FoodSavvy Recipes
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Feeling’ Fly Flapjacks
These flapjacks are the perfect waste busting, energy giving - sweet thing. They are flexible enough to include a range of ingredients depending on your tastes and what you have available. A delicious treat for a lunch box, long walk and picnic.
Sticky Lemon and Rosemary Polenta Cake
No flour? Or just keen to taste a fresh citrusy cake? Polenta and ground almonds make for a moist and delicate crumb, as well as making it a gluten-free cake. This lemon and rosemary cake uses the whole lemon (juice and zest) to make a zingy cake with a flavour combo that will leave you saying, ‘one more slice’.
Vegan Banana Bread
A delicious egg free banana bread recipe. This is a great way to use up those brown squidgy bananas and create a tasty treat for the family.
Hungarian Mushroom Soup
This recipe is a great way to use up spare milk and of course includes delicious mushrooms.
Banana Ice Cream
Never bin your spotted bananas again with this magic trick for turning frozen bananas into a healthy alternative to ice-cream.
Warm New Potato, Purple Sprouting Broccoli and Miso Salad with Pickled Shallots
A ridiculously tasty salad, where the sweetness of new season potatoes plays against the saltiness of miso, the acidity of pickled shallots and the crispness of roasted purple sprouting.
Locally produced seasonal food is tasty and healthy as nutrients and flavours have fully developed. Eating local foods in season offers an environmental bonus. The produce will have travelled less miles, it is less likely to be found in plastic packaging and will have needed fewer pesticides and inorganic fertilisers to grow.
Pea and Mint Soup
Simplicity and flavour marry up in this soup. Peas and garden mint are a match made in heaven. With just a few ingredients this dish is a great option for when it is tricky to get to the shops.
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