Brown Rice Pilaf with Mushrooms and Apricots
From Whole Foods Market Serves 4 This is hearty, satisfying vegetarian fare that we’ve dished up in entrée-sized portions because all you need...
Broccoli and Stilton Soup with Stilton Croûtons
From BBC Food Our creamy broccoli soup with bubbling Stilton croutons is the perfect antidote to the winter blues. Ingredients 350g/12oz broccoli, florets...
Black-Eyed Pea Pâté with Pickled Onions on Flatbread Crackers
From Whole Foods Market Makes 24 Generous-sized appetizers, flavorful and satisfying for any crowd, including vegetarians and vegans. Ingredients 2 cups (from 1...
Better than Chicken Soup
From Whole Foods Market Serves 4 to 6 This immune-boosting soup is made with a virtual garden of powerful ingredients that contain beneficial nutrients...
Asparagus Soup
From BBC Food Make the most of the short asparagus season with this simple yet delicious soup. Ingredients 2 tbsp olive oil 1...
Alfresco Dip
From Whole Foods Market Serves 8 (yields about 3 cups) Something between pico de gallo and Insalata Caprese, this fresh, flavorful dip might...
Pumpkins & Squashes by Janet MacDonald – review
I am an enthusiastic home cook and a periodic professional cook, but I hold my hands up and admit that I have avoided using pumpkins...
Bean by Bean – a cookbook by Crescent Dragonwagon – review
Bean by Bean, it sounds like a wholesome and perhaps hippie subject and when one notices the name of the author, Crescent Dragonwagon, then one...
The Big Red Book of Tomatoes by Lindsey Bareham – review
I love that title The Big Red Book of Tomatoes. Comforting and very reminiscent of a Christmas Annual – one of those bumper volumes that...
Classic Vegetarian Cookery by Arto der Haroutunian – review
Arto der Haroutunian died too young. He has left a cult following and a series of books to remind us of the very reasons that...
Verdura – Vegetables Italian Style by Viana La Place – review
Summer in the UK. Where better to be …well, apart perhaps from Italy. And if we have that vision in our mind’s eye then perhaps...
The Greens Cookbook by Deborah Madison – review
The sub-title of The Greens Cookbook is Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine. It is considered by many to be a classic and now it’s back in print...
A Passion for Potatoes by Paul Gayler – review
I have only ever met one person who doesn’t like potatoes. What is not to like! They have a mild taste, come in different colours,...
Gorgeous Greens by Annie Bell – review
Well, it sounds like an oxymoron (ok, look it up). Gorgeous Greens. It’s an expression used by my parents and many others as a term...
Fork to Fork by Monty Don and Sarah Don – review
This is the revised edition of the original Fork to Fork of a decade ago. A few things have changed on the home-growing front in those...
Best Salads Ever by Sonja Bock – review
It’s summer and so we eat salad. Yes, we eat it but often without enthusiasm. Carnivores often consider salad as the green stuff left on...
Grown in Britain Cookbook by Carolyn Humphries – review
If you are British and in any way interested in organic produce, free range poultry and eggs, and low food miles then this could well...
Garden Feast by Melissa King – review
Growing our own food is becoming a popular pastime and for several very good reasons. Most of us are aware that we should be eating...