This was a delicious hit at the Halloween hunt made with fresh ingredients and spices - Serve with warm bread - Works well with other vegetables too!

Halloween is over, you have carved the pumpkin and …please don’t throw it away, make delicious food with your pumpkin! 

Pumpkin is packed with Vitamin A which is great for your skin and eyes! Shiny!

Seeds full of important minerals, including Magnesium that keeps you …calm, zen, oh yeah!

According to Zero Waste Scotland, 1.8 million pumpkins are carved in Scotland and yet….1 million of them are thrown away, just like that, it is food waste and in times like this, we should prevent wasting food and enjoy food! If you have never tried pumpkin, well, here is your chance, try making this burger recipe! 

Halloween is a great time for children, they can get dressed up and have fun with friends. It is also a great time for home baking. My son is 3 and he was able to mould the witches fingers, so this is really an accessible recipe for children of almost all ages.

This recipe uses no artificial colouring.

Halloween Time? Carve that pumpkin and decorate the house so children have so much fun! 

Well, don’t throw the flesh of the pumpkin, you can make soup with it, so delicious! The skin and seeds can be eaten too...

The Tarte Tatin was name after the hotel Tatin in France where it originally came from. Known for the Apple Tarte Tatin, it has been recreated many ways and one of them was using vegetables instead...

Fruit Gazpacho

By Vivian Maeda

In summer times, you need to think of ways to cool yourself, and fruit gazpacho is a yummy thing to try and it does not take long to prepare it.

Spinach is a great one to plant in September / October and harvest them through winter. Spinach is so good for us, packed with iron to give us energy as we need iron to spread oxygen in our body. Vitamin A makes spinach good for our skin and Vitamin K makes it good for our bones. Spinach is filled with lutein which is supportive of brain function. 

This little black beauty is coming to the end of the season, but I hope you enjoyed it with family and relatives! Great fun picking them and then eating them of course, so juicy and full of vitamin C and amazing antioxidants! 

If you have never used the carrot or radish greens, think again, they are very nutritious and can be added to soups, stews or turned into a delicious homemade pesto!

Originally from Sicily, arancini are delicious rice balls typically filled with peas, cheese or ham and deep fried. They normally use arborio rice, however my version is baked which is healthier and I used leftover basmati rice (because we just had a curry at home).

Many of us are growing potatoes in the back garden, whether on the ground, planters or in bags, so here is an idea of what you could do with little helpers! This mini potato pizza is easy to make, it is very tasty, and the children will love it!

Risotto scares some people, but it is actually really simple to make and the advantage is that is so versatile that although I am writing this recipe for Nettle or Spinach, feel free to replace it with whatever you are growing in your garden.

During the lockdown, many people struggled to get the essentials including bread and ingredients for making bread such as yeast.

Well, here is what you could do, this is for an avid home baker...

So, you cooked brussels sprouts for Christmas and …not everyone went for it…please don’t throw the leftovers, here is an idea which might give them a second chance. Great little dish for Boxing Day.

...with Mushrooms, Chestnuts and Broccoli

Originally from Belgium these little mini cabbages have been dividing the nation during the festive period. The sprouts deserve to be on the spotlight for their nutritious values.

The potato plants are growing strong in our planters! Here is something you could do with them: 

Delicious Hasselback Potatoes

This is a great, easy to make recipe to preserve nasturtium pods and eat them! 

Why? Great for hayfever!

You can eat them raw, in salads or cooked!

Try out this Hosta dish with Scottish Salmon!

Delicious patties with chopped kale

, diced red pepper and a carrot. Try picking and making this recipe today!

There are lots of things we can make with chive flowers, ....how about chive flower vinegar? Or Chive blossom vinegar. 

We have lots of healthy stuff growing in our planters...enough for a Winchburgh Summer Salad! 

Take your pick and make your own...

Family meal for four!

Pick some Winchburgh parsley, onion, tomato and get cracking with a few eggs.

Try this for tea...