10 Tasty Tomato Recipes

Tomatoes are busting with goodness and look great on the plate. From chutney and jelly to pasta and quiche, and hot and cold soups, here are ten tasty recipes to try.

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10 Tasty Broccoli Recipes

Broccoli is one of the best vegetables for you. Here are 10 ways to cook it from pancakes and pasta, to rice, noodles, quiche and soup.

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What to Do with Pak Choi

This week’s box has: • Potatoes • Turnips • Raw beetroot
• Carrots • Cabbage • Parsnips • Pak choi

The beetroot will definitely get juiced, the parsnips will be made into one of the recipes in my 10 Tasty Parsnip Recipes post and I quite fancy the Honey Creamed Turnips here.

What is Pak Choi?
This week’s [...]

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10 Tasty Parsnip Recipes

1 • Parsnip and Carrots with Soy, Honey and Orange
Roasted parsnips with a tasty twist. (From waitrose.com)
2 • Parsnip and Caramelised Onion Tart
Parsnips cased in pastry and wrapped in cheesy yumminess. (From waitrose.com)
3 • Irish Parsnip Cakes
Quick parsnip patties made from cupboard staples. (From cdkitchen.com)
4 • Parsnip Soup
A pleasing, stomach-warming mix of parsnips, leeks [...]

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10 Great Spinach Recipes

1• Parmesan Spinach Cakes
Full of cheesy and spinachy yumminess. Use as part of breakfast with sausages, as a side dish or as part of a main meal. (From www.eatingwell.com)

2• Spicy Baked Eggs with Spinach and Yoghurt
A quick, Turkish-style egg dish with a spicy kick. (From www.waitrose.com)
3• Shrimp and Orange Spinach Salad
Perfect for anyone who loves [...]

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10 Tasty Brussels Sprouts Recipes

1• Pan-Fried Brussels Sprouts with Red Onion, Chilli and Cumin Seeds
Eat on its own, add cheese or use as an accompaniment to meat. (From eatthinkandbemerry.wordpress.com)
2• Stir-Fried Sprouts with Chestnuts
Brussels sprouts and chestnuts . . . that’s Christmas on a plate. (From www.waitrose.com)
3• Brussels Sprouts in Onion Butter
The chicken stock and onions add more flavour to [...]

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What to Do with Brussel Tops

My veg box comes with a small newsletter/order form each week and on this it tells you what you might expect in next week’s box. This week it listed brussel tops, which is something I haven’t seen in the box for months.
When I first got brussel tops I didn’t know what to do with them. [...]

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Kohl Rabi – What It Is and What to Do with It

So, What’s This Kohl Rabi Then?
Introducing the Sputnik Cabbage Turnip . . .
Kohl Rabi seems to be most commonly described as a spherical, Sputnik-like relative of the cabbage. Translate its name and the German ‘kohl’ becomes cabbage, while the ‘rabi’ is linked to the word Rübe, which is Swiss-German for turnip (a reference to its [...]

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Places to Find Good Recipes Online

WEBSITES
• Waitrose
This is a very well designed recipe finder. Just put your main ingredient in the search field and it will come up with a list of recipes and pictures so you know what to expect of the final result. In the advanced recipe finder you can choose by keyword, main ingredient, course, cooking time [...]

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Cabbage Soup Recipes

Cabbages are extremely nutritious so a cabbage soup gives a great vitamin boost. Here is my cabbage soup recipe as well as a list of other cabbage soup recipes to try…

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