kthread cooks: easy greens
My good friend Antony, who lives in Sydney, just reminded me of this great clip with New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo.
My favorite part is the supermarché aisle sequence, and it strikes me that many of my beautiful American readers may be in vacation towns with less stellar grocery options this summer.
This recipe is a simplified version of this 2003 Food and Wine riff on a pea salad. I find when I travel, especially in the summer, I crave a big plate of green that only requires a few minutes in a pan.
My version is ready in five minutes, can be made with supermarket, supermarché, or farmers’ market peas. Remember green + pink + white (veg + delicious + dairy). It’s all in the video (the HD version is here).
Recipe: 1 cup of snow or sugar snap peas in a pan over med-high with 1/2 cup of water, let the water cook out (skip this if the peas look great), add 2 tbsp oil, stir rapidly for 1 min. Put peas in bowl or on plate. Add 1 slice of some sort of bacon diced to pan, crisp, add 1 scallion chopped and 1 minced clove garlic, cook 20 sec. Take off heat, add peas back in. Squeeze lemon over (if you have), salt, plate. Dot top with goat cheese or grate parmesan over. Eat hot, warm, cold. It’s nice with a poached egg on top.
I think Rhymenocerous & Hiphopopotamus would like this—I can see them making it at the supermarché salad bar (you can eat sugar snaps and snow peas raw). This dish is beautiful, and greens are what you want to eat…
p.s. For my vegetarian friends using soy bacon and the like: add a little balsamic vinegar or tamari to the pan as you toss together for extra flavor–
reading recommendation: In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
listening recommendation: “It’s Not Easy Being Green,” Kermit
easy greens wallpaper on Flickr
drink pairing: Sauvignon Blanc
salt recommendation: whatever’s available
What do you cook when you’re craving green food?
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Posted Sunday, August 17th, 2008, 8:54 pm | Filed in Food, Travel, Video. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
August 18th, 2008 at 8:32 am
And here I was thinking that you preferred Australians to New Zealanders. We’re very competitive with our near cousins (like the Canada/US thang.)
That’s a beautiful dress, making a stunning meal, that is surely something to be shared.
August 18th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I would adore those two New Zealanders wherever they claimed to be from, just as I have some Australian friends I hope to keep up with wherever they live.
And thanks, I like this dress too–it’s vintage Hawaiian (also a lovely area with lovely people).
Really like the idea of a global meal of greens, A; we’ll have to make this when you visit later this year—