Eat what’s in season. Pumpkin on its own maybe boring but adding it to other dishes brightens and gently sweetens them. The hardy creature gives
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Eggs in Piedmont Sauce
It is a great way to utilize eggs in case you have too many. Just boil the eggs, I usually take “the oldest” ones, place
Abundance of Cilantro!
It’s not just a way to preserve such fragrant and delicate herb but make a great condiment of your own.
Here is one idea – cilantro pesto:
Ingredients:
- Cilantro – about 1 cup (stems can be used too)
- Garlic – 3-4 cloves
- Red pepper flakes
- Lime juice 2-3 tbsp
- Olive oil – 3/4 of a cup
- Pistachios – 1/4 cup
- Salt -1/2 tsp
- Pepper – 1/4 tsp
- Optional – Manchego cheese
Directions:
- Put all the ingredients into the food processor and pulse till it becomes a paste.
- It can stay in the fridge for weeks, great with rice, pasta, fish, cracker or just slice of bread.
Zucchini Flowers Tempura
Cut fresh “male” flowers, the ones with long stems. Don’t worry – very few of them can pollinate lots of female flowers, so you don’t put your zucchini harvest in danger.
Ingredients
- flour – 2 tbsp
- baking powder 1/4 tsp
- sparkling water – 1/3 cup
- grape seed oil -2-3 tbsp
Directions:
- Mix flour with the baking powder and start adding your sparkling water gradually stirring constantly to avoid lumps.
- Heat the oil in the pan, dip each flower and every sage leaf into the batter and put into the hot oil
- Fry about 2 min on each side till golden brown
- Sprinkle with salt
You can add some sage leaves to the bouquet, applying the same tempura treatment to them:
Fish and chips Ramsay style
Rockfish pieces triple dipped: flour, egg, breadcrumbs with chopped dill. Potato strips blanched for 3 minutes in a boiling water, then seasoned, sprinkled with olive
Zucchini Season
It’s been a really good season for zucchini this year. Try this when you are tired of grilling and frying them. Pickled Cut zucchini and
Pig in a gluten free blanket.
The blanket is actually a dish of it’s own. Roasted with some olive oil disks of cabbage can easily be eaten as a separate dish
Cheese board – grilled edition
Everything on this board is grilled (with the exception of fig leaves) – halloumi, normandy camembert, even burrata. Threw in some sausages for the meat
The real cherries
Sour cherries – those are the real cherries! Where I come from, sweet cherries are even known by a different name- “chereshnya” (черешня). There is
From garden to table
Isn’t it beautiful? Sometimes it’s a little too much, or absolutely impossible to consume. But I would hate to allow it to spoil and throw
