Entries in green beans (10)
summer gnocchi
Monday, July 20, 2009 at 06:00 
this dish was the result of my need to use up a tub of ricotta before it passed its sell-by date. i had bought it to stuff courgette flowers with but didn’t manage to cook with the flowers before they wilted beyond use, despite my best efforts – they really do need to be used on the day you pick/get them.
so, i turned to dennis cotter and decided to adapt his semolina gnocchi recipe, using ricotta in place of the goats cheese, adding a handful of herbs from garden – sage, oregano and thyme – and topping the gnocchi with a lightly cooked mix of green beans (again from the garden), peas and broad beans. i finished it with a lime cream, having run out of lemons.
the result was delicious – very light, summery and perfect if you want something a bit special, either as a treat or if you are cooking for friends. the gnocchi adapted well to having the ricotta added and was very forgiving of my use of twice as much cheese as the original recipe called for. i also baked it for much longer than the original recipe suggests – 10-15 minutes each side, having turned them over once, rather than the suggested 10 minutes in total. this gave me golden slight crunchy gnocchi which went really well with the lightly cooked vegetables.
beans, gnocchi, green beans, lime, peas in vegetarian daring cooks: fish, traditional flavours powdered
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 06:00 
this is my third month as a daring cook and the challenge was something special – a molecular gastronomy recipe a la el bulli, heston blumenthal etc.
chosen by sketchy from sketchy’s kitchen, this grant achatz recipe is from the alinea cookbook – skate with traditional flavours, powdered. or, in more explicit terms, fish, served atop a bed of green beans and banana (!) with powdered capers, lemon, onions, herbs and butter.
gulp! so, how did i get on?
bananas, green beans in fish, foodblogging events broad and green bean pasta with lemon and pink peppercorns
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 07:00 
i had a wonderful treat earlier this week, i received my first broad beans of the season, squeaky fresh and completely delicious, courtesy of food4london.
my immediate temptation was to have them in a salad with the peas and courgettes which accompanied them but i had a real pasta craving so decided to try draw inspiration from an ottolenghi recipe which pairs them with lemon and pink peppercorns.
i added thinly sliced courgette discs and green beans to the mix and the result was a lovely pasta dish full of the flavours of summer. i am sharing this with graziana of erbe in cucina who is this week's host of presto pasta nights.
beans, courgettes, green beans, lemon in foodblogging events, pasta, vegan, vegetarian red and green salad
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 06:00 
this salad was very simple to pull together and makes wonderful use of our seasonal vegetables. make some slow-roasted tomatoes (or you could use sun-blush or sun-dried tomatoes). green beans and asparagus were then blanched in boiling water until just cooked (i do the asparagus first, remove them with a slotted spoon and then cook the beans as i always seem to get a layer of scum when i boil beans). dress the warm beans with olive oil and lemon juice and arrange on a plate with the tomatoes. sprinkle with toasted pine nuts (you can roast these for 5-10 minutes while you are cooking the tomatoes but keep an eye on them so they don’t burn).
asparagus, green beans, tomatoes in salad, vegan, vegetarian 