Savoury vegetarian rice with butternut squash and cauliflower

With so much meat and dairy over the Christmas break, today was an opportunity to create a vegetarian rice based lunch. I peeled and diced a butternut squash yesterday and popped it in the fridge, ready to use, so was originally going to make butternut squash risotto, but discovered...

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Getting enough vitamins and minerals is easy with juicing organic fruit and veg!

My new fridge freezer is brilliant, I've got the space to store all the fruit and veg we need. There's only 2 of us, but we do get through a lot of veg between us, we always eat vegetarian meals where possible for our lunches plus we always eat veg with our evening meals. We...

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Why do I crave fresh juice? Geocaching here we come!

My poor Sage juicer has been sat unused for a few months, today though, I craved fresh fruit/veg juice for my breakfast.I decided to follow my craving and grabbed the following organic veg and fruit that came in my Riverford order before Christmas:- Ingredients 2 small apples 1...

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Christmas Wishes

Our preparations are underway, I'm getting ahead and pre-prepping everything that I can in the kitchen, then tomorrow I simply need to do the final cooking. We've collected the goose from Michael Coleman at Hewish Farm, the turkey from Danestream, and our organic vegetables,...

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A veg fest

The disappearing veg act. On Sunday, I popped into our local Waitrose to pick up something for dinner. It had been a very wet and cooler day, poor hubby had been out at an event all day and was going to be very soggy when he got home, so we thought it would be great to do a...

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Turkey Pitta kebabs with Tashi sauce (Cypriot style)

When it's so hot, you don't fancy cooking over a hot stove, perhaps the BBQ is calling you. This is a quick and very easy dinner to make. Perhaps you are having a BBQ and would like something different to serve that's simple to prepare ahead and guests can serve themselves. Basically,...

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Chicken with Capers (thank you Hairy Bikers)

It's too hot to use the oven, but I wanted to cook something other than salad this evening. Hubby had been shopping, and it was a "Ready, Steady, Cook" kind of evening, only a few ingredients available, so I needed to use what was in the fridge and larder. Starting point.......

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Chicken lasagne

If you are gluten free and don't eat red meat, it's difficult to find a lasagne that you can eat. We also eat lots of veg, so I decided it was time to get a decent lasagne dish, some gluten free lasagne sheets and bone and skinless chicken thighs. I made a large lasagne as the...

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Sunset juice

To increase vitality, reduce stress and build the immune system, we are increasing the amount of fresh organic vegetables and fruit in our diet. Last year I bought a brilliant juicer that removes all of the juice and the residue is really dry, it was a Sage juicer.Our Riverford...

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