Posted in Allotments, Recipe of the month, Unusual veg on Jan 23rd, 2012
Romanian Sirbusca (Potato and Root Parsley soup-stew) Deciding what you do with your root parsley once you’ve grown it is easy: you just plump for one of its multiple identities and use it just like you would parsnips, or carrots (or parsley, if you’re using the tops). We had ours roasted alongside the Sunday joint, [...]
Posted in Recipe of the month on Dec 13th, 2011
Pan-fried Brussels sprouts with bacon, shallots and juniper This may come as a shock, but you don’t have to boil sprouts. I know it’s traditional: I know it’s the way we all do it. But sprouts are so much more versatile than that. You can have them raw, shredded into salads with salami or hazelnuts; roast [...]
Posted in Recipe of the month on Nov 18th, 2011
Squash and lentil curry Although it’s vegetarian this is a really meaty winter stew – the kind that warms your stomach all day long, a bit like an internal electric blanket. I used my wonderful potimarron squash, which makes for a subtly unusual flavour and even more weighty texture. but you can make it with any type of winter squash. [...]
Posted in Fruit, Recipe of the month on Oct 7th, 2011
Pears poached in red wine My mum used to make this as the spectacular dessert at her tour-de-force set-piece dinner parties (this was the 70s, remember: they did things like that then). It was a canny choice: it looks like the most amazingly sophisticated dish, yet it takes five minutes to put together and you make the whole thing in advance [...]
Posted in Recipe of the month, Unusual veg on Aug 23rd, 2011
Kohlrabi Soup At last, here it is: the answer to all those heartfelt cries of kohlrabi growers everywhere: ‘well, now what do I do with it?!’ This is one of my favourite vegetable soups: just the right side of chunky, thick and filling, and you can just pull the ingredients out the veg patch any time [...]
Apples (late varieties like Cox's Orange Pippin), beetroot, cabbage (green and red), carrots, celeriac, chard, Jerusalem artichokes, kale, kohlrabi, medlars, parsnips, pumpkins, quince, raspberries (autumn varieties), salad leaves, sprout tops, squashes, turnips
