tired brassica pakoras

Sorry, more sprouts, but that’s the last of them for now, I promise.  Oh, and Pete wrote this, hence the long spice list! These pakoras were made with leftover cooked sprouts and an aging quarter cabbage lurking in the fridge veg drawer, but anything similar would do! Cauliflower, peas, potatoes – great way to use…

winter is coming

Well, rather, autumn is here, and we’re back to more suitable cooking for the season. I spent a lot of time in the kitchen this weekend; I made bread, pizza dough, and peanut butter and choc chip cookies on Saturday (recipes to come, I promise, but I’m still tweaking a bit), and on Sunday I…

haricot beans and cabbage

  The remains of the haricots from the shepherds’ pie mix. What to do with them? There was a cabbage in the fridge. There’s nearly always a cabbage in the fridge, and we are very samey with the way we use it, so I thought I’d do a little experiment. So I chopped about 30g of…

a tale of two cabbages

Pete manfully did the shopping last weekend, as I wasn’t feeling very well, and amongst everything else, he bore home a cabbage. This went nicely with the cabbage that was already sitting in the veg drawer, but no problem – we like cabbage (just as well, really). On Tuesday, we had cabbage with mozarella; we…

cabbage with pancetta and mozzarella

We normally have this without the pancetta, but I’m trying to cut my carbs at the moment so I added some meat. I make this in a frying pan with a lid. Chop and onion and some garlic, and fry it off in olive oil. Add the pancetta (I used cubes – you could use…

cabbage in coconut

This works really well with purple sprouting broccoli, or spring greens, and is delicious.  I’d never actually made it with cabbage before, but nothing ventured, etc. It was a small hispi cabbage, and I cored out all the thick stem, and shredded it up.  Blanched it in boiling water for a couple of minutes, then…

cabbage and pancetta risotto

As you may recall, we have a bit of a cabbage glut, so I’ve been desperately trying to use them up.  This is what I did on Friday night, and it worked rather well! Sliced a red onion and sautéd it in some olive oil with a packet of pancetta cubes.  While that was cooking,…

cabbage, bacon and mozzarella

We seem to have a cabbage glut – two of them in the fridge at the start of the week, which is bad planning. I mandolined half of one on Monday for this week’s soup, so only one and a half to go … There were a few bits (I couldn’t call them rashers, really)…

corned beef hash

Having tackled some of the sprout overload on Wednesday night, we looked at the 1.5 cabbages in the fridge yesterday and thought “we really should eat some of that”. So – cut up a couple of biggish spuds into smallish chunks, and put them in the bottom half of the steamer to boil.  Shredded not…

cabbage and chicken risotto

using up: cabbage, the very last of last week’s roast chicken. Now, I really didn’t expect this to work at all, but it was really nice, and will be added to my repertoire of cabbage recipes; we get a lot of cabbages in the veg box, so a new dish is quite exciting!  I think…