I can’t let the Royal Wedding go by unacknowledged, I just can’t. The internet will be stuffed with fantasic sugar creations, marzipan figures and the crafting of chocolate into wedding bells, confetti and trees(?), if this morning’s news is anything to go by.
Well, I say (and I have a pavlova up my sleeve for Friday, so I’m not totally dissing the sugar), say it with vegetables.
Roasted Royal Vegetables.
My husband suggested calling it ‘The Onion Flag’. He lowered his head in shame, but it is a relatively successful title. Off with his head anyway.
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We’re having some strange weather again this Summer. It’s been cold enough to make you contemplate making a pot of stew, but yesterday it was hot again, with the Mother of all rain and murk arriving in the evening.
So what to make for dinner on these days? A strike down the middle; warming, comforting pork chops and a healthy, tumbling portion of bright and beautiful Summer vegetables.
The vegetables are utterly versatile, really, you can chuck in whatever you like – carrots, green beans, fennel, aubergine, well anything! You could liberally strew some fresh herbs over the top for the last 10-15 mins of cooking if you fancied it. I would definitely get some of the fresh basil growing in the garden and tear at it.
I would if I had basil growing in the garden, but I don’t. I’d get one for the windowsill, but Gary (the male cat) would eat it. He likes green stuff. I don’t like cat spit all over my food, so I wouldn’t like that. Hey ho.
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