This quick and easy recipe with flash-sautéed cherry tomatoes and garlic scapes makes the most delicious and versatile side dish.
Tag: Side dish
How to cook quinoaGet the perfect flavor and texture from your quinoa, every time
Quinoa is a super food! It is a complete protein with an abundance of Lysine. It’s also packed with essential minerals such as manganese, magnesium, iron, copper and phosphorous. Viviane Bauquet Farre shares her recipe for how to cook quinoa the perfect way with step-by-step photos and instructions. The recipe also shows you how to rinse the bitter and slightly toxic saponin that naturally coats the seeds before cooking it.
Sautéed haricots verts with baby red potatoes and lemon zest
A simple yet incredibly delicious side dish: Sautéed haricots verts (French green beans) with baby red potatoes and lemon zest. Viviane even made a video of it to show you how to blanch the beans so they are still crispy and how to sauté the potatoes until perfectly golden-brown. A versatile side dish that everyone loves.
Fresh peas with basil and mint
One of my favorite childhood activities was to shell fresh peas, sitting at my grandmother’s kitchen table. The bigger the pile, the happier I was because I’d devised a little reward system: for every ten pea pods I’d shell, I’d eat the content of the next one!