Has anybody discovered a good vegetable box receipe book or using up scraps book????

[MilaMae]

Am currently using a mixture of Hugh Fernley Eat It All, Nigel Slater year and riverford recipe bank so loads of bits of paper recipe books etc on a Tuesday night. 1 brilliant veg box book would be a godsend. Riverford said they were going to do one but don't think it has materialised yet-must send a nagging e-mail.

Also I'm wasting too much food and read in a Sunday paper about a using up scraps compaigh fronted by Thomasina Miers, think there may be a book involved not sure. Any book that does the same would be great.

Got to get myself organised, felt so crap yesterday gave up and took the kids round to mums for smoked haddock pie-yum!!!! However last weeks chard is still lying at the bottom of the fridge looking at me accusingly everytime I open it.

Do have 2 Nigella orange cakes on the go though this am to use up my orange glut, there is a riot going on upstairs but
hey I'm clearing the orange mountain so who cares

no i don't, but would love to have one too. i find it easiest just to search the recipes on the riverford website when i have a rogue ingredient to use up. i also make veg stock when i get round to it if there's more than a couple of things looking shrivelledy at the bottom of the fridge.

I like the stock idea,wish my lot liked soup more as I'd just blitz the shrivelldy bits and add a bit of cream, I do that now and again.

There must be a book somewhere, I'm a bit loath to shell out for an unrecommended one as I got one a while back and it wasn't that good.

There was a book called It's Raining Plums but no idea if it was any good. Riverford used to sell one(not their own) but can't remember the name, I'll post if I come up with anything.

have you got nigel's cook's year one or whatever it's called? that's all about eating seasonally so might help. (is sat on my shelf but haven't got round to reading it properly yet)

kitchen diaries

dear old delia has a recipe search on her site too if that helps.

heh no matches for chard though...

Yes use the kitchen diaries, I love his recipes they always without fail taste lovely. In fact doing the ricotta and orange pancakes tonight, got to shift those pesky oranges

I use chard in spinach recipes.

Abel & Cole also have a facility on their website whereby you click on the name of a particular veggie and it comes up with some recipes. It might add to the Riverford recipes you've already found? I use that when some strange veg shows up in the box...

They also do a cookbook but I'm too cheap to buy it so don't know if it's any good.

Just found this website referenced on the Riverford site:

vegbox-recipes.co.uk

My veggie box company have a book out and I have one on order to arrive in next weeks box. It was only £3.00 so hope it is ok. They also have recipes on their website. I have my veggies from a company called Woodlands in Lincs.

vegbox-recipes.co.uk/

Beat me to it MrsW!