Over the past few months some interesting things have been happening ... first I got a vege garden started, something I'd been thinking about for a year or so, and now I am crazy about vegetables and fruit and different ways to cook them. I am reading recipes like fiction and spending much more time preparing every meal. A complete turn-around for me, although I've always enjoyed baking and don't mind making dinner, I've never bothered with lots of dressings and sauces and fancy preparation. But now all that has changed!
Some delicious foods we have enjoyed in the last 10 days:
Parsnips roast in a burnt butter sauce with orange (this was so good we had it again a few days later!)
Feta, Asparagus & Baked Sweet Potato Quiche
Lots of asparagus - favourite dressing is 2:1 wholegrain mustard and honey - yum!
Tomato, Basil and Feta salads
Fresh Peas with Caraway & Parmesan
Lemon Pepper Fish
Rosemary Chicken with Pumpkin and Spinach Salad
... and the list goes on.
a very colourful salad - had this one plain without any dressing
My inspirations:
French Women Don't Get Fat and the sequel
Fast Veges
One Magic Square (growing vegetables and ideas for cooking them)
and
Table Tucker - which I am trying as a complete menu and shopping plan, but adding more yummy vegetables. So far we have enjoyed every meal from this book, which we started using last week. I am especially enjoying not having to choose the meals for the week, but still creating some delicious side dishes and lunches when I feel like being creative.
From our garden we are currently eating snow peas, spinach, coriander, parsley, tatsoy, basil, chives and shallots. Soon we will have broad beans and broccoli. They are not large amounts each day but they are enough to add to other types of bought vegetables and make a difference to a meal. For the summer we are growing capsicum, carrots, radishes, zucchini and probably tomatoes too.
Where will my food adventures take me next, I wonder?
