Veg Rule

August 21st - The magazines were still sitting out and being thumbed through, mostly when I was hungry! But here's another one I tried. Summer Vegetable Stew with Parsley Pesto. I'd never made pesto before and this involved finely chopping parsley and mixing with extra virgin olive oil, grated lemon zest and lemon juice and parmesan.  To be honest I had to play around with the recipe until I got a consistency I though looked OK.  The stew involved gently cooking onion, leek, carrots and garlic in butter then adding white wine and reducing.  Stock was added before adding cannelini beans, quartered little gem lettuces, spring onions and spinach.  The recipe is supposed to have fresh artichokes in it but I have never seen one of these in our Co-op so a few artichoke hearts were added.  Wholesome. Healthy.  And I did not feel so bad having some chocolate for pudding!