How to prepare cauliflower

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This is how to start with a whole califlower and finish with only the best of the vegetable.

Warm Leek and Potato Salad

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This simple salad combines leeks (boiled and thoroughly drained) with sliced potatoes in a good vinaigrette.

Carrot-top pesto

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You will no doubt be familiar with classic pesto. Here is an alternative, zero-waste version using carrot tops for a surprising pesto, full of fresh flavour.

How to rehydrate dried mushrooms

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Rehydrating dried mushrooms restoes them to something like their fresh texture, ready to use in a recipe. You will see that there is more to it than simply leaving them to soak in water. At the same time, we can also make a delicious mushroom "jus" to use in recipes. Throughout the recipe, I have used morels as the example, but the same applies to any other dried mushrooms.

Sorrel omelette

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A sorrel omelette is, unsurprisingly, a classic omelette with chopped sorrel added, but it is also served with a reduced cream and sorrel sauce.

Baby broad beans and peas with rice and mascarpone

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Fresh spring vegetables (peas and young broad beans here) with white rice, made creamy at the last minute with a little mascarpone.

Pork medallions with "full" turnips

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This recipe brings together sautéed medallions of pork filet mignon and turnips, pan-fried then filled with a creamy mixture made from their own green tops. As in all the best cookery, nothing is wasted.

Pan-baked hash brown (Hash-brown casserole)

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This hash-brown recipe is an American version of the classic grated potato cake (like roesti), baked in a pan. In the USA hash browns are often served for breakfast.

How to prepare corn salad

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Corn salad (or lamb's lettuce) is a green salad plant. It can be used like lettuce, but requires careful preparation as it is often grown in sand. Here is how to prepare corn salad from the freshly picked plant to the leaves ready to use.

How to prepare cabbage

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Cabbage can be used cooked or raw, whole leaves or in julienne. Here is how to prepare a cabbage julienne.

How to prepare sorrel

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Here is how to clean and cut fresh leaves to use in a recipe, by removing stalks and central vein, to retain only the very best of the sorrel.

How to prepare a lettuce

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It is much more economical to buy a whole lettuce than separate leaves in a plastic packet. And it's so simple to prepare - you can see how here.

Creamy risotto with vegetables

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Risotto is one of the many delights of italian cooking... Here is a version with vegetables cooked separately, and their stock used to cook rice. Delicious, as you will see...

Vegetable rosette tart

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Blanched courgettes and carrots arranged in a rosette with a feta filling.

Salmon chard rolls

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For this dish only the green part of the chard is used. The blanched leaves are rolled around grilled salmon portions. The rolls are served coated with a savoury lemon sabayon, or the sauce of your choice.

How to prepare spinach

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For most people (and me most of all), spinach brings back bad memories of canteens... But, well prepared, it's a fine and delicate vegetable which goes remarkably well with scrambled eggs, fish, and many another things. Here are two ways of preparing it.

How to prepare broccoli

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Broccoli are vegetable cousins to cauliflowers. Here's how to prepare them for using in a recipe.

How to prepare romanesco

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Here is how to take a whole romanesco and end up with small pieces ready to use in a recipe.

How to prepare endives

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A very classic recipe, but which can easily fail due to two main errors: too much water in bottom of dish because endives give off a lot, and endives that are too bitter so that children hate it. Here is a method which avoids these two problems.

Macédoine of vegetables

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A macédoine is simply vegetables diced small (carrots and turnips) or cut small (green beans) with peas. The different vegetables are cooked separately "à l'anglaise", then thoroughly drained. They are only combined at the end in a mayonnaise dressing.

Where we see that the salad spinner can be used for many other purposes.
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This is an attempt to address the question that all parents and grandparents, maybe you included, face so often: how can we get children to like vegetables? And at the same time, we might get away from the familiar, day-in, day-out round of pasta, chips, toast.. Well, I can hear you say, it's...
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We are currently (as I write this) in the season of fresh spinach, and it is a delicious vegetable that unfortunately has a bad reputation among a lot of people, children and teenagers in particular. I wonder if this lack of appetite isn't due to what I call, probably unfairly, "school food...
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Drain

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Refers to food or a preparation from which you want to remove the liquid part, such as the cooking water.
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Salad spinner

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A salad spinner is a simple device: a kind of mesh basket which is spun by turning a handle on the lid. As the basket turns very fast, any items in it are forced agaisnt the sides by centrifugal force, and the water (or other liquid) they contain is spun off and collects in the bottom of the...
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