Vegetables
Recipes, reviews and food commentary on vegetables
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Anna Jones’s recipes and tips for cooking with grains and seedsAnna Jones recipes: Grains are affordable, nutrient-rich and have a long shelf-life, just waiting to plump up a carrot and harissa salad, or add depth and bulk to this all-green miso soup
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Yotam Ottolenghi’s slider recipesSliders, or mini-burgers, are all the rage these days, but there’s no law that says you have to fill them with meat
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Readers’ recipe swap: leeksYour allium endeavours for croustades, crumbles and soups sing the quiet praises of this silken stalwart in a fitting swansong for the Swap
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The weekend cook: how to make ramen at homeRamen is the ultimate Japanese comfort food, and it’s nowhere near as hard to make as you might think
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Out of flavour: why tomatoes have lost their tasteAfter exhaustive studies, an international team of scientists has worked out why tomatoes don’t taste like they used to
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Rachel Roddy’s winter vegetable bake recipeRachel Roddy recipes: Delve into this crisp surface of potato and butternut squash, past sweetly yielding red onions and sage, to find a pleasantly bitter layer of radicchio at its core. You’ll want to make it again and again ...
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Anna Jones’s recipe for homemade energy barsThe modern cook: For those of us who need a little snacking support between our three square meals a day, these chocolate chip bites, sesame and green olive bars and brownie energy bites offer a powerful pick-me-up without the sugar rush – and crash
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Courgette crisis: Spanish farmers hope the worst is overCold snap fordes up some vegetable prices by more than double in past week alone. Solace for some Murcia farmers, tragedy for others
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The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ parsnip risotto and blood orange cake recipesWhen it’s cold outside, there are few better ways to warm yourself up than with a spot of proper home cooking
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Losing the plot: courgette crisis spreads to other vegetablesSnow across Spanish farming areas mean the growing shortages in tomatoes, salad leaves, peppers and celery - and higher prices - may last into spring
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How Guardian readers are coping with the courgette crisisOur readers share their coping tips and pictures of the lesser-spotted vegetable
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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for pasta with broccoli and sausageRachel Roddy recipes: A cold snap in Rome has given the broccoli frostbite, but it’s still perfect for the pot. Tossed into some pasta with sausage meat, chilli and wine, it makes a savoury bowlful that’s certain to please
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What a pickle: UK gripped by courgette shortageCold and wet weather hits crops in Spain, sending prices soaring and customers bemoaning empty supermarket shelves
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Britain's courgette shortage: have you spotted any of the elusive veg?As Britain struggles through a debilitating lack of courgettes, we want your photos of the lesser-spotted vegetable
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Anna Jones’ colourful Mexican recipes to bring sunshine in winterAnna Jones’ recipes: Mexican food, with its riot of colours and unabashed flavours, is just the thing for a grey January. Tacos piled with roast avocado and charred tomato salsa, or gooey figs and refried pinto beans will chase away the winter blues
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Nigel Slater’s winter root veg recipesWinter is the time to dig deep for root vegetables. Perfect for parsnip and chicken soup, salsify and bacon or a kohlrabi citrus salad
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Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for cooking with capersCapers pack a flavour punch way above their weight, so use them sparingly
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The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ rhubarb recipesForced rhubarb brings a welcome blast of colour to the January table, whether in a zingy pickle to serve with roast meat, cold cuts and cheese, or poached and served with jelly
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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for fish poached in tomato and wineRachel Roddy recipes: Some recipes aren’t an exact science – such as pesce all’acqua pazza, or fish in crazy water – where whole bream is poached in a glistening sauce of extra virgin olive oil, garlic, chilli, and tomatoes and wine
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Give peas a chance: why pea protein is leading the wheyProtein-packed dried and ground yellow split peas are 2017’s first big food trend. Anyone for a piece of pea pizza?
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