Lucy's Friendly Foods79 recipes
Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
Curried parsnip soup
It’s time to get the roots out! The first frost has been and gone and it’s time to indulge in some serious warming food.
Tangy Red Cabbage Slaw
Whenever I buy a beautiful red cabbage I always end up with a good portion hanging around in the fridge looking forlorn and unwanted.
Sun dried Tomato Bagels
I simply love my new Kitchenaid, it has made such a massive difference to my life.
Pasta Primavera with Chive Gremolata
Pasta for the whole family so often reverts to a tomato based affair, and whilst it can have numerous variations and be utterly delicious it can also become a little monotonous – you need som…
Mustardy potato and green bean salad
It’s still Jersey Royal season, and I’m determined to use this wonderful seasonal produce as much as possible, while it’s still at its best.
Caprese Tomato Pasta Salad
We seem to live off salad in the summer – to me there is not much more delightful than an array of stunning salads to dive into on a warm sunny day.
Punchy parsnip soup
It’s all about the roots! Winters equals root vegetables, and as Chritmas approaches the parsnips are filling the supermarket shelves, begging to be used.
Cauliflower cocktail, aka veggie ‘prawn’ cocktail
There’s something about the festive season, that despite a ridiculous over abundance of food, there is compulsion to have a starter as well.
‘Sunday roast’ salad with mint sauce vinaigrette
Sometime you just really fancy a flavour combination, and the other day I really hankered after a flavour I haven’t had for many years – roast potatoes with mint sauce.
Marvellous Mac and ‘cheese’
Pasta can be quite dull when you’re dairy-free – beyond tomato or bolognaise style sauces so many include some form of dairy or egg.
Five Ingredient Vegetarian Caprese ‘meatballs’
Meatballs on spaghetti are a perennially popular dish – children always seem to wolf them down.
Jamaican Jerk Roasted Cauliflower
This dish is inspired by legend and fastest man on Earth, Usain Bolt.
Roasted Parsnip and Garlic Gnocchi
Where do you stand with parsnips? They seem to divide people, but for me they’re an essential part of Christmas and I absolutely love the sweet taste of a roasted crispy parsnip.
Bonfire or Christmas Spice Scones
I’m not one for a milky coffee but I do like the sound of the seasonal varieties that are sold in the big golf shop chains.
Cucumber and Rice Noodle Salad
I don’t know about you, but when we’re all at home (and obviously thanks to Covid-19 that is ALL the time right now) I struggle with lunch ideas the most.
Tomato and Balsamic Taralli Biscuits
I’m always looking for new savoury snack ideas as they can be sadly hard to find if you’re on a restricted diet.
Spicy Tomato and Rice Soup
I don’t know about you but I find lunches the most difficult meal to cater for, especially right now where we’re all at home all the time, we have differing timetables and differing ide…
Pumpkin Spice Muffins
Pumpkin spice is everywhere these days, everyone seems to go crazy for pumpkin spice lattes so I thought I’d better jump on the PSL bandwagon and use pumpkin spice in one of my recipes.
