice
- Herbs to garnish
- Grate half of the cabbage, and chop up roughly the other half.
- Grate the beetroot up.
- Mix em both together and coat with mayonaise. I am a massive vegan so made this mayonaise http://peanutbutterandvegan.com/april-all-natural-day-5/ (Clever recipe- made out of oil and water from a tin of chickpeas- honest!)
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
- 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.
Waterland’s finest brassica shoots
Waterland’s finest brassica shoots
From: Helen (that’s why there’s no measurements- sorry but it’s how I roll)
Prep Time: 3 Mins
Cooking Time: 10 Mins
Total Time: 13 Mins
Ingredients:
- Handful of Waterland’s finest brassica shoots for each person
- Chopped onion
- Clove or two of garlic
- Rapeseed oil
- Chinese five spice
- Pinch salt or a splash of soy sauce
- Twist of black pepper
- So chop your onion and garlic and cook til soft or however you like it in a bit of oil...