One of the most important ways to contain your food costs is to never waste. This week, we bought local produce. Yes, the cheese is imported, but we could just have easily used a local variety, if we hadn’t had to use this kind up.
Here’s a link to the original recipe – although practically every ingredient is changed. For the turnip, we used its larger purple and yellow cousin, the rutabaga. We also swapped out the beans for kidney beans we had on hand – in our case cooked without salt and a little chili powder. Red cabbage was swapped for green, and pecorino for Manchego. Even the vinegar was subbed with our homemade wine vinegar.
The result? Every bit as delicious. Vegans can easily use soy cheese, and although the recipe suggested this as a side, it’s so good, full of fibre and colour that the two of us split it as a main.
Stay tuned as we find more ways to make our limited supply of local produce look fresh and exciting!