River Cottage Baked Mushrooms with Dauphinoise Potatoes

My friends and family know me well and I often get food related presents for birthdays and Christmases and I don't mind a bit. I will quite happily take a recipe book to bed for some night time reading! One of my presents from Mr VST was the new River Cottage Veg Everyday recipe book. 

It is packed full of veggie recipes, everything from mezze to mains although some of the 'recipes' are really just ideas. I'm not sure that you can call putting a few large mushrooms in the oven with garlic and butter a recipe exactly. I love that it is bright and colourful with pictures of most of the recipes, it is always nice to know what you food is supposed to look like. 

Anyway, Monday evening I decided to test out a couple of the recipes, one was the baked field mushrooms which I have described above and the other was the potato dauphinoise.

Mr VST and I made these together and used Oatly oat 'cream' rather than dairy as I had found some in the new Waitrose last Friday.

Both recipes were very tasty indeed and the recipes worked well although the mushrooms needed a bit longer than suggested. 

More from the River Cottage book later.....

Linguine with Tomato, Peas and Mushrooms

After a week of indulgence on the food front it was time to get back to some healthy eating so on Monday we had this easy and tasty linguine with tomato, peas and mushrooms. 

Linguine with Mushrooms, Peas and Tomatoes

Monday evening saw a return of this quick and easy pasta recipe. The peas give it a lovely sweet taste and it's not too bad on the calorie count either.

Linguine with Mushrooms, Tomato and Peas

Monday evening saw a repeat of this quick, easy pasta dish. I think it's going to become a favourite. 

Linguine with Peas, Mushrooms and Tomatoes

I can't believe I'm over a week behind on my blog, what on earth has happened this week? I don't know. Anyway, last Saturday evening I wasn't quite sure what we were going to have for dinner. It was still officially dairy free week although we had spectacularly blown it with some ice creams earlier in the afternoon. I remembered that I had seen this recipe for linguine with peas, mushrooms and tomatoes earlier in the week and I had all the ingredients AND it was quick, easy and healthy - whoop!

As I recall it was a very easy recipe to make, I didn't have the allspice but it was still tasty without. 

Thanks Emily Levenson for an easy, dairy free, Saturday evening supper.

Stuffed Squash

More donations from my colleague's garden for dinner today. I was given two squash. I am yet to identify them but they were light green on the outside and creamy white inside, they were like a marrow or courgette. 

I fried off some shallots, garlic, celery and mushrooms and mixed this in with some basmati rice and feta cheese. The results were surprisingly tasty.

Veggie stew and dumplings

A lovely Sunday night supper using all the veg in the fridge. Quick, easy and tasty too with plenty left over for lunch.

Aubergine, mushroom and green lentil curry

I had a curry planned for Wednesday night's supper anyway and had planned the usual mix of veggies but when I came to make it I realised that I had done nothing with the bonus bag of cheap mushrooms I had bought last week and they weren't looking great. I also had managed to buy two aubergines and had no specific auberginey plans meal wise and I had mistakenly opened a can of green lentils instead of chickpeas for my chickpea stirfry. I made my curry in the usual way with some rogan josh curry paste and a can of coconut milk. It was good, a few more calories per portion than the usual but mush bulkier and more filling.