Our Recipes

  • Spicy Green Tomato Chutney

    Spicy Green Tomato Chutney

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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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  • It’s Chutney time again

    It’s Chutney time again

    The garden is starting to look ready for Autumn, the beans are finished and the squashes which have been romping across the community garden are ready…

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