The tomatoes are ripening – time to take dinner outside
We have just eaten the first outdoor lunch of the year and I feel I have reached some sort of a turning point: that moment in the calendar has arrived when as many meals as possible will be taken in the shade of a tree. The point when my cooking is less about the store cupboard and becomes even more reliant on vegetables.
Right on cue, luminous pink chard arrived in the veg box this week. The leaves, emerald green with a road map of magenta veins, were briefly cooked in as little water as possible then tossed with sherry vinegar and olive oil. We ate them on rafts of toasted ciabatta. The stalks were chopped into small nuggets and fried with celery and parsley – a sort of contemporary mirepoix – to scatter over an open tart of puff pastry and creamed feta. It was a pretty dish that begged to be eaten in the open air.
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