Planet Veggie

I’ve been a bad domestic goddess over the past couple of weeks. I’ve only cooked one meal from scratch; the rest of the time we’ve either eaten out or been living on pie and chips, takeaway pizza, ready-made tortellini with ready-made pasta sauce and garlic bread, although peas did make a brief appearance on the [...]

This was so quick and easy. You can use whatever you need to use up in the fridge. 1 packet of ready-rolled puff pastry 2 tablespoons sundried tomato puree 2 portabella mushrooms 1 leek 1 pack of mozzarella 1 tomato salt and pepper olive oil Spread the sundried tomato puree over the pastry. Slice the [...]

I think I’ve made the perfect soup. Or is it just that you can’t go wrong if you add chilli and cheese to everything? Either way, this soup was amazing. No exact quantities, it was a chuck it in the pan with some stock and see what happens kind of soup.  Spicy potato and cabbage [...]

I wanted to cook something tonight instead of heating up something frozen from a packet (like I often do on Fridays) but I didn’t want to go shopping for ingredients and so I looked in the fridge and there was a red pepper, a bag of spinach, some green beans and a savoy cabbage. I [...]

The Meat Eater was very successful at growing chillies this year and ended up with a greenhouse full of them. Which is a good thing as I love chillies but what to do with so many? Chilli jam, that’s what. Chilli jam sounds weird. And that’s because it is weird. It’s not jam like you’d [...]

I hadn’t planned anything for dinner tonight and didn’t want to get moaned at by The Meat Eater so thought I’d better rustle something up and so I had a look on the BBC Good Food website to see what they had involving cabbage, as I had some left over from last week’s Riverford vegetable [...]

I got sent one of these in this week’s Riverford box. After ignoring the old ‘Google is your friend’ thing, I posted a photo of it on Facebook and asked what it was. I got the following answers: ‘No idea – I’d probably draw it!’ ‘Put batteries in it and sit on it…. ?’ ‘Whatever [...]

I had planned to make Lazy cheesy vegetable hotpot from the BBC Good Food website but I didn’t have any leeks and I didn’t want to cook it in the microwave, so I kind of did my own thing and I’m glad I did, as the result was The Meat Eater telling me to never [...]

I don’t recall ever having stuffed a pepper before. Mushrooms, yes, and I vaguely recall stuffing a tomato some time back in 1994 but peppers? No. This is probably because I’m not mega keen on cooked peppers. Well, I wasn’t mega keen on cooked peppers, but I’ve changed my mind. These were delicious. This recipe [...]

After all the interest in my giveaway of Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar (see blog post below: hello all you freeloaders from the Money Saving Expert forums), I thought I’d make something out of it and having all the ingredients for the peanut butter blondies in the cupboard negated any need to go to [...]