November Recipes

This is a sweet and sour pickled side dish you would serve with any Indonesian rice table, but I have it with my own nasi goreng (another Dutch/Indonesian dish).

• Serves: 2-20 • Preparation Time: 20-30 minutes • Cooking Time: 30-40 minutes

I have used a blend of wild meats for this stew; venison, rabbit, pigeon, pheasant. Instead of eating farmed meat, eating game (wild meat) once a week is a healthy alternative, both for you and for the planet. Especially if the rest of the week you eat a vegetarian diet or a vegan diet.

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 20 minutes • Cooking Time: > 120

A hearty breakfast ideal for cold winter months, courtesy of Clearspring

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 10 minutes • Cooking Time: 15 minutes

A classic winter dish in the Netherlands. Cheap, easy and nutritious. Serve with smoked sausage or for a vegetarian or vegan option, choose smoked tofu.

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 20 minutes • Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Cooking gluten free doesn't need to be more difficult as this gluten free recipe for apple pie shows.

• Serves: 10 • Preparation Time: 45 minutes • Cooking Time: 60-70 minutes

A fun thing to do, as a homemade Christmas gift or to eat yourself.

• Preparation Time: 10 minutes • Cooking Time: 5 minutes

A deliciously healthy stew with lentils and Taifun smoked tofu. You can make this soup anytime during the winter to keep it seasonal.

• Serves: 3-4 • Preparation Time: 20 minutes • Cooking Time: 40 minutes

Our Italian wwoofer gave us this recipe while staying with us. It's a very healthy breakfast and so easy to make! This recipe requires no cooking! Raw and tasty.

• Serves: 1 • Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Tinned green beans are seasonal as well. French beans are harvested in season and go straight into a tin for you to use later in the year.

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 10-15 minutes • Cooking Time: 15-20 minutes

Parsnips are a true winter vegetable and can be harvested throughout the winter (as long as the ground isn't frozen). Apples store well, so this recipe is very seasonal and cheap! By cooking seasonally you make the best of British vegetables and it is cheaper too.

Pumpkins store very well, so theoretically you can eat pumpkins from October until December, since they have been stored.

• Serves: 3-4 • Preparation Time: 10-20 minutes • Cooking Time: 20-30 minutes

A super simple, healthy vegan soup made with seasonal pumpkin and red lentils.

• Serves: 3-4 • Preparation Time: 10-20 minutes • Cooking Time: 30-40 minutes

Vegan sushi made purple using red cabbage!

• Serves: 8 • Preparation Time: > 60 • Cooking Time: > 60

This is a very easy-to-make seasonal recipe using red cabbage (homemade) piccalilli and healthy pickled herring. Most mayonnaise is dairy free, but if allergic, please check the ingredients!

• Serves: 2 • Preparation Time: 10-15 minutes • Cooking Time: 15-20 minutes

Game (meat shot in the wild) has less impact on the environment than beef, chicken or pork. In contrast, deer are actually preventing trees to grow back in Scotland because they don’t have a natural predator.

• Serves: 2-6 • Preparation Time: 20-30 minutes • Cooking Time: 30-40 minutes

Tasty way to use your (homemade) sauerkraut. Sauerkraut has lots of health benefits, besides that it's also virtually fat free.

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 20 minutes • Cooking Time: 30-40 minutes

Frothy, coffee and nut liquor! What more do you want?!

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 5 minutes • Cooking Time: 5 minutes

Rolled pancakes filled with creamy and 'sheesy' leeks. Great as finger food or as a main meal.

• Serves: 6-8 • Preparation Time: 20-30 minutes • Cooking Time: 15-20 minutes

These tacos are filled with seasonal vegetables, like cabbage and carrots and they are vegan too! Cheap, easy and vegan.

• Serves: 6 • Preparation Time: 10-15 minutes • Cooking Time: 15-25 minutes

Tasty and healthy, nori is a type of seaweed which is rich in micro nutrients and minerals.

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 5 minutes • Cooking Time: 25 minutes

Dairy free, egg free, lactose free and it still tastes of chocolate! This cake is a winner amongst friends and family. Serve with dairy free cream or just on its own.

• Serves: 8 • Preparation Time: 15 minutes • Cooking Time: 50-60 minutes

This vegan lasagne uses vegan ingredients and gluten free lasagne sheets. And to make it even greener, it's made with seasonal ingredients.

• Serves: 4 • Preparation Time: 15 minutes • Cooking Time: 30-45 minutes

A vegetarian pasta dish using seasonal vegetables like kale and onions, flavoured with blue cheese and walnuts. An easy dish for all the family!

• Serves: 2 • Preparation Time: 10-15 minutes • Cooking Time: 15-20 minutes