Recipes
Lentil 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 MoreSue’s savoury bread and butter pudding
Sue contacted me this week to share a family favourite recipe. I think you’ll agree it’s a great crowd pleaser and can be adapted to use up all sorts of things from the cupboard and fridge. Sue wrote: “I thought you might like my recipe for using up leftovers – savoury bread and butter pudding.…
Read MoreJane’s tomato and courgette chutney
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 MoreCarrot and sweet potato soup
This 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 MoreCourgette Curry
When friends give you courgettes, make curry!
Read Morelettuce rice soup
A great way of using up salad leaves with a twist!
Read MoreInstant Bacon Bites
This 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 MoreChicken and sweetcorn bake
A great way to use up left over chicken from a Sunday roast and the cream left in the pot!
Read MoreThree ways to use up bread crusts
Over on our Facebook page, Anne Marie shared these tips for using up bread crusts. But why should we bother?
Read MoreAccidental savoury bread and butter pudding
I 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…
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