Zucchini fritters

Zucchini fritters

I often end up buying zucchini than I need for a certain dish as they often come in batches. But what to do with a single zucchini…you could make fritters. Ingredients: Sliced zucchini – however much you have. 1 egg (for 2/3 of a zucchini. 

Oven baked Zucchini with tomatoes

Oven baked Zucchini with tomatoes

Easy, delicious and a great dish when having a zucchini or two – a bit soft (or fresh of course!) and tomatoes. Ingredients: 1 – 2 Zucchini 3 medium sized tomatoes 1 small handfull roughly chopped fresh basil 1/4 cup oil 1 buffalo mozzerella – 

Indian inspired curry with left over roast

Indian inspired curry with left over roast

The other night, we did a roast but ended up with too much meat and a few roasted potatoes. As this would be far from enough for a full meal, I decided to do a curry and serve this with a large dish of stir 

Carrot/Potato/Broccoli soup

Carrot/Potato/Broccoli soup

Carrots, potato and the stalk of a broccoli worked well together in this soup. To make it even more festive, I fried some bacon for topping. Ingredients: 200 g carrots 200 g potatoes 100 g stalk of a broccoli 1 clove minced garlic 1 chopped 

Apple and pear sauce

Apple and pear sauce

Apple and pear sauce, apple sauce, pear sauce …whichever you have…is so versatile and a great way to use wrinkled over ripe fruit. You can freeze it, use it for sorbets, filling in a dessert pancake, as a snack for the little one, topping on 

Apple/pear layer cake

Apple/pear layer cake

This cake came to life as I had some apples and pears that I used for an apple/pear sauce. This could have been frozen for later use in a dessert, made into sorbet, used as topping on your morning yogurt …or something else. I decided 

Aubergine/Eggplant

Aubergine/Eggplant

Eggplants are wonderful as fillings in various stews or alone, – sliced added with goats cheese and sage, breaded and oven baked, baked and mashed into a dip (baba ganoush) or layered in a vegetable “lasagna” replacing pasta and meat. They are quite versatile.

Cauliflower

Cauliflower

Cauliflower is delicious, – raw in small bulbs, in salads, ground, mixed with nuts, steamed, added to stir fries, stews, soups and more. As you buy them as a big head of cauliflower however, you might not use it all while still fresh and crisp. 

Carrots

Carrots

Of course – we all know carrots. Many use them raw for salads, sliced for snacks, juices and more. In our house, carrots are often eaten way before they turn soft and wrinkly – but sometimes it happens! And suddenly they just lie there as 

Fried rice

Fried rice

Another great dish where you can add a bit of everything…keep it vegetarian or add a bit of chicken, shrimp or meat. It always tastes good. In this recipe, I only added vegetables. You don’t need to add the same, the same amount or as