Posts Tagged ‘vegetables’

Another irritating food post

Monday, January 5th, 2015 | Food

I recently bought myself a copy of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage Vegetable Cookbook and I have been using the downtime over Christmas to working through some of the recipes. I’ve had mixed results.

Disastrously Sainsbury’s online do not sell Swiss chard – this is figuratively a middle class nightmare. It is also difficult because every single recipe seems to start with “chop and then fry a large onion”…

Chakchouka

Mostly made of peppers and tomatoes, then you bake a couple of eggs in it. The egg was good. It also smells increasingly nice as you cook it.

chakchouka

Pinto Bean Chilli

A bit of a hassle to make because you have to soak the pinto beans overnight. You also need to add plenty of chilli. The first one I did I had deseeded the chilli and it was a bit bland, whereas the second one that included the seeds was much better.

pinto-bean-chilli

North African squash and chickpea soup

Barely looks anything like the picture.

squash-and-chickpea-stew

Pearl barley broth

To really get the croutons right you need to let the bread go stale.

pearl-barley-broth

Beetroot soup

Nicer than it sounds. But that is a fairly low bar to beat.

beetroot-soup

Squash and fennel lasagne

This is also a pain to make. You have to bake the squash while sautéing the fennel and boiling the sauce before combing it all together and baking some more. Very nice though, probably due to the quantity of cheese in it. I think I actually prefer fennel cold.

lasagne

Snowman

Friday, February 1st, 2013 | Photos

snowman

Not selling loose carrots when it snows is actually genius marketing by Sainsbury’s.

New experiences

Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | Life, Photos

Vegetables

As part of my aim to try new things, I gave some kind of new foodstuff a go today. It’s some kind of weird green thing that the nice lady in Co-op informs me is known as a “vegetable.” How very quaint.

Combined with the tomato ketchup I had I believe that counts as two of my five a day.