3 B salad - Board Beans, beetroot & bean shoots

Board beans are the winter plant. It is very easy to take care, basically you dont have to do anything.

This winter is very wet and cold. The fungal totally destoryed our plants.

Luckily, we still have 2 full buckets, better than nothing.  

I used fresh beetroot, just boiled it with some sugar.

The fresh beetroot is more natural favor and not as sweet as the can one.

When the beetroots are ready, mixed it with board beans & bean shoots,

 then add some olive oil and salt. Done !

Chestnut 爆粟子

又係粟子的季節, 原來係意大利有chestnut festival

http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy-featured/chestnut-festivals-october

每次奶奶食粟子都會提起粟子節, 雖然她沒有提及什麼故事, 由她滿足的微笑, 我相信她腦子中是充滿了許多的回憶.

 這兒街上係無炒粟子買的, 就算有得買都只是燒的. 街市可以買到通常都係放在BBQ 上燒, 我就未食過, 但人家話比較乾.

我吾炒也吾燒, 係爆.

首先我洗下Ｄ粟子, 放Ｄ水和粟子一齊煲, 大約水滚, 我倒出D粟子, 用刀仔在每一個粟子切一口, 要切破粟殼, 放回煲中,不用放水在煲裏, 開火, 等Ｄ粟子殼燒焦, 就可以關火.




 

記得要放煲蓋, 如果吾係就爆到周廚房都係粟子.就算關了火最好用筷子架問煲蓋等半小時先食.


Ｄ個做法, 粟子不太乾身而外殼和香味好似炒粟子.

Mini Guava 蕃石榴

細個的時候好鍾意蕃石榴的香味. 好耐都沒有聞過.甚至有點忘記了.

有時候我會去Ｄ唐人店買包維他石榴汁去回味–下.

前星期鄰居屋前的兩棵小樹掛滿果子有紅有黃, 鄰居吾知道是什麽果子但是可以吃.

她叫我試試. 原來係蕃石榴, 不過佢就係細種. 香味不大但味道是一樣.
鄰居知道我鐘意, 除了給我一大包之外, 她還給我自已做的蕃石榴果醬.
沒有自家做的麵包, 又怎配得上那些果醬,而等下先食得.

鄰居是葡萄牙人, 什麽都食同中國人沒大分別, 上次還請我食豬耳, 真係難得.

Long zucchini ( 很長的節瓜)

It is a kind of Italian zucchini. I have try to do some search but exactly name still can't find it.

Even it is long (more than 1 meter) but doesn't taste old or tough.

And the skin has a very soft hair, very interesting. (like 節瓜)

We also cook the young leaves and mix with small pasta like a soup.

Italian way - cook with tomato as usual with some herbs !

Artichoke

Italian love artichoke, stuff it with cheese and breadcrumbs to steam it. It does take a lot of time to do it. My mum has told me artichoke is very good for health, especially for our liver. So the more time-saving recipe is boiling it with some chickpeas and beans. Then we can enjoy this plant in a healthy way with olive oil and balsamic vinegar and chickpeas soup.


I never saw artichoke plant. Fortunately, my mother-in-law has put 1 in the garden and produce 1 artichoke per year. After 15 years +, finally it wakes up. This year, we have 15 artichokes, it seems more to come, very excited.


Nothing happen

First artichoke is coming!!

This week --

 Beautiful purple color. This is a wild plant which has a horns.