Category Archives: Vivacious vegetables

Recipes containing vegetables as their main ingredient

Raw…..

Perfect summer fare for hot, sticky days. This salad is raw and inexplicably good. I can’t take the credit for the marriage of ingredients as the base of it has to be credited to the wonderful chef Jacob Kennedy of … Continue reading

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‘Princess and the Pea’ Pasta

Oh how to make to make the ‘little people’ eat more green food? Always a slight dilemma in our home unless you add the magic pasta. Somehow this genius addition means I can slip in all sorts of vegetables and … Continue reading

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A footnote on tomatoes

  Tomatoes shout summer – I have always adored them and get thoroughly excited when the first properly tasty ones arrive in the shops around this time of year. Being an utterly hopeless tomato grower – 3 years on the trot … Continue reading

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The A-list Egg

May is a greedy month for those who love  British asparagus and gulls eggs. Both have similar seasons, yet one is much rarer and somewhat more expensive. At a whopping £4.00 an egg (Rex, Chelsea Green) you certainly don’t want … Continue reading

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Roll on English asparagus, summer is on the way (we hope)

I don’t think I ever tried asparagus until I was nestled far south in New Zealand at the age of 18. Since then I have made up for lost time and whenever the English asparagus season starts I buy vast … Continue reading

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