Vegetarian Foods Archive

This marigold yellow pasta with marmalade coloured roasted peppers and butternut squash was lunch for work - twice, last week.   As I was tucking in, it got some of my colleagues all intrigued and curious 'Gosh, that pasta is glowing'. The pasta is simply infused with turmeric powder.  I've also tried this method with beetroot See HERE .   Although I have used ready made penne pasta here, you could easily make vegan Turmeric pasta from scratch too, just add a teaspoon or half to the flour when your mixing and kneading.  Anyway, the turmeric pasta on its own was a bit bland, so I decided to make make a vinaigrette dressing for it with some Blood Oranges that were mingling with the lemons in a bowl. The Blood Orange Chilli Oil was spicy and quite tasty elevated by the addition of my bottle of Welsh Blodyn Aur Rapeseed Chilli Oil.    Of course, you can make your own Chilli Oil at home and I probably would had I grown my own chillies, but sometimes whe...

I didn't fancy Harvest Monday  is hosted by Dave over  Our Happy Acres  ;  making a cake or muffins with the strawberries coming from my garden and then I remembered strawberry spinach salads.   Well its been Harvest Monday  is hosted by Dave over  Our Happy Acres  ;   over 10 years I have been reading about Strawberry Spinach Salad in cookbooks, hearing about it from foodie friends and seeing it  on blogosphere, yet never tried it until the the weekend and since Saturday we have had it three times.  yes three times including today. Of course, I had to make some of my own tweaks to the recipe that I eye-balled, the asparagus for a start. A while back my sister in law had gifted me with a bottle of strawberry vinaigrette, its really easy to make at home, but nicer to be given one - makes a quick and easy recipe even easier.  If you don't have either, you can easily substitute it with sherry vinegar or white wine v...

The Easter long weekend was a relatively chilled one.  On Good Friday, we stayed at home. It was wet.  On Saturday w e went to Abergavenny . It was drizzly. And yesterday we were in the allotment garden plot.  I did a little bit of digging and weeding, but mostly I helped D replace the numerous smashed glass panes in the greenhouse, so that it can be used for growing seedlings again, though we both know that we are again, a month or so behind many other allotment-holders and vegetable growers .   Whilst out in the allotment garden plot we saw an amazing sight.  Two herons flying directly above us.    Herons do indeed look like birds from a prehistoric time. For a few moments, they sat on a tree, then they flew off making as much noise as they arrived . We have seen some amazing birds since moving here, but to see herons flying above us, now that was Amazing.  Today, its Monday - a Bank Holiday in the UK and yes, of course it is ra...