Posted by kathryn in Blogging, Vegetables and Legumes

Some of the juicy, juicy stuff I’ve spotted recently.

• White beans & a book: I love this white beans with rosemary recipe from Jules at Stonesoup_. She matches it with lamb cutlets, I can imagine mashing it on toast for breakfast or lunch. And along with the white beans, Jules has announced pre-orders are available for her new book "_And The Love is Free":http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2009/06/and-the-love-is-free-some-shameless-self-promotion/. There’s a tasty little sample you can download before ordering.
• Eating at work: A neat picture and summary of how Mark Bittman does it – dining al desko that is. It’s not an elaborate meal – in fact it’s very simple – but despite no stove and minimal equipment, he still makes something tasty, using in season ingredients.
• Did you know you could eat these? Since finding out radish and turnip tops were delicious, I’ve been eager to find other vegetable “scraps” that are actually edible. A Sonoma Garden has a neat list of five things you didn’t know you could eat.
• Medieval food podcast: I’m a recent convert to podcasting and I have to say I couldn’t get enough of this Book Show offering. It’s about the history of the spice trade, but it’s the discussion of Medieval cooking and entertaining that hooked me.
• Cooking with quinoa: Lovely recipe from the Messy Vegetarian Cook for Arabic influenced quinoa. Spices, tomatoes, pine nuts, fresh herbs and lemon juice, all gently cooked together.
• Growing & eating radishes: The lovely Elaine has put together a cracker post on radishes. It has gardening information, links, recipes, beautiful pictures of her crop, as well as the nutritionals. An excellent resource.
• On hating Masterchef: A piece from the inimitable Danny Katz on why he hates Masterchef.

Photograph by Kaishin.

20 June, 2009