Spring on Your Summer Table

Fresh vegetables for the barbecue, healthy salads on the side, herbs for rubs, marinades or dressings and fruit desserts, show it off! Come the summer issue, we will organize a true garden party where a good part of the menu came from containers or plants intermingled in the borders of your backyard. Fresh, flavorful and grown to your specification, you are sure this is real organic food.

Take Spring on to Your Summer Table

Plan a barbecue or garden event and invite friends and family to show off the fruits of your labor and enjoy together a wonderful home-grown dinner.

What will be on the menu?

Think char-grilled zucchini, eggplant, peppers or tomatoes, roasted new potatoes, or onion and potato parcels accompanying some lemon and rosemary chicken.

A bounty of salads displayed on the buffet, including a simple yet refreshing lettuce, tomato and onion salad, Greek salad and shredded carrot and parsley salad.

Finish with some fruit dessert, if you have started some strawberry baskets, we will have strawberry and marshmallow kebabs dipped in thick chocolate sauce, strawberry parcels or we will serve them plain, with vanilla whipped cream.

Never is too late to start your kitchen garden

Spring is the ideal time to start a ktichen garden. Don't despair if you haven't go to it yet. It is not very difficult to grow vegetables in containers and there are many suitable for the barbecue you can grow yourself. Start with the ever easy parsley or find how to grow your own herbs if you are interested in a wider variety. Vegetable gardening can be for everyone. Surely there is something you can grow, even if it is only parsley for garnishing.

 

A Hint of Herbs

Stir chervil in ham and cheese omelets. Use it in dressings for pasta or potato salads.

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Choice Tidbits

Grill! by experienced food writers Pippa Cuthbert and Lindsay Cameron Wilson. This book contains over 80 recipes and teaches readers how to achieve perfectly cooked food on the grill and in the grill pan.

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Seasonal

A selection of recipes with mushrooms to flavor the golden season.

Full of Flavor

Horseradish has a hot and piquant flavor, reminding of strong mustard, mainly used in sauces –in Western cooking, more precisely, North European cooking- for roast beef, chicken or fish; an ingredient for dips and served with vegetables such as beets or cabbage.

Wasabi –the Japanese horseradish- is used –in Japanese cooking, of course- to make a dip, more of a paste, for fish. Try wasabi paste along sushi, quite flavorful.

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