We are collecting recipes for good for you things which can be added to bad for you things.
Beetroot Muffins (with chocolate)
Carrot Cake
Courgette cake (with chocolate)
we have a few variations of but are there any other vegetables or fruits usually eaten as a savory which can be made into a cake or even a biscuit? cakes without chocolate recipes too.
I have a great recipe for pumpkin scones which I'm sure I got from here. At work so don't have it to hand
Often send my son back to his boarding school with this one in his bag: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/recipes/article2181551.ece
He and his friends love it. The only way I'll eat beetroot happily.
and a recipe that Tim posted a while back for courgette bread and so good it's worth reproducing:
INGREDIENTS:
450g/1lb courgettes, coarsely grated
salt
500g/1 1/4lbs/5 cups plain flour
2 sachets fast action yeast
60ml/4 tbsp Parmesan cheese, freshly grated
ground black pepper
30ml/2 tbsp olive oil
lukewarm water, to mix
milk, to glaze
sesame seeds, to garnish
1. Layer the courgettes in a colander and sprinkle them lightly with salt. Leave to drain for 30 minutes, then pat dry.
2. Mix the flour, yeast and Parmesan together and season with black pepper.
3. Stir in the oil and courgettes and add enough lukewarm water to give you a good firm dough.
4. Knead the dough on a lightly floured surface until it is smooth, then return it to the mixing bowl, cover it with oiled cling film and leave it to rise in a warm place.
5. Meanwhile, grease and line a 23cm/9in round sandwich tin. Preheat the oven to 300oC/400oF/Gas 6. When the dough has doubled in size, turn it out of the bowl, punch it down and knead it lightly. Break into eight balls, rolling each one and placing them in the tin as shown. Brush the tops with milk and sprinkle over the sesame seeds.
6. Allow to rise again, then bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool slightly in the tin, then turn out the bread to cool further.
Green tomato pie.
Winter squash mousse
Sweet potato pie
Potato Candy
Parsnip cake
Beetroot cake
Water melon rind pickles
I have a whole book on this sort of thing XX Jeannine
Cornbread
HFW from river cottage made a mash potato cake, a friend at work made one a couple of weeks ago with chocolate and it was nice.
Neil
I have several bread recipies that incorporate vegetables.
I also have a copy of one of my grandmother's WW2 recipies which substitutes mashed potato for the majority of the butter and you can't tell.
CC
Quote from: Jeannine on May 13, 2010, 16:56:43
I have a whole book on this sort of thing XX Jeannine
What's the title Jeannine? And how good are the recipies / would you recommend it?
To add to your list Purpleheather - Pumpkin Cake and pumpkin Pie :)
Theres one called red velevet and chocolate heartache where each recipie is with veg.
My fave is the beetroot brownies
its by Harry Eastwood.
x sunloving
1066, sorry, I should have said I have a whole journal on stuff like this..It is a have a hand written book one of many that I keep special things in..having said that though there is a book ..it is called something like Baking with veggies, think I saw it on Amazon.
By the way red velvet cake is excellent.
XX Jeannine
Turnip jam..not baking but a good old wartime recipe
The book I mentioned earlier is Baking with Vegeatbles by Patsy Morton.
no probs Jeannine :) was just wondering
I have a similar collection of recipies, including my mum's, well I say collection, I think I need to organise and sort it a bit more. Sounds like a job to save up for a winters evening ;)
Thanks for the only recipe Jill. It is duly noted.
It is SWEET recipes which we need WITHOUT chocolate which seems to be added to so many.
I do recall on TV, Gary Rhodes making a green tomato flan by putting brown sugar in a frying pan and adding halved green tomatoes then covering the lot with a short crust pastry and baking it, turning it upside down so that the pastry which was baked on top became the base. Which looked nice but I can not recall if anything else was added to the tomatoes and sugar.
Excuse me,PH, but you didn't ask for us to print them now,and as is usual I presumed you would pick from the choices and if interested ask for the details..you didn't print the three you mentioned. I offered you several, but would not dream of spending a long time writing them out unless it was one you wanted nor would I think anyone would expect us to...XX Jeannine
Quote from: Jeannine on May 16, 2010, 07:30:57
Excuse me,PH, but you didn't ask for us to print them now,and as is usual I presumed you would pick from the choices and if interested ask for the details..you didn't print the three you mentioned. I offered you several, but would not dream of spending a long time writing them out unless it was one you wanted nor would I think anyone would expect us to...XX Jeannine
Which ones have you actually tried which you liked enough to share?
Why? XX Jeannine
Good for you. That is a brilliant idea and this recipe is one that we have used a lot it works well .
Be carefu and make surel that people have tried out recipes before hand. There are a lot of "recipes" around (in fact there are books full of them which do not work at all but the author has a reputation so they get published)
So only replicate tried recipes and not those made up to suit the current fad of healthy foods. Either they smother them with cocoa or/and chocolate to hide the tase of the vegetable or they do not work out at all. This one works. I have tried it.
Not, I may add my favourite. I still love a good Black forest gateaux with extra cream and ice cream. However..............
Parsnip and Ginger Cake
* 2 large parsnips
* 100g of brown sugar
* 3 large egss
* 125g of butter .
* 250g of plain flour
* 2 tsp of baking powder
* 2 tbsp chopped stem ginger
* 2 tsp of cinammon
Grate parsnips
1. Cream together brown sugar , eggs butter .
2. Add plain flour baking powder ,
3. Mix in chopped stem ginger , 2 tsp of cinammon .
4. Mix in the parsnip and bake in two loaf tins at 175deg for 50mins .
5. Remove and leave to cool
6. For the icing mix chopped stem ginger with cream cheese and icing sugar to a custardy consistency. Leave in the fridge.
7. Once the cake is cool smoosh the icing over the cake.
It actually tastes best sliced and spread with a load of butter but don' t tell any one that I said so...
That looks good Zig Zig.
I know what you mean about those books. I have never bought one but have had them free from the lending library and as you say. The recipes do not always work and sometimes if you are a cook you can see that they wont work but sadly a lot of people do not know that so will still try and then put it down to their incompetence rather than a faulty recipe.
A lot of chocolate or cocoa is added to conceal something like beetroot. I loe beetroot but hate the taste when mixed with chocolate...
I think we will have to satisfy ourselves with those and accept that there are just a few ways of concealing vegetables.
Any one who has managed to write a book on it and found a market to sell the recipe book has done well.
I did not expect much from this request but thought that it could be worth trying since we have some brillinat cooks who regularly contribute here. But for some reason I keep getting asked for 'healthy recipes'
Since I do not care one jot about my my own mortality, I will continue to eat exactly what I want when I want.
Thanks a bunch for the links and recipes. That is what I wanted.
I had hoped too that there were cooks who would winden my request by sharing recipes.
It seems that we have a lot of allotment members who are too bisy to enjoy thier plot fully.
this is a recipe I discovered when I moved to Wales,its lush as my Welsh friends would say.
http://www.thefoody.com/pudding/sweetmarrowpie.html (http://www.thefoody.com/pudding/sweetmarrowpie.html)
pookienoodle - that sounds like a lovely recipe, or should I say lush :) And reminds me of a recipe for pumpkin cake that I posted on another thread a while ago - http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,56321.20.html ;D
There are some great ones coming in now and thanks for them. Special diet recipes are always welcome too.
Our recipe list must include at least one item which can be grown on a UK allotment. It is an Allotments Cooking guide.
I am keen that the recipes suggested are tried out, and enjoyed because we know that whilst there are some excellent celebrity cooks who write recipes for their books. It has been "suggested" that some recipes are just written up to fill up space and are effectively a waste of ingredients.
Quite a lot of keen growers are not cooks at all. They take home what they grow and either give the stuff away or it ends up as compost.
One keen grower confessed that his wife wont let him in the kitchen to cook and would rather get convenience foods. He wants to cook. (I do appreciate the mess a keen but inexperienced cook can make so have mixed sympathies).