Winter 2026 recipe round up
Winter Recipe #1
Each week in our January-February shares I will share a recipe idea to make the most of your winter veg. There are some great recipe resources from other CSA farms out there eg Boldy Grown Farm or the recipe page on My CSA Share Diary.
Golden beetroot side salad. Wash and scrub beetroots, cut away tops and bottoms with roots on, peel skin. Coarsely grate into a bowl. Dress with cider vinegar, salt, pepper and rapeseed oil. If you have any sunflower or pumpkin seeds, toasted dry in a frying pan and sprinkled in top would be tasty. Nice bit of zingy, fresh stuff to have with some warming winter food. Good next day n all.
Winter recipe #2
Delicata chips with garlic and herb mayo
Rinse outside of Delicata and towel dry. Cut Delicata into long strips and remove seeds. Lay out Delicata chips and coat with oil to roast in oven until soft in the middle and crispy on outside. Mix up some mayonnaise with crushed garlic and chopped herbs for dipping. By CSA member Cesca.
Winter Recipe #3
Kale salad
Strip the thick midribs from the thinner kale leaves and use for cooking/compost. Chop the leaves into ribbons/finer pieces and massage into a dressing eg honey, mustard, rapeseed oil, vinegar to marinade for a bit. Whatever else you've got will be good with this as a base but I would add a chopped up apple, some shredded raddichio leaves, a little raw red onion and maybe some whole cooked lentils if I was making into a one bowl meal.
This pie from Hodmedod's recipes looks like an interesting recipe to try for cabbage- Zesty greens pie .
Winter Recipe #4
Quick pickled red onions
Select a jar recently emptied and clean it well. Fill half of it with vinegar, top it up with water. Put this in a pan and add another splash of water and a spoonful of sugar, pinch of salt, heating it up until boiling. Skin a red onion and chop up, packing down in your jar til its full. Pour over the hot water/vinegar mixture into the jar. Ready to eat when cooled down, keep in fridge till its gone! I like to top any generic winter bowl of food I have made meself that needs a bit of a pick up.
Winter Recipe #5
Purple sprouting broccoli- "PSB" as called by the cool kids (must be all of us).
Now this isn't summat I've tried or have the wherewithall to attempt the washing up aftermath, but I bet it would be tasty- Tempura fried Purple sprouting broccoli! Imagine the crispy batter and tender broccoli shoots hiding in there, yum!
For those on Instagram, I have seen alot of incredibly nice looking bowls of winter food on Isabella's page. Some interesting combos of seasonal veg and pulses and grains that look very nourishing and tasty. I had a bowl of Hodmedods Pink Flamingo peas topped with a load of roasted veg recently and felt like I was channeling this cooking style, although in a more slapdash impatient farmer fashion.
Winter Recipe #6
Couple of ideas this week, on the theme of using veg in a way you woudn't neccesarily think of first
Have you tried leek salad?
Or Parsnip cake?
What about squash brownies?
