At Cuddly Carrot, we are colour addicts. We live in bright warm colourful houses and wear multi coloured clothes and our food is no different! Food without colour is just not worth eating, so we try and pack in as much colour and variety into our dishes as possible. This noodle salad is packed with bright hues of orange and red and purple as well as a brilliant combination of tastes to make you forget it’s grey and dull outside! Keep this sunshine inside with this great lunch dish. …
peppers
Tapas Time! Roast Pepper Salad
You can use any type of pepper for this dish, but the long skinny, even slightly spicy, ones work really well. If your peppers have very tough skins you could remove them after roasting by putting them in a plastic bag and waiting till they’ve cooled. Then remove the skins – they should come off fairly easily. With fresh, seasonal peppers, this shouldn’t really be necessary. Use good quality olives – it really makes a difference to this dish!…
Pizza!
Pizza, is usually thought of as junk food these days but if you think back in time to when pizza was first made, it was actually pretty healthy. A slab of bread with lots of tasty vegetables on top and a wee bit of cheese – less of the mountains of mozzarella and greasy slick of oil across a thick stodgy base! We’ve gone back to basics here for a gluten free pizza that really does work. It’s very quick to make with rising time not really required. Perfect for a summer picnic!…
Stuffed Spiced Baby Peppers
A satisfying tapas dish or a main dish in its own right, these peppers are spicy and simple to make. If you can’t find small peppers, you can definitely do this with larger ones – bell or long ones – you might just need to cook them for a bit longer!…
Wild Garlic Frittata
This is basically a glorified omelette, but probably even easier to make than omelette! You can’t really go wrong if you use a non-stick frying pan, you don’t turn it over or anything weird like that and it’s a great warming Spring time dinner. The wild garlic is kept as fresh as possible and adds a subtle flavour, matched really well by the acidity of the capers. …
Cashew Pepper & Spinach Tart
This is an easy tart to make – we promise you won’t get a soggy bottom! It’s perfect for a mid week dinner or a more special lunch. You could use different veg on top or add a sprinkling of feta – it’s worth a go!…