Despite my best intentions, I can't give up my cookbook addiction, especially when there are bargains to be had! I recently acquired Angela Hartnett's Cucina on sale, and am glad I did - it is a gorgeous book with practical recipes, with an Italian slant. The salads in the book are particularly gorgeous - and this from me, a former salad hater and now just a salad "meh" girl!
For a weekend meal, I made Angela's Rib Eye with Tomatoes and Olives, featured in the photo at the top of this post. It was a simple but delicious way to cook steak - I just used porterhouse steak. You have to like olives though for this to work, as the olives are a dominant flavour in this dish.
To accompany the steak, I made Angela's fresh almond, green bean and peach salad, on p170 of Cucina:
Doesn't this look scrumptious, and so summery? It is so simple to make - just boil up 150g of trimmed green beans, drain and cool them, and cut them into pieces ~ 1 inch long (or save yourself some hassle and cut them before boiling them). Put the beans into a large bowl. Cut 4 peaches into 4-6 wedges (I used 2 large peaches, which was plenty), and add the peach wedges to the beans with 75g blanched almonds. Chop up 6 basil leaves and 6 mint leaves and add to the salad just before serving. Toss the salad with a vinaigrette made from 20ml cider vinegar and 100ml olive oil. I had this salad for a couple of days, and it stayed delicious for the entire time.
Enjoy!
7 comments:
Look nice Cakekaw!
Looks great and if a non salad lover liked this recipe I think I would love it!
Wow. Your entire dish looks amazing. I love how you included sweet and savory flavors. Great post!
I love salad, and that does look delicious and summery!
I've always wanted to visit one of her restaurants! The dish looks like it has a bit of everything! :D
Looks yummy and healthy :) I have a serious cookbook addiction too ~ it's worse when you read another language lol you'd wanna get cookbooks in that language too~ I've bought so many sighhh not good :D
I hear you on the cookbook addiction...loud and clear! This meal looks delicious. So pretty in colors, too. I have never had, or even thought of or seen, green beans with peaches like this...I am wishing I could try that so I will mark this one for when these are in season here...it will be fun to try a completely new thing. You and I are so different on the salad deal...I could live on salad and soup totally. Salad and I are BFF (Best Friends Forever). ;-)
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