We’ve put together a couple of our best vegan leek recipes just for you. Our vegan gnocchi and leek bake, and another favorite, a creamy vegan potato leek soup.

Our favourite easy vegan potato side dishes (boiled to baked). The perfect pairing for a picnic, or a delicious dinner party dish. Including salads and jackets.

Make an easy Shepherd’s pie with lentils soaked in rich tomatoes and hearty vegetable stock. Filled with onions, carrots and peas. Topped with crispy potato.

Living in the United Kingdom means that for a very considerable portion of the year, the weather you experience is mostly cold and wet. However, this does provide an unquestionable excuse to eat some hearty comfort foods. A personal favourite of mine is Bangers and Mash. To those of you who are unfamiliar with this pairing of slang culinary words, it can be translated simply as sausages and mashed potatoes.

I enjoy having what we call a picnic meal. One regular dish that will find its way to this summer-style feast is an easy, and very tasty potato salad. If the ingredients list to this recipe doesn’t seem like a lot, you would be right. This is the perfect simple side dish.

Traditionally Haggis contains sheep’s meat, onion, oatmeal, suet and an assortment of seasonings. Neeps is a name given to the Swedish Turnip, and in this case, describes the tasty combination of boiled turnip and carrot coarsely mashed together. And lastly the tatties. More widely known as potatoes, which for this dish, like the neeps will be boiled and then mashed.

Why is a cottage pie named so? In short, because it was an affordable and easy meal for the masses. It was a warm and wholesome dish that was accessible to those who you would find residing in a dwelling such as a cottage. It is made up of hearty, everyday ingredients perfect for a satisfyingly filling dinner meal.