
So for one dinner this week, we will be having scrambled eggs, with biscuits, and a side of asparagus. I am really into this idea of Very Simple Eating. I've been reading 'The Kitchen Diaries' by Nigel Slater, and I'm here to say, it has totally changed how I view dinners. And the recipes! I'm going to be buying it after I return it to the library, because I want to make nearly everything in the book, which doesn't usually happen to me with a cookbook. You know, where you want to make EVERYTHING??
I've realized that more than eating food, more than making food, what I really want to do is READ ABOUT FOOD, which is why I think I own so many cookbooks and food memoirs.
I've also been bookmarking pages from Nigel's book 'Ripe', which I already own. I am officially Obsessed with Nigel. He's my new British food writer BFF, surpassing even Nigella (gasp!) and Jamie. Nigel is the man. 'The Kitchen Diaries' is just incredible. I mean, one night he cooks up a bunch of mushrooms in butter, wine and olive oil, and then serves it on toast. It's all too fabulous.
Wonderful pictures and I totally get the love of recipe books! I am at my happiest sat in bed with a cup of tea devouring a cook book or browsing a gorgeous food blog.
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I'm with you Sophie! It's my favorite thing to do on my own :)
DeleteSuch beautiful photos. Those strawberries look delicious. My favourite part of the week is roaming around our local farmers market looking for tasty morsels to buy.
ReplyDeleteThank you Miss Melissa! Love all the Melissa book bloggers I know! I'm regretting that I didn't buy a mini pie. I love pie, and I love mini-food, I'm not sure why I passed it up??
DeleteBeautiful pictures! You make me want to go find a Farmer's Market too! I would like to have a simpler approach to cooking as well. The best meals are often the ones with less ingredients but better quality.
ReplyDeleteI think summer is such a particularly great time to really break out the simple dinners...:)
DeleteOh! I want to go to the market now! We have such fun in the fall when we start running our own booth at the market (not that I get to go and help much more with the kids and all... but I do get there a few times) I think Trapper's family has had a booth at the SL market for nearly 18 years now, it's something crazy like that.
ReplyDeleteLove your photos! They totally capture the feel of being there.
Wow! That's so cool that your husband's family has had such a presence there! And thank you thank you, so glad you liked the pix :)
DeleteI would totally eat mushrooms sauteed in butter, wine, and olive oil, served on toast! And no one else in my family would.
ReplyDeleteI would love to go to the big farmer's markets, but they always involve getting up early. I'm not good at it right now. There are a couple smaller ones, but they don't have a lot of variety.
Pink ladies are my family's favorite.
Strangely, my kid eats mushrooms. Which is funny because mushrooms made me barf when I was little. Literally! One time my mom tried to feed me cream of mushroom soup and it tasted so awful to me that I took 3 bites and then threw it up. I only wanted to eat peanut butter and jelly and THAT'S IT. My kid would prolly want her mushrooms on the side though, not on the toast :)
DeleteWe hit the market we went to around noon, I'm not a fan of early rising either!
YUM. You're making me salivate.
ReplyDeleteI adore mushrooms. Lately I can't stop sauteing them in balsamic vinegar. It's amazing.
Oooooh I'll have to try that PRONTO!
DeleteBeautiful photographs Melissa! I want to go to a farmers market now.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Hamilton! And according to Mr. Nigel Slater, there are some really divine farmer's markets in England....:)
DeleteI have read zero books about the matter and only have personal research to back my point of view, but I am 100% in support of simple dinners!!! (I should also mention I'm really lazy when it comes to making dinner, especially in the summer when it's too hot to cook!)
ReplyDeleteI think this summer, I'm going to be enlisting Mr. Andrew's help quite a bit more and utilize our grill....:)
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