What a title. This tastes nowhere near as worthy as ‘cabbage parcels’ sounds, and is a good one is you’re hosting vegetarians for dinner — just leave out the anchovies and use a veggie alternative to Parmesan. The filling can be mixed up in all sorts of ways to suit the contents of your fridge:…
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Squash & Sage Macaroni Cheese
Adapted from a BBC Good Food recipe Serves 4 Tip: no need to peel a butternut squash, just wash the skin well and it roasts up soft enough to eat. Ingredients ½ a butternut squash or 500g piece of pumpkin / other squash, peeled if required and chopped into chunks 1 onion, diced or finely…
Moroccan Squash, Chickpea & Kale Stew
Adapted from a BBC Good Food recipe Tips: 1. This tastes way better a day or two after it’s made. 2. Don’t bypass the feta/lemon zest/olive oil topping, it takes the whole dish up a notch. 3. If you’re short of time, you could swap out the cumin, cinnamon, turmeric, fennel seeds and ground coriander…
Roast Tomato, Feta & Basil Quiche
Ingredients 300g cherry tomatoes, halved A handful of fresh basil, leaves torn 100g feta cheese 100ml milk 3 eggs 150ml creme fraiche 2 tablespoons olive oil 280g plain flour, plus extra for dusting 140g cold butter Method Preheat the oven to 180C / gas 4. Toss the halved cherry tomatoes with olive oil. To make…
Sweet and Sour Vegetables
Quick, easy and SO much better than a takeaway. You could use any combination of veg here of course, but this one works well – the mushrooms bring savoury richness, and roasting the veg and pineapple first adds sweet, caramelised flavour. Definitely worth the small amount of extra time. This dish is also vegan (except…
Tortilla Pizza Cups
A healthy, quick and easy twist on pizza – or the tortilla pizza that I like to make – that children can get involved with making. There are lots of fun age-appropriate jobs they can help with: get them to choose the veg fillings, tear the mozzarella, grate cheddar and veg, practise their chopping skills,…
Ratatouille
This is better made the day before eating to allow all the flavours to deepen and combine. Photos courtesy of the P5s at West Barns Primary School, who enjoyed making this as part of their Plenty Project week. Serves 4 Ingredients 2 aubergines, chopped into 2cm pieces 4 courgettes, chopped into 2cm pieces 4 peppers,…
Roast vegetable tart with nut-free spinach / kale pesto
This classic easy dinner is a great one for children to help make. Rolling out and pricking the pastry, ‘painting’ it with egg and talking about different vegetables and how to prepare them gives lots of scope for involvement. Whizzing up the pesto is fun too – this one was devised with seasonality in mind…
Sesame chilli aubergine with halloumi and seaweed
A splendid dinner for one. Savoury and moreish, you’ll be so pleased you didn’t settle for a ready meal. Using sushi nori sheets is a really simple, accessible and delicious way to introduce seaweed into your diet. Ingredients 1 aubergine 3 slices halloumi cheese 1 teaspoon pickled ginger, finely chopped (or 1 teaspoon fresh ginger,…
Quick creamy mushroom and olive pasta
Very close to a stroganoff, but even slightly quicker. I challenge you to miss meat while eating this savoury, comforting dinner. Serves 4, generously Ingredients 500g mushrooms, sliced 4 tablespoons olives, well rinsed and roughly chopped 2 teaspoons thyme leaves or 1 teaspoon dried thyme 2 tablespoons chopped parsley 1 teaspoon paprika 150ml double cream or…
Mexican (ish) potato skins with refried beans, cheese and guacamole
This recipe works very neatly in tandem with gnocchi; it means you don’t have to waste those beautiful crispy potato skins once you’ve baked the spuds. It’s also a really cheap meal. Serves 2 Ingredients Cooked skins of 2 baked potatoes – just the skins, potato flesh removed 1 tablespoon jalapenos, finely sliced Refried beans 1…
Giant oven baked potato rosti
A simple supper, making something out of almost nothing. It’s categorised under ’30 minutes or quicker’, but it’s on the cusp – 20 of that’s in the oven though, so you can just have a sit down. Serves 4 Basic ingredients 800g potato 1 egg 1 onion Black pepper & salt A knob of butter…
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