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Read Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter

Read Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter by Nigel Slater

From the start of autumn, we crave food that nourishes, food that sets us up for going out in the cold and wet. Greenfeast has over 110 gently sustaining recipes from milk, mushrooms and rice – as comforting as a cashmere blanket – big soups like tahini, sesame and butternut and crumbles made with leeks, tomato and pecorino. With puddings like ginger cake, cardamom and maple syrup, these spirit-lifting recipes are a varied and glorious celebration of simple, plant-based cooking.

I flagged a huge number of recipes — so far I have cooked three, which were all relatively tasty (blue cheese and mushrooms on english muffin, cheesy leeks on toast, and roasted carrots with paneer). This has a ton of vegetarian dishes, but many are not easily vegan-adaptable, relying on dairy. Appropriately for winter, many recipes seem hearty and warming.

I borrowed this from the library but plan to add it to my collection.

The book is smaller than most cookbooks, which works out OK since the recipes are not too long, many a single page.

This book takes itself seriously as a work of art, with the contributing artist having both an introduction and concluding essay. I thought it was cool, honestly.

One poor choice, I think, is that the recipes are labeled by ingredient instead of being named for what it is that it’s making.

spread from cookbook showing half-page recipe for "mushrooms, blue cheese, english muffins" with photo
“mushrooms, blue cheese, english muffins”
sauteed mushrooms on toasted English muffins with sliced apple
mushrooms with blue cheese on toast — I’d do more mushrooms next time, the blue cheese was pretty strong
gross looking yellow goo on english muffins with sliced apples
cheesy leeks on toast (“leeks, caerphilly, crumpets” iirc) — fortunately this tasted better than it looked — I didn’t have caerphilly cheese so I used cheddar — quite a potent flavor, I definitely needed the apple’s brightness as balance — my husband had the leftovers on baked potato which I expect might be even better than toast
a plate with roasted carrots and parsnips topped with crumbled paneer beside black lentils and some torn flatbread
spiced roasted carrots and parsnips — recipe worth it for the veg alone, the paneer itself has little flavor, I think it ought to have been seasoned — I’d be sad if that alone were my dinner but with lentils and flatbread it was quite satisfying if a tad dry

By Tracy Durnell

Writer and designer in the Seattle area. Reach me at tracy.durnell@gmail.com. She/her.

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