Recipes, Vegetarian...

+1 for the Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall Veg book, we've been making lots of the recipes and they have all been great.

All easy to follow and easy to cook, so far :)

Cheap in Tescos at the moment, got it for the wifes birthday... a present that keeps on giving.

Recipe for DFP's special spinach;

Get a 1kg bag of frozen spinach (not chopped) or about 5 large bunches of spinach/kale from your greengrocer. At this time of year, frozen is your only feasible option and much more convenient.

Wash & chop the spinach if you got fresh (removing roots). If you have kale, chop thinly.

Slice one medium onion thinly. Add or reduce quantity to taste.

Crush 4-5 cloves of garlic.

Slice or split a handful of green chillies.

Pour loads of oil into a large pan/wok and place on high heat.

Put in chillies & onion. Cook briefly, then add spinach and garlic. (if kale add immediately)

Cook on high heat, use a lid until spinach either defrosts or wilts. Then cook without lid.

Add salt and cook until onions are pretty dissolved. And majority of water has dried up.

Ideally eat with rice, but ok with other things too.

Been getting into baked potatoes a lot recently. Karate chop works well.

Go forth and spread the word

Been getting into baked potatoes a lot recently. Karate chop works well.

Go forth and spread the word

How strange... not had one in ages (possibly years) but the last few weeks I've had one every Wednesday as my partner and I do a circuits class and it's the perfect end (i.e. can leave it in the oven for 90 mins and not worry). As soon as we get back some lovely food for hardly any effort.

turnip and swede in the veggie pasty

would also suggest adding a strong cheese to the filling (possibly even a blue cheese), in lumps so you get the odd cheesy mouthfull

My flatmate thinks it wasteful to use the Oven for a baked potato, but then she harps on about how great Agas are for toast.

"Ah but the Aga heats the whole house too!"
"So do you not cook with it during the summer?"
"..."

Well, it is fairly wasteful for a single potato. (gas less wasteful than electric)

You also do not need an aga to cook toast in that "special way". I do it when camping, you just put a piece of toast on a dry frying pan. Goes brown surprisingly quickly, perhaps even faster than a toaster if it werent for that fact you have to do each side separately.

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Pak Choi Noodle Soup
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Super easy and quick, well tasty.
you will need:
Tofu
Noodles
Stock (cubes i use)
Chillis
Garlic
Ginger
Pak Choi

Start by boiling 2 pans of water (1 for stock, 1 for the noodles) and heating a fry pan with a little oil in it.
Chop the garlic, ginger and chillis and chuck in the fry pan (i also added salt, pepper and chilli flakes)
once its softened a bit put the tofu in (takes about 10 mins to cook)
Cook the noodles at this time too (takes about 6-8mins for Udon)
Once the noodles are cooked, drain and put in with the tofu in the fry pan, but remove from the heat
Put the pak choi in the stock and cook for a couple of minutes to soften

Serve into large bowls (stock, noodles, pak choi and tofu all in together)
Eat

Proper tasty.

I have 9 medium sized courgettes in the fridge. Anyone know what I can do with them? Normally I'd use one or two in a meal but I need to use them all before they go off.

All I can think of is ratatouille or stir-fry.

Not had this particular one, but courgette curries are great.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chickpeaandcourgette_90980

I'll try it, gives me something to do anyway.

Happy cooking, report back how it goes please

^ Want. Have heard amazing things about this book.