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Tag Archives: Vegetables
Venetian Springs to Mind
The market was flooded with Italian peas this week – some made their way into the local greengrocers. The same peas rocked between £1.65 p/kg in the market to £7.50 p/kg for the very same peas from the same grower in … Continue reading
Broccoli – the Confused Cauliflower with Roman Roots
Broccoli – love it or loathe it, like its cousin, the cauliflower. I love both so don’t understand how you could not like broccoli (or cauliflower). Early botanists were confounded as to quite how it grew its curd, they just knew it did. … Continue reading
Posted in Blue Collar Gastronomy, Brassica's, Cauliflowers, Fish, Healing Foods, Kitchen Tips, Real Italy
Tagged Blue Collar Gastronomy, Broccoli, Chinatown, Chinese Cooking, Cooking techniques, Cooking tips, food, Gareth Jones, George Bush, Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything, Vegetables
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Back off the Cauliflower please
Cauliflower is not to be sneered at – two French courts revered them – even two hairy bikers can’t knock that one – Du Barry is a dream, not a Welsh town. Continue reading
Super-Luxe Potatoes
I was brought up as a child to believe that potatoes were on the plate to fill you up – they had little value compared to the meat or other vegetables. How wrong this was. Lifting fresh potatoes, cooking and eating … Continue reading
Posted in Blue Collar Gastronomy, French Markets, Good Potatoes, Ingredients, Kitchen Tips, Label Rouge, No Compromise Shopping, Techniques
Tagged Cooking techniques, Food quality, Gareth Jones, Gareth Jones Food, Hachis Parmentier, La Ratte potatoes, Label Rouge, Linzer delikatess, Pompadour potato, potato week, Potatoes, Super-Luxe Potatoes, Vegetables
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