Year long cookery challenge

Back at the end of February last year I joined Lucent Imaginery  and others in a year long challenge to cook my way through a cookery book.  The book I chose was "River Cottage Veg every day", by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, see opening post here.

Tahini dressed courgette and green bean salad

So looking back at the year how did I do?  Well, unlike Lucent I didn't manage to cook every recipe in the book! I did however manage to attempt about 50 of the 200 recipes. This book has been so well used, compared with the majority of cookery books that are sitting on my kitchen shelf!  Have you ever thought how many recipes there are contained in books in your home? How many have you tried?

Pizza using magic bread dough

I have enjoyed taking part in the challenge and now the majority of our main meals are vegetable based compared with a year ago. Many of the recipes in the book have become our regular favourites. I realised as I wrote this post that I wasn't very good at photographing the dishes! We were too busy enjoying them!

Squash  and puy lentil and rocket salad

This link will take you to the River Cottage site which has few recipes from the book including my mushroom-risoniotto and squash stuffed with leeks. I will still be carrying on trying out new dishes from the book!

 Sarah x