I make no New Year’s resolutions but post-Christmas ‘blow-out’ is as good a time as any for a little discipline in the kitchen. My battered second-hand copy of *It’s Raining Plums* has inspired a little 2013 project. How difficult can it be to feed a family of five on seasonal food for a year? Take three children, a father with *particular* culinary tastes and an experimental mother. Game on!
My monthly column for Local Morsels this year will follow my family’s attempts to eat seasonally and I shall be blogging about it. This is where you all come in. In the best panto tradition – audience participation is the name of the game. Help me, people! Ingenious ways to feed your children Jerusalem artichokes? What to do with Seville oranges when you live with a family of marmalade-haters? Anyone?
Every month I will be sharing my successes and failures, seasonal recipes-both old favourites and new discoveries and I’d like you to do the same. Send me your tips and recipes via Twiiter, this blog or email cally@countrygate.co.uk and I’ll publish them on the blog, tweet about them, mention them in my column and may even choose a monthly prizewinner.
January stars are Seville oranges, leeks, parsnips, celeriac and Jerusalem artichokes. It’s over to you.
Jerusalem artichokes mmmm – soup ( lovely and creamy), boiled and then mashed, roasted. But celeriac soup is my favourite, River Cottage has an amazing recipe x
Thanks Fran. Will give it a go.
It’s Raining Plums has been one of my Salad Challenge discoveries, thanks to my appeal for Glut Buster cucumber recipes earlier this year
Jamie Oliver has a fab recipe for Spicy Parsnip soup – I’ve substituted leek tops for the recipe’s onion, which works well. Shout if you want the link to my blogged adapted recipe… there’s further adaptation BTW.
Oh yes please. My default parsnip soup recipe is an adapted Cranks parsnip and apple. Time to ring the changes.
I love that parsnip and apple recipe too. This one has ginger, which peps up winter no end
http://vegplotting.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/spicy-parsnip-soup-seasonal-recipe.html
If your family likes roasted vegetables, sneak in some smaller (or halved) jerusalem artichokes – it’s a really nice way of cooking them, and they may not notice until it’s too late!
Somewhere I have a recipe for beef stew with seville oranges – I remember it was delicious.