Cabbage is one of the most under-rated and beautiful tasting vegetables if cooked correctly. It’s also full of vitamins C & A. If your childhood memories of cabbage are of a over-boiled mush, do yourself a favor and try this recipe. It might change your view on cabbage.
Now, these are SO simple and taste so divine that people will think you have slaved over a hot stove all day, which of course you have!!!
For the last few weeks the fields around our piece of paradise have been full of field mushrooms and button mushrooms all FREE for the picking. And pick them we have…
Words of WARNING:
ALWAYS CHECK WHAT MUSHROOMS ARE SAFE TO EAT BEFORE EATING THEM FROM THE FIELDS. SOME TYPES CAN KILL
What you will need:
1kg White Button [...]
Mediterranean Couscous
Ingredients:
8 ounces of Mediterranean style vegetables, prepared
Olive oil
Salt and pepper
4 ounces of dry couscous
Approximately 2 ounces of feta cheese
Approximately 2 ounces of pitted, sliced black olives
The history of olives and olive oil can be traced back to at the least biblical times. When the waters of the great flood subsided and Noah sent forth a dove it was an olive leaf she returned carrying in her mouth. It is known that as long as 6000 years ago olive oil was [...]
If you have never grilled vegetables on your barbecue before, now is the time to start. It is easy to do and you will experience tastes only obtainable by grilling.
Tip:
Don’t wash mushrooms, always wipe them using a paper towel.
Always store extra mushrooms in a paper bag.
3 medium potatoes, unpeeled and cut in half
1 small stalk finely chopped celery (including leaf) - use one of the tender inner stalks
3 T butter
3T olive oil
sea salt and black pepper to taste
Put potatoes in a pot and cover with cold water. Bring to boil, turn off heat, cover and let sit for 10 minutes. [...]
This recipe uses tiny new potatoes. We like to use our own homegrown or organic Jersey Bennies.
18 small new potatoes
2 T light olive oil
1 teas sea salt (preferably rock salt in a grinder, but fine ground sea salt will do)
Preheat oven to 230℃/450℉. Put a non-stick roasting tin in oven to heat up for 10 [...]
To bring out the flavor of asparagus add a teaspoon of sugar when cooking them.
To keep asparagus fresh for longer cut a slice off the bottom of the stalk, just enough to remove the dried portion of the stalk. Stand the stalks upright in a container of water with a pinch of salt in it. [...]
