For many people, a creamed spinach dish is often pivotal in getting them to give spinach another chance, after a childhood of being served boiled spinach out of a can.
Vegetable Recipes
Curried Cauliflower
A really tasty way to enjoy cauliflower, and it’s not that much work. If you’re not in the habit of keeping all the spices required, you can just use a mild curry powder instead in roughly the same quantities.
Curried Chickpeas Recipe
A great Indian side dish.
Deep Fried Corn on the Cob
If your eyes popped at the thought of this, imagine your friends. This dish is served at some bbq places and state fairs in the American south.
Easy Baked Rosemary Onions
Some baked onion recipes seem to think you have an army of sous-chefs to back you. This recipe will taste just as impressive.
Fried Cauliflower
You can serve this hot, or at room temperature, making it an hour in advance.
Frumenty Recipe
This is a medieval English recipe. The plain frumenty can be used as a breakfast dish.
Funeral Beans Recipe
A classic North American 1950s dish to make and take to feed a crowd at gatherings. It was dubbed Funeral Beans because it was a stand-by crowd-pleaser for gatherings after funerals.
Glazed Parsnips and Turnips
These roasted, caramelized root vegetables taste fantastic.
Green Beans in Blue Cheese Sauce
For green beans, you can use whatever you call green beans: Runner Beans, Wax Beans, French Beans, Green Beans, etc.
Greens with Chestnuts and Bacon Recipe
You can use any kind of greens you like: mustard, beet, chard, etc. Good as a side to meat or pork.
Italian Pickled Vegetables Recipe
All the work here is up-front, chopping the veg.
Kilt Lettuce Recipe
A recipe from the American south.
Leek & Potato Mash Recipe
Really tasty mash, worth the little bit extra effort.
Lima Beans in Tomato Sauce
This is a Greek recipe. They will use the large lima beans called “gigantes.”
Mashed Peas
A very tasty way to present peas.
Molasses Baked Beans
A slow cooker recipe for very delicious, tasty, deep-brown baked beans with a thick hearty sauce. The recipe really only requires about 20 minutes of attention from you at various intervals.
Mrs Tiddlewinks Cheese and Tomato Bread Pudding
This is a savoury cheese and tomato bread pudding from the Beatrix Potter cookbook. The custardy texture of the bread, with the melted cheese, and tomatoes and basil, makes this a very morish, comfort-food dish that people are sure to reach for seconds of, yet it costs very little to make
North African Cauliflower
Exotic and rich-tasting cauliflower side dish.
Parsnip Cakes
Lovely with gravy on them.
Parsnip Mash
You can make this a few hours ahead, and then reheat using a bit of milk or butter.
Pease Pudding Recipe
Goes well with ham. In America, this is more likely to be referred to as pease porridge.
Peppers stuffed with Mozzarella
Most stuffed pepper recipes take hours just to make the filling; these you can have in the oven in under 15 minutes.
Pesto and Mozzarella Stuffed Baked Tomatoes
This is a fantastic tasting vegetable side dish. You could also serve it as a starter on its own.