You go away for a week and let the garden get on with doing what it does best and this is the result!
Anyway when you have a harvest like that a summer minestrone is the order of the day.
Ingredients
Serves 4 for lunch with some soda bread
An assortment of fresh vegetables for example:
- One sweetcorn cob (corn sliced off the cob)
- One courgette (diced)
- Half an onion (diced)
- Two small carrots (diced)
- A handful of runner beans (sliced)
- A handful of very ripe cherry tomatoes and a few green ones (halved)
- A small bunch of chard (stems sliced and leaves chopped)
- 2tsp rapeseed oil
- 1 clove of garlic (crashed)
- 2 Bay leaves
- 1ltr veg or chicken stock
- 1tsp mixed herbs
- Ground black pepper
- Handful of small pasta such as orzo
Heat the oil, fry the onion and garlic till softened.
Add the carrot, beans, chard stems and courgette. Fry for a few minutes then add the bay leaves, herbs and tomatoes and again fry for a few minutes. Add the stock and orzo, simmer until the veg and pasta is coked. Add the chard leaves and simmer for a minute or two more.
Serve with crusty bread.