Tag: fennel
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Green Bean Salad with Fried Almonds
Generally when I make a green bean salad I keep it pretty simple I cook the green beans, blanche them in an ice bath then dress them with olive oil and vinegar season them salt and pepper and that’s it. For special occasions when I want something a bit fancier I often make this green…
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Soothing Fennel, Potato, and Leek Gratin Recipe
This is my favorite potato gratin, the combination of leeks, potato and fennel is altogether incredibly soothing and comforting. You can serve it as a side as part of a bigger meal but I’ve served it on its own with a greens and beetroot salad – called it dinner and been well satisfied. Fennel, Potato…
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Slow Roasted Winter Vegetables Recipe
Normally when I roast vegetables I’m all about getting maximum crunchiness and caramelization, but a few years ago I discovered this method of roasting vegetables from Luisa Weiss at Wednesday Chef. Here the vegetables are chopped into small pieces, then slow roasted for hour or more, until the flavors meld and intensify. For an entire…
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Delhi Style Sweet and Sour Pumpkin Recipe by Madhur Jaffrey
Pumpkin is one one of my favorite vegetables but a lot of Indians I know seem to loathe it – probably because during monsoon season, it is one of the few vegetables available and they get completely sick of it by the time they reach adulthood. I survived a childhood pumpkin glut when my Dad…
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Vibrant Roasted Cauliflower and Pomegranate Salad
It’s autumn and pomegranate season in Sydney. I can see quite a few pomegranate trees as I walk round my suburb, with the over-ripe fruit splitting open and dropping to the ground. None of my local trees are conveniently located near the fence, so I haven’t been able to harvest any of my suburb’s bounty…
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Lentil, Fennel, and Cress Soup Recipe
Soup season is on the wane in Sydney but in between the heat spikes, there is still the opportunity to enjoy a nice bowl of soup. This lentil soup is from my archives, a photocopy – from the 1990s when people actually used to photocopy recipes from books. I remember the friend who passed on…
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Heartwarming Vegan Swedish Yellow Split Pea Soup Recipe
Sometimes, it’s hard to get up the enthusiasm to write much about a recipe, not because I don’t love it, but I feel like enthusing too much about something as humble and simple as this split pea soup, is kind of ridiculous. What more can I really say about it except that it’s my new…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 