Crispy butterbeans with spiced rice - Vegan, DF and GF

Butterbeans are amazing when sauteed - the skins go crispy, the insides go fluffy; Yum and yum. These butterbeans are coated in spices and topped with caramelised onions. Served with spiced rice... You can have this all sorted in about three quarters of an hour. 

Herbed bulghur (or buckwheat) pilaf - Vegan, DF and GF

The startling red baubles on top of the pilaf are chickpeas, toasted and then coated in spices (Smoked paprika and cumin). Some onionweed or spring onion tops finely shredded and added to the pilaf and sprinkled on top, red onions in with the bulghur or buckwheat, lemon juice to make the flavours sing. This is very good.

Cinnamon roasted pumpkin with sriarcha yoghurt - can be Vegan, DF and GF

To make this one vegan and df, simply use coconut yoghurt instead of dairy. The pumpkin wedges are tossed with cinnamon and oil then roasted; you make a pesto with some coriander leaf and stalk, oil and garlic; swirl sriarcha through yoghurt (whichever sort). Once the pumpkin is tender, assemble on a plate and top with toasted pumpkin seeds - so pretty!

Kumara and carrot cakes - vegan, DF and GF

These experimental cakes are served with plain yoghurt, but a recipe for sunflower cream will be on the page for this one, to make it vegan and DF. These are pretty simple to make and super tasty - diced kumara is roasted in the oven while you do other stuff: 

saute together the grated carrot, onion and sunflower seeds, add some spices and wait for the onions to melt down a bit. When the kumara is tender, mash it lightly then combine with the onion etc, add chickpea flour and some water then form into patties, toss in white and black sesame seeds and shallow fry. Excellent for lunches, picnics, shared meals, or served with flatbread and salad. So good!

Country chicken one-pot - DF and GF

There are plenty of vegetables hiding in this recipe and it really does all just go in one pot - or large frypan - and sit on the stove for about half an hour! This is very much comfort food (also mid-week winner meal). There are mushrooms, but you can swap those out for something else from the fridge if people in your household are not fans of the fungi.

Crustless quiche - smoked salmon and kale : GF and can be DF

Making this DF is as easy as swapping out parmesan for pecorino. (pecorino is made from sheep milk). The topping on this is a mix of ground almonds, sunflower and pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds - there's a stack of extra protein right there. It uses a  small amount of smoked salmon to deliver big flavour. This recipe takes nearly an hour from start to taking it out of the oven, and then it needs to rest for about 20 minutes to pull itself together for eating. It is worth waiting for.