Leftover Pie
Potato Peel Cookies
If you’ve started Rachelle’s fantastic Waste Less, Enjoy More During Lockdown course you’ll love this recipe. Mr Pitt has never really been a fan of the potato skin crisps I make, so the skins were often ending up in the compost these days as I can’t eat them all myself and we are not expecting…
Read MoreLentil bake – the IBS friendly way
I recently had the experience of cooking for a friend who has to avoid a whole load of staple ingredients that I use (and she used to use) all the time. She can’t eat any pulses that have skins. I had never thought about pulses having skins! Apparently red lentils don’t. She can’t eat onions,…
Read MoreThe Nose to Tail Approach – A solution to Reducing Food Waste?
The ‘nose to tail’ approach is a food philosophy that aims to use all parts of an animal. A similar approach can also be used with fruits and vegetables, sometimes known as ‘root to fruit’, whereby all parts of a crop that are edible in one form or another are used. Many top chefs have…
Read MoreSharing the love(ly food)
Olio Your bags are packed, and you are off on your long-awaited holiday. But wait! You realise you have half a lettuce, two tomatoes, half a packet of cheese and a bit of cucumber left in your fridge. Oh, and half a pint of milk too and half a loaf of bread. Years ago almost…
Read MoreHow to host your own DISCO soup
Want to hold your own DISCO SOUP event? Here are some links that will tell you all about it. We like this video from Feedback: Feedback have produced a toolkit to help you run your event. You can get that here. And Slow Food has put together this instruction booklet of how to run…
Read MoreMaking the most of your Christmas food?
I was asked by my local council to make some short videos to help people reduce their waste over Christmas, and get more from the food they buy. The spike in food waste at Christmas is a big worry for councils, who have to pay to dispose of our Christmas excesses. Turkey pie for dinner…
Read MorePumpkin Pie
I spent years avoiding pumpkin pie as most recipes I’ve seen are full of cream, which I can’t eat. But when I went for dinner at The Roebuck, in Borough, South London, with head chef Jareth Mills, that changed. Jareth, who contributed two recipes for Leftover Pie, had specially made a pumpkin pie for me,…
Read MoreTired Salad Soup
It has been party time so my sister and I both raided our veg patches to pick salad leaves to accompany a bbq. My sis has green fingers and she brought loads of salad. The good thing about salad from your garden is that it will last ages. Think about this… how many days ago…
Read MoreSerendipity soup
Last weekend when the weather was still cold and miserable, we had our usual roast dinner on Sunday evening. We generally plan to have leftovers, that we can use up throughout the week. On Tuesday I foraged in the fridge for some lunch and found the leftover veg. I thought it was odd that there…
Read MoreBanana skin crisps
Since the start of the year, The Pitt family has taken up the challenge of not buying anything in single-use plastic packaging. We first did this for a month in 2014 – not quite during Plastic-free July, but just after, as a practice run for a year long challenge of living without single use plastic…
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