Gareth Grundy 

Kitchen apps: Riverford

770 recipes at your fingertips – with a neat touch, writes Gareth Grundy
  
  

Riverford iPhone app
Riverford iPhone app. Photograph: PR

What is it? Riverford are best known for their organic fruit and veg deliveries. Having started in Devon, they now operate across England. This app is just as substantial, offering more than 770 recipes. Free for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

It's not another attempt to make me cut down my meat intake, is it? The "veg machine" function – which works like a pub fruit machine – is an unsubtle attempt to suggest that vegetables are in no way tedious. But it's actually useful if, rather than spinning it at random, you work backwards from what's in your fridge. For example, should you only have fennel, leeks and celery left over, it'll come up with a suggestion (vegetables à la grecque, since you ask).

But what if I really like meat? Don't worry, there's plenty on offer among the massive A-Z of simple recipes that is the app's real strength. Draws on Riverford's cookbooks, but if you start here, you may not need them.

 

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