Beware of out of season beans sold in tinted plastic bags – it’s a scam to enhance their green colour.
I don’t know why people don’t cook omelettes more often. They’re so quick, so tasty and so utterly satisfying, that it’s almost criminal to think of dashing off to buy fast food when there’s an egg or two in the pantry.
Just waiting for those big mounds of asparagus to appear in shops, then you know it’s fresh, plentiful and cheap!
Who said kaffir limes don’t have juice?
Though it seems just like yesterday, it was in fact 40 years ago that I spent a week walking the hills of Crete.
A striking memory is the aromatic scents that rose all around us as we crushed wild thyme and oregano underfoot. The oregano was ‘rigani’, origanum vulgare (hirtum). Bit of a gob-full, I suppose, but the last name (hirtum) is pretty important.
Feijoas are legendary in a crumble, but there’s plenty more you can do with them.
Our favourite way with zucchini flowers is stuffed and fried (anything fried at our place is a no-brainer!).
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