Cooking my way through the Tenderheart Cookbook. Soy-butter Bok Choy Pasta The Quick Lowdown: Longtime Broccoli Ignore the look of this—it tastes good. It’s a little like a confit, with the broccoli cooked slowly in an oil bath. The Quick Lowdown: How to: In a large saucepan over medium heat, put 1 head of broccoli cut…

Cooking my way through the Tenderheart Cookbook. Creamy Whole roasted Eggplant with Tomato and Lentil Sauce The Quick Lowdown: Butternut Pumpkin Lasagne The Quick Lowdown:

Cooking my way through the Tenderheart Cookbook. Both these cooks happened before we went overseas. Celery Leaf Soup We got a half piece of celery in our veggie box and it had a heap of leaves attached so Celery Leaf soup seemed like a good way to make use of something that could have easily gone…

Cooking my way through the Tenderheart Cookbook. Charred Zucchini and Sweetcorn with Basil Caesar-ish Sauce The Quick Lowdown: Carrot Peanut Satay Ramen The Quick Lowdown: Brussels-sprouts-instead-of-egg Salad I often get a box of veggies delivered and a few weeks ago we got brussels sprouts in the box. Hubby is not a fan but I saw this…

Cooking my way through the Tenderheart Cookbook. Kale Dumplings with Brothy Butter Beans I’m not a fan of butter beans; I usually find them too dry and chewy, so I made this with cannellini beans. The Quick Lowdown: Sweet Patatas Bravas Salad A familiar story … I had a bunch of sweet potatoes, the family were…

Cooking my way through the Tenderheart Cookbook. Kale, ginger and green onion noodles I picked this because these were the veggies I had floating around in my fridge at the end of the week. The Quick Lowdown: Tomato and Coconut-braised Cabbage and Lentils I had some cabbage and needed to use it. The Quick Lowdown:

One thing I love about the Tenderheart Cookbook is that it is organised by vegetables. If I have a lot of one vegetable to use up, I can turn to the appropriate section and pick out a recipe. This recipe is in the broccoli section, but I mainly chose it because I also had lettuce…

This is the next update on my challenge to cook through the Tenderheart Cookbook. The cookbook is divided up into chapters for each vegetable which came in handy this week as I was getting to the end of our veggie box, and I had lettuce, cabbage and Choy Sum to use up. Stir-fried Lettuce (p54)…

I bought Tenderheart: A Book About Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds by Hetty Lui McKinnon before Christmas and hadn’t had a chance to cook anything out of it … and so begins a new series where I plan to cook every recipe in it. I won’t be posting every recipe here, you’ll need to buy…