Our Recipes

  • Ivy’s Pickled Cucumbers

    Ivy’s Pickled Cucumbers

    Makes approx  6 x 300g jars. Ingredients 600g cucumbers, unpeeled 1 brown onion, thinly sliced 1 and ½ tbsp salt 63ml ish hot water 250ml…

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  • Spicy Green Tomato Chutney

    Spicy Green Tomato Chutney

    Ingredients Method

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  • Mushroom, Leek & Potato Soup

    Mushroom, Leek & Potato Soup

    Serves 4 to 6 Ingredients Method Tips We used oyster mushrooms grown at the garden, but any shop-bought chestnut, portobello mushrooms would work. For a…

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  • Carrot, Sweetcorn & Lentil Soup

    Carrot, Sweetcorn & Lentil Soup

    We usually round off our gardening sessions with lunch and in the winter it’s generally a warming soup. This carrot, lentil and sweetcorn soup is…

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  • Veg Frittata

    Veg Frittata

    This quick and easy healthy meal was made from fennel, onions, leeks and cavolo Nero grown in our community garden. Serves 6 Ingredients Method Tips

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  • Stuffed Courgette with Feta and Oaked Salmon

    Stuffed Courgette with Feta and Oaked Salmon

    Not made from pumpkin, but delicious nevertheless! This recipe is from new member Ralph. Ingredients 1 giant courgetteFeta cheeseOaked Salmon1 tin anchoviesGarlic Method Scoop the…

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  • Ray’s Pumpkin Choka

    Ray’s Pumpkin Choka

    As a child we had this as a breakfast dish served with sada roti (sort of a pita bread). We called this Pumpkin Choka or…

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  • Norma’s Pumpkin Pecan Pie

    Norma’s Pumpkin Pecan Pie

    I met Norma at the Incredible Edible Bus Stop pocket park launch in June, where Bandstand Beds donated Squash and Bean plants that are doing…

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  • Fiorella’s beansballs!

    Fiorella’s beansballs!

    Fiorella is an Italian living in London and she prepared this vegetarian version of meatballs for us, using the classic Italian Borlotti bean. We’ve sown…

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  • Emma’s honeyed pumpkin with chickpeas and spinach

    Emma’s honeyed pumpkin with chickpeas and spinach

    Emma is a key volunteer at the Bandstand Beds, especially as she is water rota co-ordinator! She cycles past the beds each morning on her…

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