I love roast vegetables. About once a fortnight, I will do a huge roast vegetable fest – one enormous tray of potatoes, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions and beetroot, cut into chunks and the potato and beetroot parboiled, and then…
Category: cooking with vegetables
Review: Apples for Jam, by Tessa Kiros
I love this cookbook. It’s the cookbook that got me making biscuits, and the cookbook that first convinced me that making my own stock wasn’t that much of a hassle and was worth the time it took. Either this cookbook…
Days when one doesn’t feel like cooking…
Am I the only person, I wonder, who, upon coming into possession of (another) cookbook tends to wind up having takeaway or pasta bake for dinner? It happens every time. I look at one gorgeous recipe after another, and want…
Recipe: Lemony Garlicky Fractal Broccoli with Pasta
I wanted to call this creamy lemony garlicky floral fractal broccoli with pasta, but I thought that might be a tad long. I haven’t cooked or eaten Romanesco Broccoli before, and the recipes I had all seemed to involve cutting…
Recipe: Red Cabbage, German style
This recipe comes from Dr Oetker’s German Cooking Today, with a few little tweaks by me. I don’t know how to describe it, because to me it’s the thing you do with red cabbage. (Apparently, there is no other thing…
Recipe: Three Roasted Vegetable Soups
Three recipes in one post today, because it’s the same (very easy!) method, but with markedly different flavours. I’ve given recipes for a very simple but delicious pumpkin soup, a subtly perfumed beetroot soup and a creamy Jerusalem artichoke soup,…
Garden to Plate: Jerusalem Artichokes
I’ve noticed a distinct trend in my occasional forays into vegetable gardening: if it’s easy to grow and doesn’t get eaten by caterpillars, you can guarantee it is monstrous to prepare (I’m looking at you, broadbeans). It must be confessed…
Review: Serving Up the Harvest, by Andrea Chesman
I bought this book a few years ago, when I discovered the wonderful world of vegetable boxes delivered to your door and was trying to work out what to do with all those brassicas (cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli and brussels sprouts…