We've been busy this week, cooking with our Back in the Kitchen group, some of the women at One25, and today with a gang of half-termers who'd booked our one-day Let's Cook Workshop. In amongst all that, Barny's found time to put the finishing touches to his programme for next week's Vegetarian Cookery workshop.
For those of you already booked, here's what you can expect to cook/prepare/eat and for those who haven't got a place, you can still get one!
Barny's Feast of Vegetables, Thursday 5th November 2015. 6pm
2 raw winter vegetable salads
Roast cauliflower with hazelnuts
Bruschetta of mixed greens
Vegetable frittata
Spelt grain, squash & purple sprouting with harissa
Roast vegetable curry
Goat’s cheese & vegetable pasty
And to whet your appetite even further, here's a taster in the form of one of the recipes
Bruschetta of mixed greens
This makes a delicious winter starter. Use a mix of, say 3 greens; eg curly kale, spring greens, cavolo, purple sprouting broccoli. Or just one will do nicely as well.
500g mixed greens stripped of stalk & torn into bite-sized pieces
3 red onions finely sliced
3 garlic cloves, finely sliced (not minced)
¼ tspn chilli flakes
Olive oil, lemon, black pepper, salt
In a saucepan, sweat the onions in olive oil until soft and slightly caramelised. Add garlic & chilli flakes and continue sweating till the garlic is soft and almost brown. Transfer to bowl. Don’t clean the pan.
Heat the pan with a little more olive oil until almost smoky hot, add the cabbage leaves, toss a little in the oil and then add just enough water to get the cooking of the cabbage going – about 200ml. The less you can get away with, the less you will have to drain off – along with flavour from the cabbage.
Season the cabbage with just a pinch of salt and cover with a lid. Simmer until cabbage just cooked. Remove from heat and add back the onion/garlic mixture.
Grill thick slices of bread brushed with oil and garlic. Heat up a generous mix of the cabbage in a small frying pan, heap on the slices of grilled bread
Olive oil & a squeeze of lemon…..