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Brown Rice Chicken Salad

Brown Rice Chicken Salad

This tasty salad is made using brown rice for fibre, that’s been cooked in chicken stock, for extra flavour. Quick and easy to make, you don’t need to put the oven on when its baking hot and you just want some dinner.
Filling from the brown rice and those lovely vegetables, it’s less than 400 calories too! Inexpensive too to help those purses and wallets. 

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Chicken and Mushroom Crumble

Chicken and Mushroom Crumble

This gorgeous crumble has a nutty, seedy, oaty topping and a creamy, chicken and mushroom base. It will freeze very well, either cooked or uncooked. Lovely to have a home made ready meal in the freezer that just needs to be defrosted. 

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Aubergine Ragu – Eggplant Ragu – Melanzane a Funghetto

Aubergine Ragu – Eggplant Ragu – Melanzane a Funghetto

This is a very simple dish, cooked on the hob, in a single pan. Just aubergine, tomatoes and olive oil, simmered slowly to an unctuous silkiness. Absolutely gorgeous just on its own, hot or room temperature. Stir through pasta, top a jacket potato or use as part of a mezze. 

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Swede Mash (Rutabaga) with ginger, nutmeg and a little cream

Swede Mash (Rutabaga) with ginger, nutmeg and a little cream

This easy swede mash can be used a side or a main course. Make it vegan by using a vegan cream. Swede mash is a common side dish, but this has fresh ginger, generous nutmeg and chilli to add extra flavour and a touch of creaminess.
It tastes really good and may even convert small (or large!) veggie phobes!

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Easy No-Knead Focaccia

Easy No-Knead Focaccia

This vegan focaccia bread is light and fluffy, with a crunchy outside and you can top it with many different things. It goes with almost everything too! It’s a no-knead recipe, so you just need to stir it all together with a spoon and give it a little squish to amalgamate everything.

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Wild Garlic Pesto

Wild Garlic Pesto

Easy to make, wild garlic pesto is pungent, delicious and made from wild garlic foraged from the woods, or Allium triquetrum which is what I have growing in my garden.

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Broccoli and Lentil Soup

Broccoli and Lentil Soup

Had some broccoli to use up today, so decided to make some Broccoli and Lentil soup for lunch and a 4p Cheapy Bread Roll with it

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Mixed Vegetable Roulade

Mixed Vegetable Roulade

A vegetarian recipe using cauliflower stalks and pumpkin. Shredded lettuce and egg mayonnaise combine to create a creamy filling wrapped in a savoury sponge.

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