Salads & sides
Peach and tomato panzanella for the freezer
A practical freezer base of roasted tomatoes and crisp bread, finished later with fresh peaches, herbs and lemon.
Batch cook
8 pages tagged batch cook.
Buying guides
Tinned or dried chickpeas: which should you buy?
Dried are about a quarter of the price and hold their shape better. Tinned take four minutes. The honest answer is that you want both.
Dinner ideas
5 dinners for too many courgettes
A pile of courgettes needs different textures, not five versions of the same saute. These dinners use roasting, grating, blending, ribbons and stewing.
Soups & stews
Charred red pepper and chickpea stew
The peppers go under the grill until they are properly black in patches. That ten minutes is the whole flavour of the dish.
Weeknight dinners
Gochujang chicken with cabbage for the freezer
Cook the cabbage until silky and the sauce until thick, then add fresh toppings after reheating for a freezer meal with balance.
Soups & stews
Spiced chickpea soup with lemon
Blending all of it gives you baby food. Blending none of it gives you thin broth with things in it. Half is the answer.
Salads & sides
Smashed cucumber and peanut salad for the freezer
Cucumber can survive the freezer if you drain it hard and treat it as a thawed pickle, not a fresh salad.
Weeknight dinners
Coconut chickpea curry with greens for the freezer
Cook the coconut chickpea base now, freeze it in portions, and add fresh greens and lime after reheating so the curry still tastes alive.