Don’t forget to start ordering your veg box from Sutton Community Farm!

http://www.suttoncommunityfarm.org.uk/veg-box

In partnership with Sutton Community Farm we are therefore launching a truly local veg box: a weekly bag of fresh, delicious vegetables, direct from the farm delivered, by the Veg Van, to your door. And Veg Van customers get £1 off their first order; http://www.suttoncommunityfarm.org.uk/veg-box/ contact Anna to order your box or call: 020 8404 7085.

The Veg Box will replace the Veg Van market – our last market will be next Thursday 29th September.

Thank you so much for all your support – we’ve loved getting to know you and hope you can be part of this new exciting Veg Van adventure!

Do come and get involved at the farm, we have volunteer days every Tues, Weds and Saturday and lots of free events for all the family.

1. Grease a square cake tin by brushing it lightly with neutrally-flavoured oil. Line it with baking parchment, then oil lightly again. Preheat the oven to 180°C/Gas 4.

2. Peel and trim the parsnips, then coarsely grate enough to give 250g of grated vegetable. Set aside.

3. In a large mixing bowl, whisk the eggs together, then add the oil, sugar, lemon zest, vanilla extract and grated parsnips. Stir to combine and set aside.

4. Sift the self-raising flour, cinnamon and salt into a second large mixing bowl. Make a well in the centre, then pour in the parsnip mixture. Add the chopped walnut pieces and stir just enough to combine the ingredients and make a stiff batter.

5. Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin, spreading it out fairly evenly into the corners. Bake for 1 hour – 1 hour 20 minutes or until the cake is well risen, the top is firm and brown, and a metal skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.

6. Remove the cake from the oven and allow it to cool for 5-10 minutes in the tin before lifting it out to a wire rack to cool completely. Dredge with icing sugar before serving.

Method

1. Beat the eggs in a bowl and season with salt and pepper to taste.
2. Heat the oil in a frying pan. Add the garlic and fry over low heat for 1 minute, then add the courgettes and cauliflower and turn in the oil a couple of minutes.
3. Pour the eggs into the pan and stir briefly, then cook over the medium heat until set underneath and around the edges.
4. Scatter over the grated cheese and continue to cook over a very low heat until the egg is set and only slightly runny in the middle.
5. Finished off under the grill.
6. Serve warm or cold

for the Cobbler:
80g butter/marg , chilled and cut into cubes
200g self-raising flour
100g golden caster sugar
150ml buttermilk or milk or dairy-free alternative
a handful hazelnuts or cobnuts , roughly chopped

1. Heat the oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Tip the damsons and plums into a 1-litre baking dish and sprinkle over the sugar. Put the dish in the oven while you make the cobbler.
2. To make the cobbler, whizz the butter, flour and sugar and a pinch of salt to fine breadcrumbs in a food processor. Mix in the buttermilk to make very soft, spoonable dough.
3. Take the baking dish out of the oven and spoon blobs of dough over the damsons, sprinkle the cobbler with nuts and bake for 30-35 minutes, or until the damson mixture is bubbling and the cobbler is cooked through – test it with a skewer as you would a cake.
4. Serve with crème fraîche or custard.

1. Shell the broad beans and then boil them until soft
2. If you don’t like the skins (I don’t like them too much) shell the beans and put them in a blender
3. Crush the garlic in a pestle and mortar – or put all the rest of the ingredients in a blender together with the beans
4. Either blend all the ingredients or mash all the ingredients in the mortar until a paste. I adjust olive oil and vinegar – tasting every so often until it’s to my liking.

Hope you enjoy!

Method
Blanch the florets for 1 minute, then drain.
Heat the olive oil in a heavy saucepan then add the onion and a pinch of salt.
Cook on a low heat until soft then add in the ground spices and cook for another couple of minutes.
Add the cauliflower florets and fry a little longer. Add the saffron water, pine nuts and drained raisins.
Cook until cauliflower is soft and you have a thin sauce. Check for seasoning and serve.

200g Basmati rice
650g water
10ml sesame oil
Salt and Pepper
100g mushrooms
40g spring onions
100g broad beans
100g celery
Sutton Community farm lettuce
1tbs sunflower seeds
Olive oil

Heat a large saucepan with the sesame oil over moderate heat, not too hot, as the sesame oil will burn easily.

Add half of the dry basmati rice and seasoning to the sesame oil and toast the rice until golden brown and toasted, stir continuously as the rice will catch and burn easily.

Once the rice is toasted golden brown add the rest of the rice and the water. Bring the rice to the boil, once its boiling, boil for five minutes and then place the lid to cover and turn the heat off. Let the rice rest in the saucepan for 20 minutes to absorb the water.

Hold onto the lid and give the saucepan a good shake to fluff the rice.

While the rice is resting, slice the mushrooms, spring onions and dice the celery.

Heat a non-stick frying pan and sauté the mushrooms and celery in a tablespoon of olive oil until the mushrooms are golden.

Season with sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper.

Blanch the broad beans and pop them out of their light green jackets.

If you are serving the dish warm add the sautéed mushrooms mixture, sliced spring onions and blanched broad beans to the warm fluffy toasted rice, adjust the seasoning and sprinkle the sunflower seeds over the salad and serve. Don’t forget to add the lovely Sutton farm lettuce on the side at the last minute so it stays crisp!

Alternatively if you wish to serve the dish cold let the rice cool completely before you add the rest of the ingredients.Enjoy!

1. Bring the water to the boil for the pasta. It should be ready for you to add the pasta whilst you are preparing the sauce.
2. Cook the broccoli in salty water for 3 minutes and then drain.
3. Lightly fry the chopped garlic in oil and then put the soft cheese into the saucepan and heat gently, stirring until melted.
4. Add the milk and stir well until combined.
5. Add the broccoli and stir to coat evenly.
6. Once the pasta is ready, divide it amongst the plate and spoon the sauce over the top. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and serve.

Preheat oven to 150°C.

1. Arrange tomatoes, cut sides up, in a shallow baking dish just large enough to hold them in 1 layer. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons oil and season with salt and pepper. Scatter garlic around tomatoes, then roast in middle of oven until tomatoes are tender and skins are wrinkled, about 1 hour. Cool, then transfer tomatoes to a plate, reserving garlic and oil in baking dish.
2. While tomatoes are cooling, put bread slices on a baking sheet and brush lightly on both sides with additional oil. Bake in middle of oven until golden, 15 to 18 minutes.
3. Peel roasted garlic cloves and mash to a paste with oil and juices from baking dish. Spread paste on toasts, then top each toast with a tomato half, cut side up.
4. Serve crostini topped with olives.
5. Notes: Tomatoes and garlic paste can be prepared 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring to room temperature before proceeding.  Toasts can be baked 1 day ahead and kept in an airtight container at room temperature. Heat assembled crostini in a 150°C oven before serving if components are made ahead.