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Showing posts with label potatoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label potatoes. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 July 2010

More vegetable stew

Meat Free Monday is a campaign to raise awareness of the environmental impact of meat production and consumption. It encourages everyone to go meat free for one day a week and is a JOLLY GOOD IDEA.

This week I actually remembered about it. I bought lunch in the work canteen; an egg mayo sandwich, Quavers, a banana and a slice of sponge cake.

And it was all yellow.

In the evening I volunteered to tackle the new surfeit of vegetables, and settled on a veg stew, because you can just bung everything in it, innit. That's the magic! The magic of stew! I used this as a foundation, but I didn't have some of those vegetables, or those beans, and ended up changing it a fair bit. Makes round about enough for four. I served it with brown rice.

 
1 medium onion, peeled and chopped
1 (big) clove garlic, peeled and chopped
2 medium carrots
1 kohlrabi
2 medium potatoes
1 beetroot
1 small courgette
A small pile of broad beans, removed from their pods, if pods is the right word
2 big tomatoes, chopped
1 tbsp olive oil
1 normal sized tin baked beans in tomato sauce
½ tsp thyme
1 tsp Marmite
2 tsp Bouillon powder or 1 vegetable stock cube
A big squeeze of tomato puree
salt and pepper to taste
  • Pre-heat oven to 160°C
  • Heat oil in a large casserole dish.
  • Fry the onion and garlic together for 5-10 min on a low heat.
  • Scrub and sandblast/peel all vegetables.
  • Chop kohlrabi, potatoes and beetroot into 1cm cubes. In they go.
  • Slice carrots and courgette. In they go.
  • Add tomatoes, puree, thyme, marmite, broad beans and baked beans.
  • Add stock/bouillon and enough water to cover, stir it about, lid on, oven, 45 min. I added too much water so finished off with 10 minutes' intense hob action and a little cornflour to thicken.

Wednesday, 9 June 2010

Vegetarian shepherd's pie

Housemate K returned today having vowed to tackle the household vegetable mountain. We get a weekly delivery from Dig Food, who do good, locally sourced organic veg boxes, but we've been variously busy or away for a while and are faced with somewhat of a surfeit.

She made a very tasty vegetarian shepherd's pie, which made a significant dent. She then catalogued the remaining veg and filed them according to the dewey decimal system.

Her recipes and tips may well appear here from time to time, or she may just decide to do a blog of her own; she's quite competitive like that. Anyway, the secret to this, apparently, was roasting the carrots and parsnips first. Other stuff was added (Tomatoes? A secret blend of herbs and spices?) and mash, and cheese, and heat, and then we ate it.