Quicklinks
Posted by kathryn in Legumes, Soups, Salads and Dinners
- Beetroot muffins: Having completed the A – Z of vegetables, Charlotte from The Great Big Vegetable Challenge has started posting school lunch recipes. In response to her son’s questions where’s the pudding? she made these beetroot, apple and buttermilk muffins.
- Nigel Slater cleans out his cupboards: I’ve been sorting out my pantry recently, in preparation for moving. So it was lovely (and timely) to read Nigel Slater’s piece about what he calls the annual mung bean shuffle. There are some lovely recipes at the end.
- Silverbeet, chickpea & tamarind stew: Gosh this recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi looks good: tangy, a bit sour and yet full of goodness. Thanks to Zoe from Progressive Dinner Party who first pointed it out to me.
- Watercress & kale soup: It’s pretty green, but I just love the thought of Holler from Tinned Tomatoes kale, watercress and potato soup. I think it’s the inspired drizzle of sundried tomato dressing that just sets the soup off. Glorious.
- Easy cucumber salad: What a lovely salad from A Life (Time) of Cooking herbs and poppy seeds massaged into cucumbers. Sharp, sweet and a bit hot with the crunch of cucumbers. Lovely, lovely idea.
- Amazing lycopene: I don’t usually point to new research, but this one features my favourite antioxidant. Published in the American Journal of Clinicn Nutrition is the suggestion that lycopene and other antioxidants may protect against bone loss and osteoporosis in older people. Yet another reason to eat your vegies.
Menu for Hope
For those of you who bought tickets in the Menu For Hope fund-raising raffle, Chez Pim has announced all the prizewinners.
The Limes & Lycopene prize – six weeks of food and nutrition coaching was won by . . . Amanda McInerney.
Congratulations Amanda – send me an email and we’ll make a plan for your nutrition coaching.
Cucumber photograph by Annethelibrarian.
23 January, 2009
Comments
Oooh, I love the sound of that watercress and kale soup. I was just wondering what to cook with the kale that’s appeared in our supermarket. Thanks K.
Hi Kathryn, thanks for the link. Did you notice that the inspiration for the cucumber recipe came from Ottolenghi’s cookbook – from one of my fav cafes in London, and by the very same Yotam Ottolenghi of the chickpea recipe that you mention. Small world. I was lucky enough to be given the cookbook for Xmas. It is wonderful. (My cucumber recipe is a little different to the one in the cookbook, but the inspiration came from theirs.)
Mallika: let me know how you find the kale soup. We’re definitely not in soup weather, but interested in any feedback.
Ganga: I’m totally in love with Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes. They are glorious, marvelous things. I think I’ve bookmarked two-thirds of the recipes from his New Vegetarian series. I’m going to have to get a copy of his book. I’m also in love with this picture of his meringues. Brilliant, brilliant cook.
Kathryn – I’d highly recommend the Ottolenghi book. The recipes are fantastic. The only slight disappointment I have with it is that only part of the book is recipes in the style of his New Vegetarian column. There are a lot of meat and fish recipes in there and a huge baking section. I’d still give it five out of five though!
p.s loved the Nigel Slater article – his cupboards sound like mine (apart from the cats ashes!)
The soup sounds very interesting I must give it a try!
I’m with Sophie – the Ottolenghi is sensational, but meat-dense. I love all the white space around the recipes. Gives you space to make your own notes, something the design of most books doesn’t really allow for.
I made the olive oil crackers from it on Monday and man, are they good. Hard to stop nibbling at.
Sophie & Lucy you’ve persuaded me – I’ve put the Ottolenghi book on order this morning. Can’t wait.
Sophie given we’re moving soon, I’m doing the mung bean shuffle at the moment. Throwing out what’s overdue and using up the odds and ends in containers. It’s highly satisfying in an odd way.
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