An Oxo Tower Recipe: Vegan ‘cheese’ cake

Vegan ‘Cheese’ Cake with Mango Coulis A recipe inspired by surplus tofu and mango and created for FoodCycle guests during lockdown.   Ingredients for 4-6 portions: Crumble Base 200g flour 75g vegan butter/baking margarine + 40g to bake 50g sugar 50g brown sugar Mango Coulis 1 mango Juice and rind of one lime 50g brown […]

Pumpkin recipes

In a poll carried out by charity, Hubbub they predict that 24 million pumpkins carved for Halloween will go to waste.  So in true FoodCycle style we asked FoodCycle staff and volunteers to share their favourite recipes to use up any leftovers. Roast butternut squash and red onion with tahini and za’atar from Anne who […]

Danilo Cortellini’s Gnochetti with baked cherry tomatoes and Ricotta

Danilo Cortellini’s Gnochetti with baked cherry tomatoes and Ricotta The name Gnocchetti (small gnocchi) could be quite generic in Italian culinary culture. We have potatoes gnocchi, pumpkin gnocchi, bread gnocchi and pasta dough gnocchi like in our case here.   In Sardinia the locals call them ‘Malloreddus’ and if you move to southern Italy they are likely to be called Cavatelli, […]

Crepes filled with chard, tomatoes & cheese, topped with pecorino

Sarah’s Recipe Sarah is a volunteer at FoodCycle in Durham. This is actually a recreation of what we made at FoodCycle a couple of months ago before the whole apocalypse started. It was the day after pancake day and we had an abundance of rainbow chard and tomatoes very generously donated by Robinsons Greengrocers, so […]

Pickled Red Onions

Esme’s Recipe Here’s Esme from FoodCycle Westgate showing us how to pickle red onions. Ingredients 1 red onion 250ml water 125ml apple cider vinegar 1 tbsp sugar 3/4 tsp salt  

Quick Pickled Cucumbers

Annabell’s Recipe Annabell has provided her recipe from Bath, where she volunteers at her local project. If you have half a cucumber going spare, this is a great way to use one up in a slightly different way. But I’d also actively buy a cucumber for this as it’s such a tasty side. It gives […]

Spicy Vegan…ish Burritos

Daisy and James’ Recipe Daisy and James filmed and edited this lovely video for FoodCycle of their spicy burrito recipe. Daisy has previously volunteered at FoodCycle Manchester. Ingredients Tortillas Chickpeas Broccoli Pepper Onion Sweet potato Chilli powder Cumin Coriander Paprika Olive oil Soy sauce Cheese (vg or dairy, your choice) Sour cream (vg or dairy, […]

Caramelised Apple and Fig Tart with Toffee Sauce

Claire’s Recipe Claire is a FoodCycle Cambridge volunteer. Spring is in the air and looking at the apples and figs sitting in my fruit bowl, I came up with this recipe. It is for me a nice way to celebrate fruits which will come to their peak between now and the end of Summer/early Autumn. […]

One Bowl Mixed Berry Cake

Nikki’s Recipe Nikki is a volunteer at FoodCycle Bristol. I had a similar fruit studded cake whilst on holiday in Italy with my parents many years ago and making this always reminds me of that special time. The recipe is easily adaptable, and you can use any overripe fruit you might have. I like using […]

Apple Cheesecake

Kar Yee’s Recipe Kar Yee is a FoodCycle Bow Road volunteer. In a short on ingredients world, everything for this cheesecake has remained readily available. It serves two generously, four if you’re being restrained, and one if you’re just having that kind of a day. This recipe is hugely adaptable to what you have in […]

Eggs on a bed of Ratatouille

eggs ratatouille

Recipe by Claire Claire has previously volunteered with us at FoodCycle Cambridge   The one thing I really enjoyed when volunteering at FoodCycle is making dishes that you can duplicate easily and prepare quickly. This recipe is all about this, simplicity. It can be done in minutes, prepared ahead of time and kept in the […]

Fruit Layer Cake

Recipe by Kar Yee Kary Yee has previously volunteered with us at FoodCycle Bow Road.   As a nod to Easter and the simnel cake I’ve never got round to making, I’ve come up with this cake. Steeping the fruit gently in some liquid first makes them extra juicy and you have a choice of […]