Lottie Lomme
Healthy eating is not something that many people object to. But personally I don't mind diet books. Often these seem to be a bit of weak infusion of tasty dishes or dishes where you already know in advance that you will still be hungry after the meal. Salads, well. A vegetarian cookbook or a cookbook with vegetables in the lead role is always a better approach. I am what they are in Italy buona forchetta, calling a 'good fork'. Someone who likes a tasty snack and who is not stingy with bragging rights. The cookbook The Silver Spoon Cooking School Vegetables so it seems appropriate to me.
The Silver Spoon: the cookbook for Italian food
The Silver Spoon was already the cookbook for Italian food. The cooking bible. The makers of that book have moved on and have now released a series. Pizza, Dolci en Pasta previously published by Uitgeverij Unieboek Het Spectrum.
well be vegetables perhaps not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Italian cuisine. Most of us will think of pasta en Team Building. I also like to make Italian cakes and aperitifs. But the Italian second (the main course), that always bothered me a bit when I wanted to make that in the Netherlands.
Reduce with meat
Pasta is an appetizer in Italy and the main course usually consists of a piece of meat or fish with some side dishes. I'm not a big fan of meat dishes myself and consider myself a flexitarian. I try to cut down on meat. This book is a godsend for people like me. Tasty side dishes but also dishes that can serve as a complete meal in the Netherlands. Such as savory pies and casseroles.
The book is nicely divided into the following chapters: steam, cooking, stew, baking/frying, roasting and the oven. I am an oven freak myself, so I immediately know where to look. Interesting dishes with fennel, turnip greens, red radish (red chicory) zucchini, artichoke, eggplant. The classic Italian vegetables.
Traditional vegetable dishes
It also contains a number of traditional vegetable dishes: the stuffed zucchini, caponata and the melanzana parmigiana. Those are really dishes that I like to see how this cookbook prepares, because everyone has their own version of it. For the layman in the field of Italian cuisine, it is very good that these dishes are included. They are not classics for nothing.
Anyone can cook with The Silver Spoon!
At home I already made the soup of green asparagus and the stuffed courgettes from the oven. And what a feast we have had! What strikes me is that little use is made of herbs. Little rosemary, sage and thyme. The instructions and recipes are very simple. Everyone can cook with The Silver Spoon Cooking School Vegetables there. And healthy too!
The Silver Spoon Cooking School
By: Italian cooking school (translated by Jacques Meerman)
176 pp.
price: €15
Union book Het Spectrum, July 2016
ISBN: 9789000350483
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