Tomato, Borlotti Bean and Garlic Soup

Tomato, Borlotti Bean and Garlic Soup

Tomato soup is one of those dishes you can’t have as a meal on its own. By the time you get up from the table you have to pee and afterwards you realise it must have been the tomato soup because you’re still damn hungry. To address this problem beans have been added to this recipe. Pulses are notorious for their ability to keep you full for longer and are great for keeping your glycaemic levels stable. My second issue with tomato soup, or tomatoes for that matter, is that it is just so acidic. A little bit of brown sugar does just nicely though. Well, what do you know? I’ve got nothing left to complain about.

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Baked Apples stuffed with Almonds, Honey and Cinnamon

Baked Apples stuffed with Almonds, Honey and Cinnamon

A meal is never complete without a dessert. Never. When the last crumb and dollop of sauce has been scraped from plate my tongue yells out “What’s next?!?”. Craving something sweet I’ll scour the pantry, looking for some bright-coloured wrapped candy. But alas, it is never there.

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Simmered Fresh Tomato Sauce

Simmered Fresh Tomato Sauce

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how easily tomatoes grow here in the UK. For four years in a row we’ve had bumper crops of tomatoes. With Gabriel’s arrival this year our vegetable plot got grossly neglected and our poor tomatoes missed out on the tender loving care they needed. Yet we harvested kilos of them ever week. There was a slight problem though, I didn’t know what to do with them! I needed a solution quick. It would have been an awful shame to let premium quality organic tomatoes go to waste.
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Sweet Potato, Spinach & Mushroom Stew

Sweet Potato, Spinach & Mushroom Stew

Yams, cassava, rice, peanuts, spinach, plantains and peppers are just a few ingredients that are regularly used in the rich West African cuisine. What surprised me most was the peanut butter in this dish. Curry and peanut butter sure sounds like a strange combination, but in reality it works beautifully. The peanut butter adds depth and nuttiness to the vegetables, but also tempers the cayenne pepper and curry. Who needs meat if a meal can be so filling?
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Oxtail Stew with Beans & Red Wine

Learn how to cook oxtail and everything else there is to know about this fabulous cut of beef.

Oxtail Stew with Beans & Red Wine

This is the very first recipe that was ever posted on Greedy Gourmet. Miserable, bored and stuck in a rut with the food I was eating I missed home dearly and asked my mother for the family oxtail recipe. South African comfort food I call it, especially on those subzero evenings in winter. Yes, it does get cold there…

My favourite bones are the smallest ones. Dead easy to get the meat off, not as fatty and the meat itself is very tender. Try it and see for yourself!

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