Food
Fast, Fresh & Green
Food
Fast, Fresh & Green
Like most folks, I struggle with getting enough fruits and veggies during the day. Most vegetable dishes on our table end up being either salads or roasted vegetables of some kind - save for the occasional all-veg, no-meat weekend I impose on my family just to assuage my guilt. When the folks from Chronicle sent me a copy of Susie Middleton's new
Fast, Fresh & Green - More Than 90 Delicious Recipes For Veggie Lovers, I could feel the guilt setting in again. I'm SO bad at remembering to try new side dish/vegetable recipes from my cookbooks. It's the meat and eggs and cheese and baked goods that invariably catch my attention. [caption id="attachment_606" align="aligncenter" width="250" caption="Fast, Fresh & Green by Susie Middleton"]
[/caption] I'm really not gushing when I say that this book really got me jazzed about cooking vegetables again and out of the roast-everything-with-olive-oil-salt-and-pepper rut that I'd been stuck in. It's all about adding the sexy to veggies, and the cookbook concentrates on a few simple techniques (quick roasting, quick braising and hands-on sauteeing, for example) and then punching them up with a mixture of flavors (both from the veg themselves as well as condiments, aromatics, herbs and other addons) that will help you add the zing to your zucchini (I can't believe I just wrote that). Mouthwatering recipes (that come together in very little time for the most part) include:
- Quick-Roasted Cauliflower with Zesty Orange-Olive Dressing
- Roasted Turnips and Pears with Rosemary-Honey Drizzle
- Cider-Braised Baby Bok Choy and Golden Apples
- Sauteed Savoy Cabbage with Apple Cider Butter
- Crushed Red Potatoes with Scallions, Pancetta and Sour Cream*
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