A bright and vibrant way with seasonal vegA bowl of steaming broth, swirls of miso paste and young spring vegetables.Put 750ml of vegetable or chicken stock on to boil. Trim 200g of small spring carrots and cut them in half lengthways. Let them cook in the boiling stock for 7 or 8 minutes until they are tender to the point of a knife. Tip 150g of shelled peas (fresh or frozen) into the stock, leave to boil for 3 minutes (fresh peas will take an extra couple of minutes or so). Continue reading
A little sweet, a little sour, rather sticky – and irresistible!Two oranges have been sitting in the fruit bowl since 24 January. I can be precise thanks to the boastful photographs of marmalade I took on 25 January, having bought the fruit the day before. Only half the oranges became marmalade (which filled 10 jars and made every surface in the kitchen sticky), so to start with a dozen or so sat in the bowl. They are not bitter oranges, nor are they sweet, which is why they have been consumed...
A light springtime meal using the freshest spears you can find (which, ideally, means picking them at midnight)In favourable conditions (warm and sunny, but sheltered), asparagus can grow several inches a day. The Canadian Food Focus website claims a fantastic 15cm in 24 hours – which must also be noisy, if you have an ear close enough. Even if the reality is half that, it’s enough for me to consider spending a day in a field of it. I would need to lie down low – on an inflatable lilo, maybe –...
A vibrant soup-stew with croutes and a dish of cheesy asparagus to put a taste of spring on your plateThere’s a deep bowl of soup on the table, green as a summer lawn, chock-full of spring vegetables, waiting to be ladled out. There are leeks and courgettes, tiny green peas, spring onions and broad beans all jostling for attention. There are crusts of bread, toasted and piled with an emerald paste of basil and pine kernels, floating on the surface.The toasts, sliced from a baguette and slathered...
This golden broth is perfect for any soup, but it’s especially good for matzo ball soup.
This golden broth is perfect for any soup, but it’s especially good for matzo ball soup.
Early spring is a very exciting time to hit the farmers’ market. There are so many fruits and veggies that have been waiting all winter to be edible.
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DENHAM SPRINGS — Festivalmania continues over the weekend in Denham Springs.The annual Spring Festival is being held Saturday in Denham Springs' antique district. Festival visitors can expect a celebration of local art and antiques with more than 150 vendors set up along Range Avenue. The festival expects 10,000 visitors."Our festival is known all over," said Kim Bye, one of the festival's organizers. "People who have been with us for 15, 20 years say that this is their favorite festival...
As the much-anticipated 18th series of the BBC hit show returned earlier this year, 18 new contestants gave their all to impress business tycoon Lord Alan Sugar and his companions Baroness Karren Brady and Tim Campbell MBE. Rachel Woolford and her fellow Leeds contestant Dr Paul Midha picked off the competition as they both made it through to the gruelling interview stages. But after Dr Paul turned down an offer from Lord Sugar, it was Rachel who made it through to the grand final, where she...