This is one of my standbys when I’m tired and feeling unimaginative. It was especially fabulous when I gave up meat for Lent this year, and promptly regretted it because I couldn’t cope with long work days and then being…
Category: legumes
Recipe: One step up from takeaway
Today is the first day of my holidays, which means that I am exhausted to the point that I spent about ten minutes wandering around the kitchen at lunchtime today dithering about how to make a salad and continually opening…
Recipe: Roast Garlic and White Bean Chilli
Photographic evidence of Cross-Dressing Ken’s latest cake adventures will be up later this evening, but I just need to get this recipe down before I forget what I did! This is another vegan chilli recipe, but this time it’s gluten…
Recipe: Vegetarian Chilli
DON’T FORGET TO SOAK YOUR BEANS! (putting them in to soak before you go to work in the morning is fine) This recipe is adapted from one of the Moosewood Cookbooks – I’m afraid I can’t recall which, as I…
Leftovers for Lunch: Roasted Vegetable and Chickpea Salad
I love roast vegetables. About once a fortnight, I will do a huge roast vegetable fest – one enormous tray of potatoes, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions and beetroot, cut into chunks and the potato and beetroot parboiled, and then…
Recipe: Lentils with Peppers
This recipe is my adaptation of a recipe in Cook Simple by Diana Henry. Diana Henry’s recipe is an adaptation of a recipe in A Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden. And so the cycle of recipe-adaptation continues. …