Archive for the 'Recipes' Category
We already have one recipe for Borscht (beetroot soup) on this site and you can find it here. This recipe is very similar but has a slightly different flavour and uses a canned beef consomme instead of stock or stock cubes (yes, you can use Oxo if you really need to) and also can be […]
October 7th, 2011 | Posted in Recipes | Comments Off on Cheats Borscht (Easy Beetroot Soup)
Two free recipes for courgette dishes that are easy to make and will complement any summer dish.
August 12th, 2011 | Posted in Allotment Diary, Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes | Comments Off on Courgette Recipes
At this time of year (mid October), we always seem to have a surplus of both apples and beetroot, particularly cooking apples. This recipe aims to use up some of this surplus in the form of a tasty starter dish that is both healthy and vegetarian. It can be made quickly and easily just before […]
October 17th, 2010 | Posted in Allotment Diary, Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes | Comments Off on Apple and Beetroot Salad
Beetroot: How to cook it, grow it, store it, preserve it and if I could I would tell you how to eat it as well! Links to traditional and some new recipes are also given.
October 5th, 2010 | Posted in Allotment Diary, General, Growing Vegetables, Recipes, Storing Vegetables | 7 Comments
At this time of year we usually have a fairly large number of green tomatoes left either in the greenhouse or on plants that have been grown outside. This year we grew a variety called “Tigerella” and we seem to have more than usual unripe fruit and so have decided to make green tomato chutney […]
October 3rd, 2010 | Posted in chutney, Preserves, Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes | 3 Comments
This recipe is a tasty way to use up those left over green or runner beans or it can be made with fresh beans, just boil or steam them quickly beforehand. We quite often mis-judge how many beans will be needed for a main meal and this is a good way to make sure nothing […]
August 31st, 2010 | Posted in Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes | Comments Off on Using Left Over Beans (Green Beans and Garlic Butter)