Years ago, while staying at a cottage resort on Peele Island, we experienced a delightful culinary surprise during one of the breakfasts. What stood out wasn’t the main egg and meat dishes, but the unassuming side: home fries. At the first bite, these potatoes delivered a burst of flavour that made us sit back and…
Category: Vegetables
Potatoes baked in chicken stock
Ralph can’t remember where his inspiration for this starchy side was from but just remembered that the potatoes were somehow baked in chicken stock, which infuses the potatoes with rich flavour. He tried to keep this first try simple, especially since we are using our own homemade stock. You can add in crushed cloves, onions…
Curry Cauliflower in the Air Fryer
This recipe is simple and fast using only a few ingredients and the air fryer. When air-fried, cauliflower develops a crispy exterior while remaining tender on the inside. Adding curry spice to cauliflower transforms this humble veg into a fragrant warm side. Experiment by adding other spices such as garlic power and turmeric. Ingredients: Instructions:
Air Fryer Brussels Sprouts with Bacon
Today is Thanksgiving in Canada, and I bet many family celebrations will include a bowl of Brussels sprouts. They are one of my fav fall/winter veg, in addition to flower sprouts which should be out soon at the farmer’s market. But I suspect most kids at the dinner table will *pass* on the bowl of…
Blooming Onion
This is a complementary side dish when making deep fried chicken thighs using a deep fryer, as the oil is already hot and you can use up any leftover buttermilk marinade and flour mixture from the chicken. Brine ingredients: Instructions:
White asparagus (Spargel) soup in pressure cooker
Spargel season will be finished here in a few weeks, and we realized we haven’t yet made white asparagus soup. It is so yummy with very few ingredients needed as you want the asparagus flavour to shine. Here in Germany if you’re buying asparagus from the market, they offer you stems already peeled which saves…
Grüner Spargel (green asparagus) on the grill
First Spain, and now the German green asparagus is here! It is such a treat to see their debut at our farmer’s market. I find the colour of German green asparagus really beautiful with their luminescent tips. It’s almost a pity to grill them, but you can enjoy them raw too. Canadian asparagus is generally…
Spargel (white asparagus) with Hollandaise and potatoes
It’s Spargelzeit ‘asparagus time’ in Germany! Spargel is very popular here. Full menus are dedicated to this white gold of vegetables, and Germans have no problem paying the high price when first available in the season. White asparagus is grown under mounds of dirt to allow them to thicken and not produce chlorophyl before picking….
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