Recipes
Cooking is about sharing & its about inspiring!
Recipes should be a guide, they should be there for you to absorb and make your own. Be present, think about what you are doing and more importantly why you’re doing it - this is how you learn to cook, rather than learn just how to follow recipes (believe me, there is a huge difference). You’ll be devising your own recipes and creating masterpieces from fridge leftovers in now time! Tweak, change, adjust - don’t be afraid to try, don’t be afraid to make mistakes! Take notes, learn! Cook to your own palates and your own likes/dislikes! That is what recipes are there for!
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Miso Banana Caramel ‘Leftover Rice’ Rice Pudding & Toasted Hazelnuts
Rice Pudding with Banana & Miso Caramel Sauce! A pudding made from leftovers in less than 15 minutes! What is not to love about that! A great way to use leftover rice in a seriously affordable and versatile way.
Tomato & Lentil Soup (Surplus Food Style)
A tomato soup recipe like no other. This was a creation from a community project using entirely surplus ingredients so maybe doesn’t follow all the usual rules! It’s comforting and unctuous with red lentils. It went down a storm with the young people we served it for.
Orange Upside Down Carrot Cake - Gluten Free/Lactose Free
A wonderfully simple orange upside down carrot cake! Forging the worlds of orange upside down cakes and carrot cakes together! This was made gluten free and lactose free and you would have been none the wiser for it! A cake you have to try!
Fermented Tomato or Pickle Juice Dirty Martini
Dirty Martini’s are the way forward. This recipe is one of the very best! I like to make them ‘bone dry’ with no vermouth. I love to use fermented tomatoes, celery or cucumber to give them some proper salty va-va-voom!
Roast Beef, Late Summer Salad & Buttermilk Dressing - As Served At The Slow Food Feast, Ludlow Food Festival 2025
Beautful pasture raised, organic roast beef, a late summer salad made up from locally grown over ripe tomatoes, fennel, runner beans and the most vibrant, rich buttermilk dressing. This is a recipe straight from my heart! Served at room temperature it’s got a beautiful comfort to it and doesn’t compromise on flavour one bit.
Spanish Style Pork Stew - As Served At The Slow Food Feast, Ludlow Food Festival 2025
This Spanish style pork stew is rustic, comforting and utterly delicious. It packs a real punch of flavour without overbearing. There’s a lovely light balance to it. I served it at Ludlow Food Festival as part of the Slow Food Feast to celebrate fantastic local produce and raise money for surplus charities.
Potato, Caramelised Onion & Cheese Galette
A proper rustic dish with all the feels that its come straight out of a country kitchen! Potato, Caramelised Onion and Cheese Galette!
Potato & Caramelised Onion Latke
Latke is a Jewish type of hash brown, somewhere between a hash brown and a potato pancake or fritter! I use some caramelised onions to add some sweetness! These make the most amazing breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack! So versatile!
Potato & Egg Coconut Curry
Aromatic and not too hot, creamy and rich with a bit of freshness, this potato and egg curry is a total winner and costs very little to make!
‘Chippy’ Chips Potato Tortilla & The Ultimate Chip Butty!
Leftover chips, turned into a potato tortilla, turned into the ultimate chip butty! Absolutely magic!
Green Tomato Salsa Verde
A hot, fiery green tomato salsa verde to spice up just about everything and anything!
Starters
Salad
Dips, Snacks & Sides
Desserts
Cakes & Bakes
Gluten Free
Drinks
A tomato soup recipe like no other. This was a creation from a community project using entirely surplus ingredients so maybe doesn’t follow all the usual rules! It’s comforting and unctuous with red lentils. It went down a storm with the young people we served it for.