GREEN CUISINE (GREEN GODDESS)

Our Curly Kale has grown more vigorously this year than the Cavolo Nero, which was so successful last season.  So it has been interesting finding new ways to cook with this nutrient-boosting vegetable.

Two contrasting recipes, one more suited perhaps to a dinner with guests and the other a quick Saturday night 'takeaway' tea, fit the bill perfectly.
 

Wholemeal calzone with greens pairs chorizo with garlicky kale and mozzarella. 

 

Add a colourful salad and it becomes even more of a healthy option

 

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/237610/calzone-with-greens

 

Mixing the kale with mascarpone and garlic gives a beautiful green hue to a stuffing for chicken wrapped in bacon. 

 

Moreish home-grown parsnips and sweet potatoes, roasted with red onions, make a wonderful sticky accompaniment.



https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/creamy-kale-chicken-traybake

 

With the evenings drawing in it might even be time to start considering popping some soup in the freezer.

 

Hints of lime and ginger put a delicious  twist on this kale and broccoli offering - so green and gorgeous it even dyed my blender.  Hopefully all that goodness will rub off on me!

 

 

 

 

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/alkalising-green-soup

 

CABBAGES AND KINGS

Well if someone had told me a few years ago how excited I'd be when I grew my first cabbage I'd have laughed out loud, but chuffed to bits I was when I cut my first one, eagerly anticipating the crispy heart tucked inside it's floppy leaves and immediately making plans for coleslaw with our weekend barbecue!

 

I enjoyed the normal bog standard recipe with salads and sandwiches, particularly when I added home-grown grated kohl rabi and baby turnip,  but if you want to put a twist on things you might like to try this spicier alternative for those that like a bit of heat.

 

 

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/red-cabbage-pickled-chilli-slaw 

 

 The recipe uses red cabbage but I used the white variety and it still worked a treat.

Our harvest finally arrived with a vengeance! After lots of doom, gloom and pessimism that nothing would grow because of the changeable weather we have been dropping off veg baskets to family and friends on a regular basis as we try to keep up with the glut.  The only failure so far has been the cauliflowers but I don't feel too downhearted about that as apparently,  according to BBC News, it is a countrywide problem causing a shortage in the supermarkets!

These pictures just capture the start of the mayhem.  Since then we have been deluged with beans, dwarf and runner,  an incredible sweetcorn harvest, enjoyed the beauty of the rainbow chard, (not the eating of according to my nearest and dearest!)  not to mention the inter-breeding of courgettes in my fridge!

 

This vegetable onslaught has put a time constraint on blogging, although I have tried lots of delicious new recipes, but hopefully now we are more on top of things I will be able to put that right and share some of them with you.