Brussel Tops!

[Crackle]

No mushrooms this time. I was given four pints of Nibley Ale as a free takeaway - I made a rough-n-ready chicken stew with potatoes, chestnuts and beer.

Beer, really. Chicken and maderia or chicken/white wine but I've never used beer, though a chicken casserole needs alchohol. Fascinating.

 

[theclaud]

I found a great cabbage recipe the other week; cut cabbage into wedges, fry in butter and garlic, put in oven dish, pour over some stock (I used bouillon for extra middle-class merits), bake for a bit. Yumtus!

You want a bit of bacon and onion in that.

 

[theclaud]

Beer, really. Chicken and maderia or chicken/white wine but I've never used beer, though a chicken casserole needs alchohol. Fascinating.

I had beer and I had chicken. If you were doing it by design you'd use something slightly less bitter than the Nibley, or use half beer and half stock. It was nice, though, and the chestnuts offset the bitterness.

 

[theclaud]

Kale-better in all ways. Including with venison, and rabbit as well.

I had kale for breakfast

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I thought this thread was going to be about some of this with lemonade added:

 

[Fnaar]

I found a great cabbage recipe the other week; cut cabbage into wedges, fry in butter and garlic, put in oven dish, pour over some stock (I used bouillon for extra middle-class merits), bake for a bit. Yumtus!

How big are your wedges (if you'll pardon my French)? Like a quarter of a cabbage? Or an eighth?
I like the idea, but I'm trying to get a mental picture here

 

[threebikesmcginty]

How big are your wedges (if you'll pardon my French)? Like a quarter of a cabbage? Or an eighth?
I like the idea, but I'm trying to get a mental picture here

I cut it into about 6 or 8, you don't want them too skinny or they fall apart. They're yummy, ignore tc's ridiculous over-speccing.

 

[marknotgeorge]

The only cooked brassica I like is red cabbage, with bacon, apple and onion. Come to think of it, the only raw brassica I like is cabbage. The rest of the mutant varieties can go hang.

 

[Ganymede]

The only cooked brassica I like is red cabbage, with bacon, apple and onion. Come to think of it, the only raw brassica I like is cabbage. The rest of the mutant varieties can go hang.

Watercress? Pak Choi? Turnips?

 

[subaqua]

red cabbage is currently pickling away nicely ( i hope ) in a dark cupboard upstairs

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Kale's pretty rubbish I rec.

 

[marknotgeorge]

Watercress is a brassica? And radishes? Really?

 

[theclaud]

Watercress is a brassica? And radishes? Really?

It's a member of the same family, but not the genus Brassica. It's actually a nasturtium!

 

[theclaud]

After typing that I was wondering how closely related watercress was to the garden nasturtium, which has a somewhat similar flavour. Turns out that the nasturtium is not actually a Nasturtium at all. I hope I'm not boring everyone...

 

[marknotgeorge]

Do you eat all the plants in your garden, or is it only when you've had a few?