Currently Browsing: Food Waste Hero 9 articles
Horseradish Kohlrabi Slaw
Earlier this spring I signed up with OddBox which is a company that is fighting food waste by focusing on saving fruit and veg from farms by buying the things that have been overproduced or that grocery stores think are too weird to put on the shelf. I very much believe in their mission and […]
Indian Spiced Cauliflower
Sometime in the last couple of months I have decided I like cauliflower. Remembered I like cauliflower is probably a better way of putting it. When given the option of adding cauliflower cheese to a roast dinner when we’re out on a Sunday my answer is usually yes but for the longest time I didn’t […]
Mushroom Pilau Rice
I had an epiphany about pilau rice recently that has changed the way I look at aging veg in the fridge. It came after making Chetna Makan’s incredible one pot roast chicken and pulao rice. I had made pilau in the past and it was always so much more satisfying than plain rice but I […]
Courgette Pesto Flatbread
This recipe is a great example of how much the way I cook has changed in the last year. The major difference now is that I cook to minimize the amount of food we waste. In this case, lunch made from a variety of things that, each on their own, weren’t interesting but became much […]
Pasta Primavera with Asparagus
Once upon a time I worked for a vegetarian. A decent amount of my job was making dinner reservations for him and various guests. Even though we were in a large American city and it was the twenty first century the options for him as a vegetarian, even at very expensive restaurants, was shockingly limited. […]
Potato Leek Cheddar Soup
I used to think of soup as old people food. Don’t know why. The older people in my life didn’t necessarily eat a lot of soup but the connection has always been there. Maybe it’s that at my first waitressing job we had a soup and half sandwich special that seemed to bring in groups […]
Roasted Garlic and Onion Mash
I have really come to respect the work of the food stylist because only they would be able to truly make a bowl of mashed potatoes look good. Even when the potatoes are creamy rich with roasted garlic and onions a photograph will never have that satisfying resistance to your fork that says you’re about […]
Green Sauce
I’ve documented my struggles with lettuce and have to admit fresh herbs often fall prey to similar ambitions. I’m much better at making croutons than I am at making herb butters so sometimes the soft herbs go sludgy before I act more responsibly and use them. Fresh coriander and I have a special relationship though […]
No Bread Left Behind Croutons
A few years ago our local council started a food waste collection service. I absolutely see it as a service now, but the truth is, we were told we were going to be part of the trial program and they replaced our garbage bin with one half the size. It’s one thing to tell people […]