This tart will always manage to look beautiful on a Summer table. Taking inspiration from a French recipe where mustard forms a really delicious base for your veg to sit on top of, this makes for a really tasty lunch or add in some boiled new potatoes and salad for dinner. A mix of different tomatoes sitting on top with basil leaves makes it look delicious too!…
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Tapas Time! Roast Pepper Salad
You can use any type of pepper for this dish, but the long skinny, even slightly spicy, ones work really well. If your peppers have very tough skins you could remove them after roasting by putting them in a plastic bag and waiting till they’ve cooled. Then remove the skins – they should come off fairly easily. With fresh, seasonal peppers, this shouldn’t really be necessary. Use good quality olives – it really makes a difference to this dish!…
Flower Salad
There are few things more lovely than edible flowers. They bring so much colour and vibrancy to a dish that it becomes divine to eat! Choose carefully and a flower salad can be really delicious. Use only the freshest and those that you know are definitely edible! …
pea and bean salad
We feel that nothing beats fresh peas and beans from the garden, lightly steamed and straight onto your plate! Here we combine their naturally sweet flavour with the sharpness of lemon and mustard as well as black basil, lemon basil and fresh tarragon. A great salad for lunch time with some bread or another salad dish, or you could serve it as an accompaniment to a main dish at dinner time. …
Stuffed courgettes
This recipe is a standard Summer staple that we couldn’t live without. We used round courgettes in our recipe, but you can use standard courgette shapes for this too. They make a lovely meal served with new potatoes and a hearty green salad. …
Basil Pesto
Nothing says Summer like a bowl of basil pesto to mix in with your pasta, spread on toast or just eat! We love a good bit of zingy tang and this recipe gives plenty. Who says pesto needs parmesan?!…
Pizza!
Pizza, is usually thought of as junk food these days but if you think back in time to when pizza was first made, it was actually pretty healthy. A slab of bread with lots of tasty vegetables on top and a wee bit of cheese – less of the mountains of mozzarella and greasy slick of oil across a thick stodgy base! We’ve gone back to basics here for a gluten free pizza that really does work. It’s very quick to make with rising time not really required. Perfect for a summer picnic!…
broad bean salad
Summer is really here now and we are starting to enjoy more veg from the garden at the Steading. We have just enough broad beans to make this salad so we thought we would share it with you too! Very simple, just a celebration of fresh healthy green stuff – serve along with our lemony zingy pesto dressing. …