I've been invited to take part in the Happy Feaster Blog Tour by Ladybird Books and The Happy Foodie. We have been asked to take storytelling from the page to the kitchen by creating a Spring recipe inspired by the Tales of Peter Rabbit! I've decided to create a green bean and radish salad with my little bunnies (Alex 5 and Sam 2).
For more Spring recipes, inspired by Peter Rabbit and friends, why not head over to The Happy Foodie and discover how celebrity chefs and their children are joining in!
As part of this campaign we were given 3 brilliant Peter rabbit books to inspire our ingredients or ideas behind our recipe.
Sam and Alex both like this selection of short board books, with brief short stories of the main characters in the Peter Rabbit tales. we love that the reverse of all the books create an image if put in the correct order-we only discovered this a few days after we had first read them!
I love how this is a great decoration/backdrop as well as a short story too.
A special edition for Penguin's 80th anniversary. A really lovely story-we didn't have any Peter Rabbit stories beforehand (I must ask Mum if she kept my collection I had as as a child!) and Alex and Sam have both sat down and listened nicely to the story.
It was the original Peter Rabbit tale where we got our recipe inspiration from:
Peter Rabbit is partial to pinching some of Mr McGregor's radishes after all!
"First he ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes"
Green bean and radish warm salad
A small bag of green beans
1 small red onion (diced finely)
2 cloves of garlic (diced finely)
1 tsp of grainy mustard
1 tbsp olive oil
Juice of 1/2 a lemon
salt and pepper to taste
A small handful of radishes
Method:
-Chop the ends off the green beans and put on to boil for 4-5 minutes.
-Slice the other vegetables finely.
-In another pan sweat the onions and garlic for a few minutes, meanwhile mix the oil, mustard, and lemon juice in a small jug, season to taste.
-Add the onions and garlic to the oil dressing.
-Drain the beans and mix with the radishes, toss with the dressing.
-Enjoy!
This dish will be the perfect side dish to barbecues, we enjoyed it last night with chicken and sautéed potatoes.
If you've enjoyed this then why not stop by Over 40 and a mum to one tomorrow to check out what delicious Easter ideas she has for enjoying with your families.
Also follow the hashtag #tastytales to see what other people and bloggers have been inspired to make.
Well with that in mind we a quick batch of biscuits-with cinnamon cranberries for the fly upon his nose! I don't think the people at Biscuiteers have got anything to worry about as it's not a patch on the surprise Peter Rabbit biscuit we received-we haven't had the heart to eat it yet as it just feels wrong as it looks so good!
No comments:
Post a Comment
Thanks for taking the time to comment :)