Fennel quickles
A quick pickling recipe for fennel.
The Quick Lowdown:
- Ingredients: fennel, apple cider vinegar, sea salt, white sugar, fennel seeds, black mustard seeds (I just used regular)
- Prep work: Slice up the fennel. Heat the other ingredients then pour over the fennel. Easy-peasy.
- Dirty dishes: chopping board, knife, saucepan, container for the quickles
- Family-friendly: Maybe, dependent on their toleration of pickles and fennel
- Regular rotation worthy: If I have Fennel, I will make this again.
Pickled fennel nicoise
The Quick Lowdown:
- Ingredients: fennel quickles, green beans, eggs, cucumbers, it was supposed to have black olives which I didn’t add.
- Prep work: this was easy, there was just a small amount of chopping, The eggs, beans and potatoes are all cooked in the same saucepan one after the other.
- Dirty dishes: Saucepan, knife, bowl, colander, cutting board.
- Taste: This was lovely and fresh.
- Family-friendly: Yes
- Regular rotation worthy: I would make this again. It would make a yummy lunch.
Miso-Roasted Pumpkin and Chickpeas with Kale
The pumpkin and chickpeas are coated in a miso glaze and then roasted in the oven. This is served on a bed of kale massaged with olive oil, sea salt and lemon. This makes a hearty, satisfying vegetarian meal.
The Quick Lowdown:
- Ingredients: white miso, mirin, olive oil, maple syrup, pumpkin, chickpeas, kale, lemon, pumpkin seeds.
- Prep work: A bit of cutting. Massaging the kale. It was easy.
- Dirty dishes: roasting tray, knife, bowl, cutting board.
- Taste: Good
- Family-friendly: Yes—if they eat kale. G enjoyed this one.
- Regular rotation worthy: Yes.
Do you eat vegetarian meals very often? If you do the cooking, does your household have difficult food restrictions or preferences?
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