Archive for ‘Vegetables’

What to do with carrots? The order in which I prefer carrots is as follows: Raw Oven roasted and baked Fried in butter, with herbs As a base for broths Boiled Carrots have the most flavour, the best texture, and probably the most nutrition when eaten raw. One of my favourite ways to eat raw carrot is grated or julienned in an Asian-style cabbage ...

Hey Brits, it really is summertime. That's code for salad season! Despite what you may think when you look out the window, or when you go out for a stroll in your mac, it is technically the summer. The weather, at least in the Southeast of England, has been so humid and muggy that the last thing I've wanted was a hot meal. As ...

And a side of carrots! Hmm, that doesn't sound very exciting, does it? Here's the thing: I got a mandolin slicer, I had a huge bag of carrots, and I wanted to play. Enough said. To make the pretty design in the carrots, just score down 4 sides of each carrot and cut a small sliver out. If you don't have ...

Spinach is my BFF I crave it, sometimes irrationally, and I cannot rest until I've had my fill of this luscious green. I am convinced people who say they hate spinach have simply been served the frozen variety during their childhood, and frozen spinach really is enough to scar a person for life. I think a palak or saag is the perfect way to convince a person that spinach ...

I hate winter. I really, really, really hate winter. I hate that it doesn't get light until 7:30 and it's dark around 16:00. I hate that it's not even a real winter, with real snow and real winter coats for sale (everything's a fashion item here, at least for women, unless you want to pay a couple hundred pounds). I hate that everyone stresses ...

Let me begin by saying that I am perfectly aware that this is probably no traditional way to make couscous and I'm happy with that. I'm interested in food tradition, but I find the end result far more appealing; if it tastes good then who cares how it was made? I have been wanting to find a way to use ...

Risotto afficionados, it seems, are very precice and, for lack of better word, anal, about their creations. I'm pretty sure I break many rules in the book here, like not mixing the butter with the rice before I serve it. In most risottos, I would mix it. The reason I don't mix the butter in this recipe is because it sits so well with the lemon ...

No pictures, sorry! So my mom bought me a pressure cooker while I was in the states. It's not a kitchen appliance I'd ever used, nor is it one I'd ever given much thought to owning. But then, when my mother handed me this monstrous thing to go into my already crammed suitcase, I remembered some dish my parents used to make when I was little. This ...

Once you get into the habit of making your own stocks, you will loathe to use bouillion cubes ever again. I am picky about my level of salt and I find that not only are store-bought stock powders and cubes far too salty, but also much less tasty than a homemade broth. I generally keep a litre or so of stock (at least) in my freezer ...

It was one of those days that flew by and when I looked at the clock it was already dinner time. As a result I wanted to make something simple to eat, something along the lines of a protein and two-veg meal. We had some frozen minted peas (the only acceptable frozen vegetable in my opinion) and since I'm currently having a vegetarian love affair with the little ...