a warm salad of roasted carrot, cauliflower, dal & mustard
It’s so good to have my site back. It had disappeared for ten days, and having it back was like having the comfort of an old friend. We just returned from a holiday with my husband’s family, travelling through parts of Kerala in the South of India. We started in Cochin, staying in a lovely […]
celebration salad
A celebration of extraordinary abundance from the garden using freshly picked kale leaves, the first of the walnuts from a tree I didn’t know we had, and the last of those pears. This salad is best eaten independently, as the kale is surprisingly satisfying and hearty. This way, you also enjoy the joyous flavours, surprises […]
ribollita
listen carefully to your body and mind and you will always hear it speak. There are many, many versions of this soup. My version replaces the bread with whole barley, red, or wild rice. Traditionally, ribollita uses Cavelo Nero kale—a beautiful black cabbage. I use a combination of savoy cabbage and kale. Allow this dish […]
sweet potato, carrot & kale palya
palya Palya is a Kannada (South Indian language) word for a dry side dish made with any vegetable or a combination. Palya is usually cooked in dry heat, which brings out the flavour of the vegetables when the natural sugars in the vegetables caramelize and the flavour is concentrated. Small pieces of uniformly cut vegetables […]
