Where has June
already gone? This summer is rushing by again and quite frankly the
weather could be better over here. However there's a positive side to
that too, as I can share one more Eat Your Greens round up with you.
In the beginning of this month I called for Eat Your Greens
entries and got several lovely summer recipes. Just look at the
variety in the green collage above, so vibrant! Here are the June
recipes.
Janet
from The Taste Space shared
with us a Three-Bean Salad with Asparagus and Coconut Dressing. It's a very wholesome
and filling salad containing steamed asparagus, green beans, yellow
beans, butter beans and green peas, served with a fragrant coconut
dressing. It sounds great and so healthy! The recipe is originally
from from Allison Day’s cookbook Whole Bowls.
Helen
from Roast Chicken and a Country Walk made
a Grilled Sweetcorn, Samphire and Avocado Salad.
She grilled the corn cobs and combined them with lettuce, samphire
and avocado and many other good ingredients to make a vibrant looking
summer salad. I really like the touch of samphire in this and do
agree that fresh sweetcorn is so much better in comparison with
tinned one.
Laura
from Touch Wood cooked
a dish from her home country Macedonia, Spanakopita.
Spanakopita is a very tasty filo pastry dish made with spinach and
feta cheese. Laura also added spring onions for some extra greens. I
wouldn't mind eating these anytime!
Johanna
from Green Gourmet Giraffe posted
a Vegan lasagne with cauliflower, hummus and tofu "ricotta". Now this
is a different kind and intriguing vegan lasagne adapted from a
recipe in the Taste Space. It contains baby spinach as the greens and
the special bit is the vegan ricotta made from cauliflower, tofu,
hummus and seasoning. This recipe sounds very interesting and I
really want to try it, as it's so different to my regular veggie
lasagnes.
Another
vegan dish comes from Shaheen, my Eat Your Greens co-host, from
Allotment 2 Kitchen.
She shared a recipe for a Miso Bowl with Sea Vegetables, Asparagus, Edamame and Soya Beans.
It's a miso soup full of greens, like asparagus, edamame beans,
spring onions and coriander, something I've been wanting to make for
a long time. Maybe I'll now have enough inspiration after seeing
Shaheen's wonderful post.
Helen from Family
Friends Food prepared Asparagus carbonara with sun dried tomatoes. Asparagus is also the main star of this savoury pasta
dish. It's made in the fashion of a vegetarian pasta carbonara
combining asparagus and sun dried tomatoes. I would happily eat a
plate full of this.
Corina from
Searching for Spice shared with us a Roasted butternut squash salad. I really adore roasted squashes, as they make a
salad so filling and tasty. The squash in the combination with pecan
nuts and feta on a bed of greens sounds just great.
Another
salad entry comes from Lisa from Food and Spice.
She posted this Dressed up kale salad,
which is adjusted from Green Gourmet Giraffe's recipe. The salad is
full of kale with a tahini, lemon and maple syrup dressing. This is a
very healthy and green dish.
My
own Eat Your Greens post was Swiss chard bubble and squeak.
The recipe and inspiration are by Nigel Slater, although I changed
the dish a bit from his recipe, for example by using swiss chard
instead of cabbage. Anyway I thought that it was a very nice recipe
to use summer greens and even left-overs, if you like.
So
these were all June contributions. Thank you so much again everyone
for participating and reading. I am now passing the hosting back to
Shaheen for July 2016. Keep sharing those beautiful recipes!
Your
VegHog
