I know summer's here when the KOA shop is open in the village. This year the money is being raised to help young people in Ghana. I found these baking pans there including a nice bunt pan; and some garden vegetables, perfect for summer salads. Thankfully not everything got eaten on the walk home...I can't resist those tiny baby courgettes...
(oh and a cute little fish knife...I know it's not much use alone but I like it and I'm sure it'll come to good use for something...)
I used the courgettes to make a garden salad with baby spinach leaves, cooked sweet potato, walnuts and tangy Persian feta cheese. Dressed with pumpkin seed oil and Balsamic vinegar it was a perfect balance of sweet and savoury...mmm...
I was really pleased to get the green beans at just 30p a bunch, as you can see mine are still too tiny to pick. They were delicious in a mixed salad with baby cos lettuce leaves, radishes, spring and red onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, boiled egg, carrot shavings, honeysuckle flowers and dill from my rubbish bin bed! This time I made a dressing with honey, grainy Dijon mustard, olive oil, a little sea salt and Balsamic vinegar.
I'm obsessively reading Jekka's Complete Herb Book (the revised edition) written by Jamie Oliver's friend, Jekka McVicar and discovered that not only are honeysuckle flowers edible but you can also make tea from them that tastes fragrantly delicious, is used for treating coughs, catarrh and asthma, as a lotion is good for skin infections; and "has an outstanding curative action in cases of colitis." ...well blow me... hence the use of flowers in the salad...and the copious mugs of honeysuckle tea I'm consuming...
I was really pleased to get the green beans at just 30p a bunch, as you can see mine are still too tiny to pick. They were delicious in a mixed salad with baby cos lettuce leaves, radishes, spring and red onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, boiled egg, carrot shavings, honeysuckle flowers and dill from my rubbish bin bed! This time I made a dressing with honey, grainy Dijon mustard, olive oil, a little sea salt and Balsamic vinegar.
I'm obsessively reading Jekka's Complete Herb Book (the revised edition) written by Jamie Oliver's friend, Jekka McVicar and discovered that not only are honeysuckle flowers edible but you can also make tea from them that tastes fragrantly delicious, is used for treating coughs, catarrh and asthma, as a lotion is good for skin infections; and "has an outstanding curative action in cases of colitis." ...well blow me... hence the use of flowers in the salad...and the copious mugs of honeysuckle tea I'm consuming...
you can see other peoples finds this week here
