Category: Vegetables

Lukewarm potato salad

This a new favorite of mine, lukewarm potato salad with cucumbers and mustard dressing. Cook the potatoes till soft, meanwhile make a dressing of olive oil, white vine vinegar , plenty of dijon mustard and some crushed juniper berries. Cut the cucumber into chunks (…

edamame

Is there anything better than a bowl of salty edamame? I always ordered them in japanese restaurants, but had no clue what I was eating was actually soybeans. I found out this spring, more or less the same time I discovered that Zollinger is selling…

Harvest

Our garden is in full blossom now. So many courgettes I don’t know what to cook with them any more. We probably will have to start eating the flowers too – fried in batter a l’italienne. Today I could also harvest the first beetroot and…

Spring vegetable stew with fregola sardo

An other veggie day today. Again adapted from jamies italian cookbook. A stew of fave beans, peas, spinach, leek and artichokes. Cook you artichokes, preferably small violet ones, take off the outer leaves cut into half’s and take out thin white “hair”.  Blanch your fave…

Melanzane parmiggiana oven dish

In Sardinia again, she is not eating fish, I’m not eating meat it seems this is unintended vegetarian holiday. At least till the weather is good enough to start the grill. In summer we don’t get much nice veggies here but it’s spring now we…

Spring salad

Spring is good. Last night I made myself this very quick and very tasty salad.  The asparagus and the radish are from our allotment. First harvest this spring. I don’t have cress in the garden but at the moment I really like it I so…

A beautiful thing

This is probably the most beautiful veggie of all. Sorry sorry I don’t want to be mean to all you beautiful carrots, potatoes and such. You know it’s the intrinsic values that count, and this radish certainly is not the best veggie of all. Though,…

Broccoli Soup

I not so good in soups. Or at least not as good as I would like to be. I can do nice minestrone type of soupes. But I always make them the same way. I definitely lack fantasy and I don’t have a good book. …