Swede Patties
Caroline & the kitchen team made this for volunteers last week here at Hawkwood. It was absolutely delicious, sweet and wonderful! 1 large swede chopped chunky 1 onion – chopped 1 clove garlic ½ tsp coriander seeds 3 tbs Soya …
Wild rocket and spring garlic pesto
serves 2-3 * Bag of wild rocket, washed (about 70g) * 35-40g nuts of your choice – walnuts work well, or a add a few almonds. If you use cashews you can leave out the parmesan as they add a …
Super Salad Dressing – bean sprout season!
To your base of mixed leaves: * add soft green herbs (dill, mint, parsley, tarragon etc), * add a mix of seeds or nuts, toasted lightly in a hot but dry pan toasted seeds. * add a handful of beansprouts …
Stir Fry for 2 – bean sprout season!
Sprouts are seedlings, newborn plants just an inch or so long and mainly stem, which elongates to push the first set of leaves above ground into the sunlight. They are usually eaten raw or briefly cooked. Many different plants are …
Potage Bonne Femme (Leek & Potato Soup)
Suitable for good men as well as good women. Easy to make and delicious, warming, comforting… 2 tbsp olive oil 500g leeks 500g potatoes 300g carrots (optional) Vegetable stock Clean the leeks by slicing a cross in the top, the …
Purple Sprouting Broccoli – 4 ways with
From wild cabbages, more than a dozen major crops of very different kinds have developed: some leaves, some flowers, some stems. Then there are dozens of relatives including radishes, rocket, horseradish and watercress. The original weedy natives of the …
Vegetable & Coconut Soup
Easy to make using whatever veg you’ve got handy. Serves 4-6 2 onions (or 1 onion 1 leek), diced 2 tbsp vegetable oil 1kg root vegetables (a mix of eg turnip, potato, carrot, swede, squash), cubed 1-2 chillis, chopped 1 …
Cauliflower Steaks
Cauliflower Steaks This recipe comes by way of Spring Barns Farm, a centre for sustainable agriculture outside New York where the chef Dan Barber has been instrumental in encouraging chefs and diners in the US to think about what’s on …
Braised carrots & turnips with honey
This recipe is adapted from the Riverford (eek yes Riverford) Farm Cook book, which actually has a great selection of veg box orientated recipes. For the carrots: 600-800g carrots, trimmed and cut lengthways in half 40g butter (or glug …
Parnsip Celebration
The Parsnip Ruth Quinlan – Feb 2013 Earthy and sweet with gently distinct flavours of parsley, nutmeg and pine and a soft, fudgy texture. Goes with: *aniseed (eg fennel/fennel seeds/tarragon) * salty foods eg parmesan and stilton * nutmeg/ginger/clove (for …
Orange and coriander salad
Yes, that’s not a misprint! For some reason the flavours in this unusual salad just work. Very refreshing – perfect for a ‘bring on the summer’ ritual! Instructions Mix up a bag of salad leaves (rocket or something spicy is …
Jonny’s Fork to Fork Celeriac Soup
An easy to make soup for a winter’s evening. Jonny (Organiclea co-op member and regular Hornbeam cook) made this last Saturday night for our monthly Fork to Fork Supper club at the Hornbeam cafe. The evening is a three course …
