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Kohlrabi and spinach gratin – June IHCC Potluck!

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I try to support our local producers. As often I can I buy local fruit, vegetables, bread, cheese, meat and more at The Food Assembly 21.12.2024 ** which started in January this year. It still offers a small selection of vegetable, but I accept the challenge to cook with this offer. The products

Kohlrabi and spinach gratin ingredients

I decided to prepare a

Kohlrabi and spinach gratin

Kohlrabi and spinach gratin-1

for the June Potluck! at IHCC from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. He says kohlrabi isn’t a looker, but it’s the taste that counts. He is right the gratin was delicious.

Kohlrabi and spinach gratin

Yield: 2 servings as a main course

Kohlrabi and spinach gratin-2

If your kohlrabi still has its green leaves attached, combine them with the spinach in this tasty kohlrabi and spinach gratin.

Ingredients:

  • ½ tbsp sunflower oil
  • 1 knob butter, plus a little more for greasing the dish
  • 1 medium onion; about 300 grams, halved and finely sliced
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 250 grams kohlrabi, peeled and cut into 3mm thick rounds
  • 125 grams potatoes, peeled and cut into 3mm rounds
  • 1 tsp thyme leaves, chopped
  • 100 ml double cream
  • 100 ml water, chicken or vegetable stock
  • 1 big handful baby spinach, or spinach mixed with kohlrabi leaves
  • 1 tbsp parsley, chopped

TOPPING

  • 15 grams fresh breadcrumbs
  • 15 grams butter, melted
  • 25 grams cheddar or hard goat’s cheese, grated

SOURCE

modified from inspired by:
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in the Guardian

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 190 °C/375 °F/gas mark 5. Place a medium-sized frying pan over a medium heat. Add the oil and butter, wait until it foams, then add the sliced onion and a pinch of salt, and sauté for 12 minutes, until soft and starting to take on a little colour.
  2. Throw in the kohlrabi, potatoes and thyme, and season generously with salt and pepper. Cook, tossing the mixture occasionally, for another five minutes.
  3. Pour over the cream and stock, simmer gently until the liquid is reduced by half, stir in the spinach and parsley, then place in a lightly buttered gratin dish, about 20 cm x 15 cm x 7cm in size, levelling it out with a spatula as you go. Place the gratin dish on a baking tray.
  4. Blitz together the breadcrumbs, butter and cheese in a blender, and sprinkle over the top of the filling. Bake the gratin in a hot oven for about 35-40 minutes, until all golden and bubbling. Serve Kohlrabi and spinach gratin

total time: 1 hour
preparation time: 10 minutes
cooking/baking time: 15 minutes + 35 minutes

 
 
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April Potluck Collage
 
 
 
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Chilled cucumber and almond soup

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River Cottage

27. Mai 2017 The weather turned out perfectly. River Cottage is looking beautiful today for our fair visitors. #rivercottagefair 26.06.2024 **

We have the same nice weather in Northern Germany

Garten im Sonnenschein

and I can Escape To River Cottage! with the I Heart Cooking Clubs cooking any of Hugh’s dishes from the River Cottage cookbooks. Because of the summer temperatures outside I opted for the

Chilled cucumber and almond soup

Chilled cucumber and almond soup (1)

Delicious and really refreshing.

Chilled cucumber and almond soup

Yield: Serves 4

Chilled cucumber and almond soup (2)

One instance where chilling cukes is a good idea. Loosely based on the Spanish ajo blanco, this chilled cucumber and almond soup is rich and garlicky, but refreshing.

Ingredients:

  • 150 grams blanched almonds
  • 50 grams slightly stale white bread, crusts removed
  • 300 – 400 grams cucumber
  • 1 large garlic clove, peeled and halved
  • 100 ml extra virgin olive oil, plus extra to serve
  • 1–2 tablespoons sherry vinegar or balsamic vinegar
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • Handful of flaked almonds, toasted, to finish

SOURCE

978-1408869253 *

modified from inspired by:
River Cottage Love Your Leftovers:
Recipes for the Resourceful Cook *
ISBN: 978-1408869253
also found at
www.hubbub.org.uk 18.08.2023 **

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/Fan 160°C/Gas 4
  2. Put the almonds on a baking tray and toast them in the oven for 5–8 minutes until fragrant and lightly golden brown – start checking on them after 5 minutes as they can scorch quickly. Spread them out on a cold plate to cool completely, then tip into a food processor and pulse them until quite fine but not oily.2
  3. Tear the bread into chunks and soak in cold water to cover for a couple of minutes. Squeeze out the excess water and add the bread to the almonds in the food processor.
  4. Cut off a 10 cm piece of cucumber and set aside. Peel the rest of the cucumber (use the peel to infuse a jug of water if you like, page 158). Halve the cucumber lengthways and scoop out the seeds with a teaspoon, then chop the flesh roughly. Add to the food processor.
  5. Add the garlic, olive oil, 1tablespoon vinegar, ¼ teaspoon salt and some pepper. Blend until smooth, adding a splash of cold water to thin a little if you like, but it’s best kept pretty thick.
  6. Transfer the soup to a bowl or jug, cover and refrigerate for several hours to chill thoroughly. When ready to serve, taste the soup and add more salt or vinegar if it needs it. Cut the reserved cucumber into julienne strips.
  7. Divide the soup between chilled bowls. Add a trickle of olive oil and finish chilled cucumber and almond soupwith the cucumber julienne and toasted almonds, if using.

Tips and swaps:
Add salad leaves: If you have any slightly tired lettuce, rocket or watercress, you can toss the leaves into the soup before blitzing – simply tear off and discard the worst bits first.

Finish with grapes: Float a handful of seedless green grapes on each portion instead of the toasted almonds.

total time: 3 – 4 hours (chilling)
preparation time: 15 minutes

 
 
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Escape To River Cottage!
 
 
 
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** 18.08.2023 https://www.hubbub.org.uk/chilled-cucumber-and-almond-soup no longer available
** 26.06.2024 https://www.instagram.com/p/BUmTE7olIfc/ no longer available

King Trumpet Burger

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This week the I♥CC members make any Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall recipe that could be found in a pub. I think a

King Trumpet Burger

King Trumpet Burger

is pub food at its best and goes well with a beer. I wanted to use portobello mushrooms for this recipe 12.10.2024 ** because finding a puffball is impossible for me. Unfortunately my favourite supermarket offered no portobellos, so I used King Trumpet instead

King Trumpet Burger

Yield: 2 servings

King Trumpet Burger

An incredibly satisfying bit of fast food.

Ingredients:

  • 1 tbsp oil or lard
  • 4 rashers streaky bacon
  • 4 slices puffball (field mushroom or other), skin removed and cut into slices about 2cm thick, trimmed to roughly the same size as the baps
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 good soft baps
  • A few salad leaves – dressed, if you like, with a little vinaigrette

VINAIGRETTE

  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp wine, sherry or cider vinegar
  • pepper
  • a pinch of sugar

SOURCE

978-0747589327*

inspired by:
Mushrooms: River Cottage Handbook No.1
(River Cottage Handbooks) *
ISBN: 978-0747589327
also found at River Cottage 12.10.2024 **

Instructions

  1. Put a frying pan over a medium heat, add the fat, then add the bacon and cook until it is as crisp as you like it. Remove the bacon and keep it warm.
  2. Add the slices of puffball then turn them over immediately, to stop the first side absorbing all the fat, and fry for about 3 minutes, until golden. Flip them over again and fry the other side for the same amount of time. Season the puffball.
  3. Cut open the baps, add two slices of bacon to each, then some of the dressed leaves, then a couple of slices of puffball or mushroom of your choice. Close the baps and serve King Trumpet Burger straight away.

total time: 15 minutes
preparation time: 10 minutes
cooking/baking time: 5 minutes

 
 
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Pub Grub!
 
 
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** 12.10.2024 https://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/the-puffburger no longer available