Vegetable Pasty Recipe
Recipe for Vegetable Pasty. Makes 4 and can be served hot or cold. Depending how you make the pastry, this recipe is suitable for vegetarians.
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Easy Pasta Tomato Sauce Recipe
Recipe for Easy Peasy Pasta Tomato Sauce. Serve spooned on top of freshly cooked pasta and finish with parmesan or grated cheese.
Masfouf – Couscous with Broad Beans and Peas Recipe
Recipe for Masfouf - Couscous with Broad Beans and Peas. Serve hot in a shallow dish or plate with a glass of Raib to accompany the meal.
Greek Style Courgette and Cheese Pie Recipe
Recipe for Courgette and Cheese Pie (Greek style). Absolutely delicious. Serve with a green salad and bread if necessary (the pie is filling on its own).
Jerusalem Artichoke and Carrot Salad Recipe
Recipe for Jerusalem Artichoke and Carrot Salad. Delicious with a toasted cheese sandwich or with potatoes Can be prepared in advance and kept in the fridge
Lemon, Marmalade and Courgette Cake Recipe
Recipe for Lemon, Marmalade and Courgette Cake. Very moist with a good lemon flavour. Serve on its own or with custard as a pudding.
Spiced Courgette Soup Recipe
Recipe for Spiced Courgette Soup. Easy to make and freezes well. Delicious served with a sprinkling of Lemon Pepper and crusty bread.
Courgette Soup with Boursin Recipe
Another Courgette Soup Recipe. This one with boursin (or equivalent). Serves 6 (or 12 if you like small bowls as it is very creamy). Freezes well.
Beetroot Cake Recipe
Recipe for Beetroot Cake. A lovely recipe. If not serving straight away, cover with clingfilm and chill and remove from fridge about 30 mins before eating.
Chocolate Courgette Cake Recipe
Recipe for Chocolate Courgette Cake. A good recipe for getting children to eat more vegetables! Use up the summer glut of courgettes
Filled Courgette Cake Recipe
Recipe Filled for Courgette Cake. A lovely cake and very easy to make. Another way to deal with the summer courgette glut!
Spicy New Potatoes Recipe
Recipe for Spicy New Potatoes Can be used as a side dish or turned into a main course by adding some cubed feta cheese or halloumi and finishing in a grill.
Chard and Asparagus Roulade Recipe
Recipe for Chard and Asparagus Roulade. Great as a light lunch for two or starter for 4. You can use spinach in place of the chard and different cheeses.
Rhubarb Vodka Recipe
Recipe for Rhubarb Vodka. This can be done with other fruit than rhubarb - for example, raspberry or blueberry. Makes a nice present.
Asparagus Risotto Recipe
Recipe for Asparagus Risotto. Feeds two. The beauty is you can substitute any vegetables throughout the year making this a versatile basis for many meals
Cheese and Potato Pie Recipe
Recipe for Cheese and Potato Pie. Serves 4 -6 depends how hungry you are. Nice hot or cold with a salad. Can use shortcrust or cheese pastry.
Garlic Stir Fry Noodles Recipe – Quick & Easy
Recipe for Quick 'n' easy Garlic Stir Fry Noodles (or rice). To serve put the noodles/rice into a bowl and pour your veg over the top.
Newcastle Brown Ale Stew Recipe
Recipe for Newcastle Brown Ale Stew. Can be served with the potatoes on top or with a bowl of new potatoes separate. Also good with dumplings.
Rhubarb Snow Recipe
Recipe for Rhubarb Snow. This dessert recipe is the perfect recipe for the springtime season of rhubarb when it is nice and tender. Serves 4 to 5.
Potato and Spinach Ring Recipe
Recipe for Potato and Spinach Ring. Cheese can be added to the potatoes and/or béchamel sauce and sprinkled over the potatoes before baking. Serves 3 to 4.
Asparagus Cream Cheese Quiche Recipe
Asparagus Cream Cheese Quiche Recipe. From the Grown in Britain Cookbook published by Dorling Kindersley with the Soil Association and used with permission.
Aztec Pie Recipe – Mexican Beef & Tortilla Layer
Recipe for Aztec Pie. Made principally with beef and is a good use for any lottie grown peppers, toms or chillies. Serve with golden rice. Enough for 6.
5 A Day Curry Recipe – Thai Mixed Vegetable Curry
5 A Day Curry Recipe - Thai Mixed Vegetable Curry. You can change the vegetables to suit your taste. Serve with boiled Basmati rice and Naan bread.
Carrot Cake Recipe
Carrot Cake Recipe. If you want to freeze it, leave it un-topped and put the topping on when de-frosted. Simple and easy to make.
Fruit Flapjack Recipe
Recipe for Fruit Flapjack. Perfect for breakfast on the run or in school lunchboxes. You can even pretend its healthy what with all the cereals and fruit!
Blueberry Muffins Recipe
Recipe for Blueberry Muffins. They are really easy to make. The important thing to remember is DON'T use a mixer and DON'T over mix. Makes 12-14 muffins.
Apple and Blackberry Slump Recipe
Recipe for Apple and Blackberry Slump. Despite the fact this has got ½ lb of mascarpone in it, a jug of custard really is a must, or cream or icecream!
Melba Summer Pudding Recipe
Recipe for Melba Summer Pudding. Make the best of summer fruit. Can be served with Low Fat Creme Frais, or with cream, it's your choice! Enough for 4 people
Spiced Cranberry Shrub Recipe
Recipe for Spiced Cranberry Shrub. Shrub is a name which is borrowed from the Arabs - fruit sherbet drink. Makes 4 glasses and takes 5 minutes.
Italian Bread Pudding Recipe
Recipe for Italian Bread Pudding a twist on the British. This is really easy to make. Serve warm with cream. For a skinny option you can use creme fraiche.
Moist Banana Bread Recipe
Recipe for Moist Banana Bread. Ideal for using up any old mushy black bananas! Very moist and keeps for days (if not gobbled up all in one day).
Plum Jam 2 Recipe
Another recipe for Plum Jam. There is enough jam for 8 jars about 450g in each or whatever you have. This jam is lovely on rice puddings or on Ice cream.
My Grannies Apple and Rhubarb Chutney Recipe
Recipe for My Grannies Apple and Rhubarb Chutney. Leave for a couple of months, somewhere cool and dark, before eating. Great with cheese and cold meats.
Persian Baked Stuffed Melon Recipe
Recipe for Persian Baked Stuffed Melon. Kavun dolmasi or stuffed melon is one of those dishes that has existed since the 15th century, maybe even earlier.
Banana Bread Recipe
Recipe for Banana Bread. Moist and delicious with loads of banana flavour! Once tasted you'll never throw away those ripe bananas again.
Quince Cheese Recipe
Recipe for Quince Cheese submitted by Swing Swang. Once cool the cheese should be as solid as a soft bit of cheddar. Will keep for a few weeks in the fridge
Mulled Pears Recipe
Recipe for Mulled Pears. An impromptu dessert that would work really well as a trifle base. As an added bonus you get to drink the Mulled Wine too.
Grandma’s Gooseberry Upside-down Cake Recipe
Recipe for Grandma's Gooseberry Upside-down Cake. For the very best way to eat gooseberries do try this family recipe. Great served with ice-cream.
Grape Pudding Recipe
Recipe for Grape Pudding. A delicious desert that works well with most soft fruits. Enough for 4 to 6 people and lovely served with custard.
Apple & Cape Gooseberry Sauce Recipe
Recipe for Apple and Cape Gooseberry Sauce. The Raspberry vinegar is optional but it does add to the fruity sweet and sourness.
Rhubarb Mousse Recipe
Recipe for Rhubarb Mousse. A very easy to make sweet-tart creamy dessert that is eaten chilled.
Cranachan Recipe – Scottish Whisky Laced Raspberry Dessert
Recipe for Cranachan. A traditional Scottish Whisky Laced Raspberry Dessert that is absolutely delicious! Very rich so a little goes a long way.
Gardeners’ Chicken Recipe
Recipe for Gardeners' Chicken. Green salad contrasts well with this dish and if you feel extra hungry, serve with ciabatta bread (or similar).
Spaghetti Cheese Recipe
Recipe for Spaghetti Cheese. Uses a selection of vegetables and tomato chutney which, if you make your own, will taste even better. Serves 2.
Welsh Sausages Recipe
Recipe for Welsh Sausages. An easy vegetarian cheese based recipe that children love to make and eat Fairly cheap and freezes really well. Makes 8 sausages.
Caraway Seeds Potatoes Recipe
Recipe for Caraway Seeds Potatoes. A lovely vegetarian filling dish, best served with a green salad. Enough, perhaps more than enough, for 2 people.
Spiced Apple Cake Recipe
Recipe for Spiced Apple Cake. Easy to make but really impressive. The spices and the apple keep the cake moist and it will last for at least 4 days in foil.
Basic Focaccia Bread Recipe
Recipe for Basic Focaccia Bread. If you wish to put fillings in, put with the flour, salt and yeast. The added bits will just disappear as the bread rises.
Sweet Orange and Chilli Chutney Recipe
An easy recipe for Sweet Orange and Chilli Chutney which gives a clever balance of the orange sweetness and chilli heat in this unusual chutney
Simple Fried Rice Recipe
Recipe for Simple Fried Rice - a quick, easy and filling dish. You can vary the recipe by adding, for example, prawns, leftover cold pork or ham.
