leek and feta risotto

I looked at all the pods from the broad beans, and thought “I should be able to make some stock with those”, so I threw them in the slow cooker with some water for a few hours. There were two rather tired leeks in the fridge, so they were sliced and sautéd in olive oil…

broad beans with pancetta and tuna

A bag of broad beans arrived in the veg box on Friday; we like ’em, but you don’t get many once you’ve removed them from the huge furry pods. I simmered them for about ten minutes, then drained, blanched, and put in a big bowl.  I fried off a pack of pancetta cubes and put…

chinese style green beans

Still more green beans to eat … Topped and tailed them, chopped into 2cm chunks (this is starting to sound like a repeat :).  Simmered for 6/7 minutes.   Drained and rinsed in cold water. Chopped an onion and some garlic, oh and some fresh ginger.  Heated groundnut oil in the wok, added about a…

lentil dosas

I’ve been wanting to make these ever since I spotted them in one of my bread books, but I’ve never been organised enough to do it – they’re remarkably simple, but you need to start them 32 hours in advance, according to the book. Take 3/4 cup of long grain rice (I used Basmati, as…

green beans and pasta

I reviewed the contents of the veg drawer last night – to my shame, there were two small turnips going mouldy, so they had to go.  A wide assortment of carrots was hurled into the slow cooker for carrot and coriander soup for lunch today.  And there were a lot of green beans. We like…

kabanos stew

Pete likes a kabanos sossidge with his lunch, and for years we bought packs of long ones (fnaar) from Costco.  Of late, sadly, they have only had the shorter kabanos in stock, which simply aren’t the same, and thus they don’t get eaten. I opened the box in the fridge a few days ago, because…

peach cobbler

I’ve wanted to make a cobbler for ever, but have never actually done it.  We were a bit overrun with soft fruits (we’re really bad at eating them), so I decided to have a bash. Cut up the peaches and nectarines, took out the stones, and put them in an ovenproof dish.  I tossed them…

chickpeas and chard

There was a bunch of swiss chard lurking in the fridge; and we were slightly over-tomato’d.  So I soaked some chickpeas overnight on Friday, and bunged them in the slow cooker with some boiling water at early o’clock on Saturday, so that we could construct something for supper. Sliced the chard into 1 cm strips,…

green beans and tomato

We’re a bit over veg’d this week, as we bought mushrooms and asparagus as well as the box, and so we’re starting to panic a bit over what’s left this week, given another box arrives tomorrow.  Think I’ll have to cancel next week’s … Tonight, we looked at the large number of runner beans, and…

the rest of the asparagus

scrambled eggs and asparagus, originally uploaded by ramtops. Well, we had it for lunch on Wednesday – I simmered it for five minutes, and I made some scrambled eggs with cream and butter, while Pete made some toast. When the asparagus was ready, I’m afraid we tossed it in butter too; if you’re going to…