Using up pickle juice
From Kim
When all the pickles are gone from the pickle jar, save the juice for use as a marinade for beef or fish. Or add the pickle juice and garlic to a tomato & white wine reduction sauce for a delicious and unique pasta sauce.
Making the most of your pumpkins at Halloween
from Gina Jolliffe in Devon
All of us know that pumpkin is a good food and it's heartbreaking to know that many will be carved out and the flesh discarded purely to make Halloween lanterns. The carving pumpkins may not be the best tasting vegetable/fruit but the flesh can be used, not just chucked. Check out our recipes for pumpkin lasagne, soup, and more
Soup for two
from Freyda
In a two-person household, veg can often go to waste - you might just need one stick of celery for a recipe, and have the rest of the bunch slowly rot in your fridge. Monday night is leftover veg night in our house - one of the easiest ways to get rid of it is roughly chop it all up, sizzle in a little bit of oil for 5 minutes, add some stock, leave to simmer for 20 minutes and then blitz into a thick, chunky soup.