Cottage Cooking Club Month of May

We are now officially in our second year of the Cottage Cooking Club; a group of international blogger's cooking together and then posting our experiences along with the Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's cookbook, "River Cottage Veg". Our group is meant to be a project aimed at incorporating more vegetable dishes in our everyday cooking, and is and has been inspired by our dedicated leader Andrea of the The Kitchen Lioness. Every month Andrea picks one recipe from each of the ten chapters. We then pick and choose which one or ones we want to blog about in a single post. Every month is special as each one has delicious and interesting vegetables unique to that season and climate.

The first recipe I prepared was the Cambodian Wedding Day Dip. This can be eaten hot or cold and a great appetizer for a party, serve with pita bread, crackers or veggies. Add rice and you can make it a proper meal. Basically it is sauteed mushrooms, chilies, garlic, curry powder, crunchy peanut butter, coconut milk and a few other accommodating ingredients. I tried to find the origin of this delectable nibble but I was not able to find a thing.

The mushrooms are finely diced, cooked over high heat.

Spices and coconut milk is added and then mixture is reduced down.

You will find yourself going back and forth to this one as it has so many levels of flavor, one of my new favorites to say the least.

The second recipe was the Herby, Peanutty, Noodly Salad. As you can see above this could easily be a main dish. This hits the spot when you’re hungry for a more substantial salad, it has the carbs, the herbs, the greens and like all good salads, a great dressing. Another new favorite to add to my list. Love this cookbook.

Recipes adapted from the River Cottage Veg, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. First recipe; from the chapter "Meze and Tapas" Cambodian Wedding Day Dip" (page 299). Second dish from the chapter "Hearty Salads" Herby, Peanutty, Noodly Salad (page 71).

To see what recipes the other members chose for this month, head over to the LYL post for May 2015 on the CCC website, by clicking here.

Just a quick note, my husband and I just arrived at our home in Oregon for the summer. I will be back to blogging and commenting this week. Thank you for all the heartfelt comments about my mother; they were very much appreciated.