What to do with Beetroot

by katedh July 17, 2014

7 a Day Series , Eat More Veg , Salads , Spring , Summer , Vegan/Vegan Option , Vegetarian , Winter

What to do with Beetroot

Jump straight to the recipe ideas → "The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip" - Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume So here's a Thursday factoid for you. The biggest beetroot ever grown weighed 71kg. It was grown by a man in the Netherlands in 2005. This beetroot therefore weighed just slightly more than Tom Cruise (so the internet tells me. I haven't ...

by katedh June 12, 2014

7 a Day Series , Eat More Veg , Featured , Spring , Summer , Vegan/Vegan Option , Vegetarian , Wheat Free

What to do with Artichokes

Jump straight to the recipe ideas → "These things are just plain annoying. After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual food out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. Have the shrimp cocktail instead" - Miss Piggy So that 7 a day series I mentioned. A new vegetable each week and all that. Not really happened, has it? I ...

by katedh May 12, 2014

7 a Day Series , Dairy Free , Eat More Veg , Gluten Free , Spring , Vegan/Vegan Option , Vegetarian , Wheat Free

A is for Asparagus

"Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance" - Francoise Sagan So first up in the 7 a day series is asparagus. Not because it is alphabetically expedient but because it's brilliant and because it has an extremely short season and will be gone again by the end of June. Asparagus basically screams Spring. Arriving after the UK "hungry gap" of March/April where there is ...

by katedh May 12, 2014

7 a Day Series , Eat More Veg , Food Philosophy

Introducing…. the 7 a Day series

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon" - Doug Larson. So how is everyone getting on with this 7-a-day thing then? Nailing it? Thinking of ramping it up to 12 by next month? Yeah, didn't think so. To recap briefly for people living in a cave or non-UK readers: a recently published study by University College London whipped the British press into a frenzy by ...