A (Welsh) Book of Seasonal Vegan Recipes
Learning to cook your own food is empowering, as you no longer have to rely on expensive plastic-wrapped ready-meals and takeaways. Master your favourite cuisines at home. Then every night is restaurant night!
The Seasonal Vegan is a book of simple affordable recipes that make use of local seasonal produce. Each recipe is geared to seasonal crops, with year-round menus. Illustrated with beautiful colour images, these recipes let you enjoy wholesome affordable meals.
Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets (many ingredients are unsafe near animal friends). Bin allium scraps (onion, garlic, leeks, shallots, chives) as acids may harm compost creatures (same with tomato/citrus/rhubarb scraps).
If growing food, read our posts on pet-friendly gardens and wildlife-friendly gardens. Avoid facing indoor plants to outdoor gardens, to help stop birds flying into windows.
What Foods to Eat (and when?)
- Spring – asparagus, spinach, peas, radishes, rocket, kale
- Summer – tomatoes, sweetcorn, strawberries, courgettes, peppers
- Autumn – carrots, apples, pumpkins, parsnips, squash
- Winter – collards, squash, kale
Arguably, the best recipe books are those that use local natural and seasonal produce. Not only better for the planet with less food miles and less packaging, but the ingredients are easy to find, and more affordable.
Each of the 70 recipes in this book (by a Welsh-speaking veggie cook and writer) focuses on fresh local product). The 70 recipes include:
- Pancakes with Blueberry Compote
- Potato Salad with Watercress Pesto
- Summer Berry & Coconut Milk Ice Lollies
Grow, Store and Cook Vegan Food
If you like growing and eating your own food, read The Vegan Cook & Gardener. This book is co-written by a father and daughter (he’s a gardener, she’s a chef).
This is affordable feel-good food, if you don’t want anything too fancy. Find recipes for soups, mains and cakes (carrot or strawberry chocolate).
At once scholarly and entertaining, the book is gloriously illustrated, and the recipes are easy-peasy to follow. Joanna Lumley
Piers Warren and Ella Bee Glendining are experienced vegan cooks. He is a conservationist, permaculture expert and wildlife filmmaker who wrote How to Store Your Garden Produce.
Ella Bee is a passionate advocate for animal welfare, who recently received huge accolades for directing the film Is There Anybody Out There?‘, where she tries to find others with the same rare disability as her.
