Comments on: Broad beans, green garlic & mint bruschetta

By: My Veg Plot » Summer madness

My Veg Plot » Summer madness — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:53:15 +0000

[...] that definitely speaks to the start of summer is Eat Like a Girl’s broad bean bruschetta broad bean bruschetta. Unfortunately we definitely were not as regimented with our watering as we should of been and our [...]

By: italianhandful

italianhandful — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:32:57 +0000

I want to try this one and love your approach to recipes and the whole format and style of your blog.

By: Some Recipes for Summer from the Archives « eat like a girl

Some Recipes for Summer from the Archives « eat like a girl — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:53:46 +0000

[...] Broad beans, green garlic & mint bruschetta [...]

By: Niamh

Niamh — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:16:44 +0000

Foodieguide – Lovely, enjoy!

By: foodieguide

foodieguide — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:50:37 +0000

Definitely! I’ll try this instead! I think I’ll have to go and knock on the neighbour’s door soon…

By: Niamh

Niamh — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:19:09 +0000

Jeanne – so it is! I must have been influenced by it :-)

Foodieguide – oh no! Save them next time :-)

By: foodieguide

foodieguide — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:29:22 +0000

Lovely! We were given some fresh broad beans by our neighbour today, and husband ruined them by overcooking them. I wish I’d had this instead!

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:08:47 +0000

LOL – your pic is almost a carbon copy of my version that I made last year http://www.cooksister.com/2007/07/broad-bean-cros.html

Great minds really do think alike :)

By: Niamh

Niamh — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:07:56 +0000

Katie – thanks! It’s a really ncie market although the garlic farm aren’t there normally. Worth going for the other stalls though! The garlic farm are at Borough semi regularly, althoguh with no definite schedule unfortunately. I’ll be keeping my eye out for them. Loving the green garlic and have an enormous elephant garlic to play with yet!

Helen – thansk! It is the same thing. Utterly delicious. How did you have yours?

Jo D – that sounds fantastic! re you affiliated with the Slow Food Movement? Sounds right up their street.

Italian Foodie – lol! Can’t you get fresh broad beans at home (notice you’re in Ireland :-) That’s a shame! I am planting beans this weekend so that I can reap in September. Might be worth doing there. they practically grow themselves if you can cope with the slugs.

Ginger – I am 50/50, although I have had so much asparagus lately, I am ready for the season to end. Green garlic is the fresh undried version, so moist and delicious. I would highly recommend it. Enjoy!

By: Ginger

Ginger — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:35:29 +0000

I think I’m loving broad beans even more than asparagus this year, we’ve definitely been cooking with them more anyway. I’m planning on doing something with pasta this evening but I loved the sound of this.

I’ve never heard of green garlic either but I don’t live too far away from Marylebone farmer’s market so may try to get there this weekend.

By: italian foodie

italian foodie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:02:24 +0000

Well I’m an even worse foodie as I’ve never even heard of green garlic:) This looks delicious, I love the ingredients and really easy to do, now if only I could find fresh broad beans.

By: Jo D

Jo D — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:26:33 +0000

If you are going to Marylebone Farmers market, or the one in islington – look out soon for Rent a Cherry Tree – brilliant idea where you can rent a tree (rather self-explanatory) and then go and PYO your own cherries just like in the good old days. All part of the Cherryaid campaign saving the British cherry.

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:18:10 +0000

This looks deliciously fresh. I had some wet garlic the other day – I think it is the same thing?

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:40:40 +0000

This looks so lovely! I keep meaning to go to the farmers market in Marylebone – this makes me want to go even more!

By: Niamh

Niamh — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:35:12 +0000

Thanks Jo! I will post more :-)
I am mainly familiar with them in salads or soups.
Incidentally, as a child I grew them! So easy and great fun.

lavenderbakery – I have been toying with a new pasta dish and was thinking of adding some anchovies to the list above, maybe an egg yolk too for creaminess. Well worth the podding too, visually stimulating as well as wonderful flavour.

By: lavenderbakery

lavenderbakery — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:20:19 +0000

That is summer in a dish – yum! Broad beans/mint/garlic and lemon is also a great addition to pasta. That green colour is so wonderful, well worth all the podding!

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:26:28 +0000

Thanks – and more please.

I have always like broad beans but they were always a companion for roast beef, mixed with sweetcorn in succotash and even eaten very young chopped small in the pod like old fashioned green beans.

I knew to the idea of salads with broad beans and still trying to reconcile salad with the taste of a slightly grey bean in a slighlty fatty beef gravy.

So more please. (PS if you are introducing kids to gardening, plant broad beans – they grow like topsy.)