Vegetable and Chickpea Soup with a Herb Pesto

This is a tomato based vegetable soup loaded with spices, a variety of vegetables and topped with a yummy herb pesto. It’s one of those dishes you can make from the leftovers in your fridge and a couple of pantry items so feel free to mix up the ingredients as you see fit.

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Roast Cauliflower Chowder with Haloumi Croutons and a Herb Oil Drizzle

This is a thick and creamy cauliflower soup rather than a smooth and silky one. It feels hearty to eat and is so easy to make. And then you’ve got haloumi croutons… and why have I never done that before? of course that’s bloody delicious.

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Salmon and Mushroom Ramen with a Ponzu Broth

This is my kind of winter comfort food. Noodles and broth to slurp with plenty of vegetables and protein. The salmon is gently cooked in a fragrant broth that’s seasoned with ponzu, so many levels of yum.

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Garam Masala Spiced Sweet Potato and Carrot Soup

It’s soup season people!! I mentioned in my last post that my friends and I have started a soup club, each week 2 of us make soup for the 6 of us and this week it was my turn. This warm, yummy spiced soup was my contribution.

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Pumpkin Dahl with Tomato and Spinach

This autumnal dahl is both comforting and fresh thanks to the coconut and lime flavours through it. It’s mild in terms of heat level and fragrant with the toasted cumin stirred through at the end. It comes together with very little effort so is a perfect midweek meal and the leftovers can be freezed for lunches.

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Vegan Tempeh and Vegetable Ramen

Oh my oh my, another tempeh recipe, if you’d told me two years ago I’d be eating tempeh I would not have believed you. And boy do I get argumentative when I think you’re full of it. it’s not always pleasant for the full of it person… or me when it turns out I was in the wrong. But I’m into tempeh now… well sometimes, when it’s cooked in ways I actually like. And this definitely is one of those ways.

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Vegetarian Khoa Soi Style Noodle Soup

This is reminiscent in flavour of a khoa soi soup but like most things I make is lacking in the authentic elements, the flavour is great though, full of thai spices and turmeric!

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Sesame, Miso and Ginger One Pot Chicken Ramen

Basically ramen. But I cheated, and made it quick and easy, like almost as easy as 2 minute noodles but full of goodness and yummy nourishing things rather than a weird dehydrated sachet of ‘flavour’. But let’s be honest, I might be trash talking that stuff but I crave it sometimes as it was the comfort food of my childhood and then hangover food of my teenage years and very early twenties. Don’t judge me, just admire how far I’ve come;)

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Mussels with a Thai Coconut Curry Broth and Spring Vegetables

    This bowl of goodness is so easy to make and such fun to eat. The juicy mussels add their own flavour to the broth and the sweet spring vegetables balance out all the spice so you have a harmonious zing. Get slurping.

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SALMON SOBA BOWLS WITH MISO GINGER BROTH

 

This is a bowl of goodness, full of flavour, textures, healthy fats and green vegetables. You’ll feel better just smelling it. Can you tell I’m obsessed with salmon at the moment?!

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