Zero Waste Recipes
Brief description of Recipe This recipe is brilliant for using up a glut in the garden. You can use courgettes that have turned into marrows and it’s a great way to make use of green tomatoes. This year, as we have so many courgettes, I have also made some courgette chutney, using this recipe as…
Read MoreThis recipe is adapted from a Mary Berry recipe. You can add a handful of red lentils to really bulk it out or substitute swede or parsnips if you don’t have carrots and sweet potato
Read MoreWhen friends give you courgettes, make curry!
Read MoreA great way of using up salad leaves with a twist!
Read MoreThis week there was only one loaf of bread left in our farm shop. It was so huge you could have scaled its North face. It eventually got so dry nobody wanted to eat it and I thought it would end up being fed to the compost heap. The previous night Little Miss Green had…
Read MoreA great way to use up left over chicken from a Sunday roast and the cream left in the pot!
Read MoreI had about 15 eggs here at zero waste towers the other week, and there’s only so much cake you can eat, so I put my creative mind to good use and came up with this yummy “use it up!” meal. It’s great because you can use up old stale bread, milk, cheese or cream…
Read MoreThis is my remix on a Shepherds pie – it’s pretty inauthentic but it’s a firm favourite! A traditional shepherds pie is made with lamb mince, fried onion and gravy, topped with mashed potato. It might have a small amount of peas or finely diced carrots in it. This recipe is vegan, using puy lentils…
Read MoreThis is a great recipe for using up all the odds and ends of vegetables, including things some people might normally throw away such as the green ends of leeks, broccoli stalks and the outer sprout leaves. As you might guess, these ingredients are rough as it depends what you have to have to use…
Read MoreChristmas is a distant memory again, but the turkey sitting in the fridge reminds us of full bellies. Here’s a simple use-it-up supper based on a strogonoff recipe
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