Frances Bissell
Mediterranean stuffed vegetables
- Credit: Frances Bissell
Spring is well and truly sprung. The white blossom on the Heath has gone, the wild garlic has flowered, the nettles are growing fast, so if you want tender tops to make soup, you d better be quick.
At the Farmers Market piles of root vegetables are giving way to leafy greens, satiny green and white asparagus, bundles of herbs and early strawberries.
May is my favourite month with its Bank Holidays offering long weekends, good company and sometimes fine weather. So in remembrance of those far-off weekends and in the hope of more to come, I have been cooking my favourite spring dishes. Coddled eggs with sobrasada, with English asparagus for dipping. A soft Majorcan pork sausage with a hint of piquancy from pimenton, sobrasada doesn t get the same air-time as nduja, but is a favourite breakfast item in Spain. Both Basco and Brindisa stock it. Scrambled eggs, omelettes, soup, wilted greens, all