Saturday, January 2, 2016

The Cottage Cooking Club - January Recipes


My dear fellow members of The Cottage Cooking Club:

Now we are at the beginning of January and therefore into our twenty-first month of preparing recipes from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall´s “River Cottage Everyday Veg”. This month we will be preparing recipes with winter produce.

PLEASE feel free to substitute or add local vegetables to the recipes as it is always best to cook with what you can find at your local farmers´markets and greengrocers.




From the chapter of Comfort Food & Feasts:
1. Winter kale and potato curry (page 24)

 AND

2. Squash stuffed with leeks (page 40)

From the chapter of Hefty Soups:
3. Curried red lentil soup (page 166)

From the chapter of Bready Things:
4. Squash and walnut toastie (page 204)

From the chapter of Store-Cupboard Suppers:
5. Moroccan spiced couscous (page 231)

AND

6. Chickpeas with cumin and spinach (page 246)

From the chapter of Mezze & Tapas:
7. Flat onion bhajis (page 318)

From the chapter of Roast, Grill & Barbecue:
8. Seared chicory with blue cheese (page 343)

From the chapter of Side Dishes:
9. Swede with onion and sage (page 382)

From the chapter of Sweet Asides:
10. Tourte de blette (page 398)

POSTING DATES:

Please remember to leave a comment with your personal choice(s) by January 7th at the end of this post.

Please remember to leave a comment with the link to your personal blog post on the LYL post by January 28th and/or our facebook page!

Please note that after your January posts, we will have about thirty (30) recipes left, leaving 3 more posts after this one, unless we do another make-up post.

MOTTO:

Our motto for the month of January is: start the new year off with incorporating even more veggies into your cooking!



Thank you! Merci beaucoup! Vielen Dank!

28 comments:

  1. I will do my best to tackle all or most of these recipes - I would like to get started with the Tourte de blette and take it from there - it sounds quite interesting!

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  2. My choices for the month:

    Chickpeas with cumin and spinach (page 246)
    Swede (rutabaga) with onion and sage (page 382)

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    1. Zosia, enjoy those two dishes then.
      Does your family still like the dishes from Hugh´s book?
      Andrea

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    2. Andrea, I just saw your question. Absolutely! My family is still enjoying (most of) Hugh's recipes (the rutabaga/swede dish was a surprise hit) but the cook is very short on time this month, so they'll have to miss out on a few I think they'd like!

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    3. Zosia, I was just asking because I am in the planning phase of our next cooking adventure starting on May 1 - more details to come a.s.a.p.
      Andrea

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  3. At this point in time... I will be skipping #40, 166, 343, 382 and 398; but I will replace them with other recipes from earlier on before I join CCC. This is because hubby's blood test results came back (sugar reading with fasting is 6.9, and happy to add mine is 4.9!) and he is staying away from starches... scratching my head now.

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    1. Emily, thank you very much for letting us know! All the very best to you and your husband - health concerns always come first, of course! Thankfully, there are many more recipes in Hugh´s book to chose from.
      ANdrea

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  4. Happy New Year's everyone, here are my choices for the month of January:

    Winter kale and potato curry page 24)
    Curried red lentil soup (page 166)
    Tourte de blette (page 398)

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    1. Cheri, great selections - really wintry comfort food! Hope you and your husband enjoy those dishes.
      Andrea

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  5. I've been baking a lot of bread, so I'll commit to the squash and walnut toastie.

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    1. Jora, sounds good to me - we all enjoy homebaked bread so much, I do not know why I do not make it more often than I do...
      All the best to you and your family and a fat hug for baby Miriam!
      Andrea

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  6. First, Happy New Year, Everyone. Secondly, Emily, I am sorry that you've got the sugar thing going on with your husband. Very sorry. Thirdly, I did not know what a "swede" was until it was made clear to me that it's a rutabaga. With Andrea, it's always a learning moment. TY, A. I will make Curried & Red Lentil Soup (166); Flat onion bhajis ( 318); and, Moroccan spiced couscous (page 231). I've missed you all the past two months.

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    1. Mary, how nice to "see" you again, Mary! Hope you had a wonderful strat to the new year! Hope you enjoy those dishes from Hugh´s book - sorry about that "swede", as I use the British version of the book, I just use the British name for those veg, as written in the original...it had not really occurred to me to call the "swede" by its American name "rutabaga", sorry, again!
      Andrea

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  7. Missa much, Mary! Flat onion bhajis sounds good, I might as well make the cauliflower too! I bought swede some time ago... but it rotted, forgotten, in the fridge!

    And Hubby was so sure that my sugar level will be higher than his! He started exercising again! (in addition to his taking out the trash every other day!).

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    1. Emily: all the very best for both of you!
      And Mary: delightful to "see" you here again - we all missed your CCC blog posts!
      Andrea

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  8. I will make the Rutabaga with Onion and Sage and the Squash stuffed with leeks. Might try some of the others for lunch as I can because my picky husband doesn't enjoy curry or middle eastern spices, but no promises. Grrrr. Thanks Andrea!

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    1. Betsy, sounds good to me! Enjoy! Hope Howard likes the Rutabaga and the Spuash...
      Andrea

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  9. Happy New Year, Andrea, and all the Cottage Cooks!

    I'm going to make at least two of the following:

    - Winter kale and potato curry
    - Curried red lentil soup
    - Moroccan spiced couscous
    - Chickpeas with cumin and spinach

    Thanks so much, Andrea!

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    1. Teresa, sounds delicious to me! Lots of wintry spices and lots of soulfood during the month of January!
      Hope you and Kevin had a fabulous start to the new year!
      Andrea

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  10. I must be really hungry looking at the list this month as they all look amazing.

    I want to tackle
    -Squash stuffed with leeks
    -Rutabaga (also didn't know it was called swede)
    -Tourte de blettes

    I might make more, but we will see. Happy January, everyone!

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    1. Katie, and a very Happy January to you and your family!
      That "swede" v. "rutabaga" vocabulary issue...sorry about that but I am using the UK edition of Hugh´s book and I adore those British names for those veg.
      Thanks for your selections!
      Andrea

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  11. Hello Andrea and fellow CCC friends. The line-up looks hearty and delicious in January. I know I shall prepare the winter kale and potato curry and also either the Moroccan cous cous or red lentil soup. I shall see from there. Happy Cooking!

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    1. Thank you very much, dear Peggy!
      And happy January cooking to you!
      Andrea

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  12. Hi Andrea!

    A little late, but I am planning on:
    Squash stuffed with leeks (page 40)
    Curried red lentil soup (page 166)

    I would LOVE to make the toastie! We'll see.

    Happy New Year! I'm hoping to get back in the groove now that I'm pretty much moved, so just have to find recipes that my mom likes! She chose the filled squash! They all look delicious as usual!

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    1. Dear Candy, hope all is well with your mum!!!
      What a very busy and challenging time for you!
      I did make the Red lentil soup today as well as the Squash toastie (used butternut) and we absolutely loved, loved both of them.
      I will see whether I can get some more squash this week and will also make the stuffed squash - how wonderful that your mother chose this dish.
      Wishing nothing but the best for the both of you!
      Andrea

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  13. Your photographing style is so charming, Andrea. I love how you incorporate Nature into your pics. Lovely flowers and natural sunlight.

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    1. Colette, you have no idea how much that nice compliment on my photography means to me!!! Those pictures are part of who I am....and I am always a bit sad when they do not really get noticed...
      Many thanks for all your kind words, dear friend!
      Andrea

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  14. I'll be back tonight with my choices. Thanks, Andrea

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