We used to buy tons of Bimi R in Portugal. It’s an interesting and flavourful veggie. I once saw it in Lidl AT (!!) but never since.
Bimi® is a vegetable with two passports - Nature's Pride.
I wonder if people are turned off broccoli because it’s normally cooked far too long?
They sell it pretty much everywhere these days.
I’ve seen it regularly in Aldi, coop, Migros and Manor.
I add Maldon sea salt and grate a bit of Parmesan over them before putting in the oven. Got to be one of my favourite things to eat.
Well, technically yes, you should…something to do with how vegetables react to the freezing process. Please don’t tell my domestic sciences teacher from way back in the early 70s but I’m usually way too lazy to actually bother.
From what I remember from Portugal Goose neck barnacles stand out, delicious by the way. and
Francesinha.
Have you tried steaming broccoli
Broccoli also can benefit from roasting…olive oil, Maldon sea salt, a little sprinkle of white wine. Ditto cauliflower.
Little pillows of easy-to-make ricotta, Parmesan, and spinach, bound with an egg and lightly flavoured with shallot–that’s malfatti. They loll around in homemade arrabiata sauce and bake in a hot oven for 30 minutes. Comfort food without the calories!
It may not look like much, but it certainly was tasty. Glass noodles with spicy dressing of toasted sesame oil, lime leaf, shallot, garlic, brown sugar, ponzu, soy, ginger, and lime juice. Top with peas, baby corn, basil, coriander, mint, julienne carrot and cucumber, chopped roasted peanuts, and my favourite Chinese lap cheong (pork sausage with a texture like salami, but slightly sweet and exoticly 5-spiced) sliced paper thin.
Our Austrian (Vienna) roofers put a new roof on This Old House over the past week. Today to celebrate, I made them a rhubarb crumble, redolent of vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. The topping smelled like shortbread–buttery, buttery. I served it to them with softly whipped schlag (36% butterfat cream). In the UK I would have used pouring cream, but I know the Viennese like their schlag! They asked for the recipe. So happy to have a new roof!
This is just tooooo funny! you should turn it to a stand-up commedy speech! We didn’t know of your comic edge @Slammer !
This sounds like something I would have enjoyed A LOT!
Where do you buy things like lap cheong?
I relax just looking at the photos.
Your neighbours are a bit close. But they all got their shutters down? 
Next building is about 10m from my balcony The Sun was a bit strong today and people like to watch TV instead of drinking in the balcony
The result along a Bondola from Sementina (TI)
Tonight I made one of the best salmon dinners I’ve made for ages. It starts with skinning and butterflying two 125g filets of salmon and flattening them gently to an even 1.5 cm. That’s not much salmon, but this recipe really stretches the expensive protein. Blanch 14 spears of asparagus (snapped, Curley!) and ice bath, pat dry. Take a 250g tub of cottage cheese and blitz it smooth with a clove of garlic (gives you around 25g of protein). Wrap it in paper towels until it is firm and rather dry, changing the towels as necessary. Add a teaspoon of lemon zest, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, and 2 tablespoons fresh chopped basil, 2 tablespoons parmesan grated fine. Salt and pepper to taste. Spread it on the salmon filets, lay 3 spears of asparagus on each, and roll up. Saute in butter all over, lay the excess asparagus alongside, and place in a 190C oven for 15 minutes. Take out and pour sauce over, decorate with basil and lemon slices. Sauce is 2 tablespoons butter, 2 tablespoons flour (form roux), add 1 cup stock (veggie or fish), 2 tablespoons lemon juice, 1 teaspoon lemon zest, and Vegeta (I love it!!) to taste. Thin with 1 tablespoon milk if desired. It was absolutely delicious.
There is a wonderful Asian store in several locations in Vorarlberg. I love to shop there…it’s always a disaster! They have absolutely everything you could ever want for Asian cooking, arranged in a huge shop by country. https://www.tingting.at/
That one in Feldkirchen?
Yeah! A short shopping trip there did tend to get expensive.
There is an asian shop in Zurich Oerlikon ( close to Berninaplatz). Their frozen fish / meat – as well as some fresh veggies and dry pantry that you don’t find easily…
In Zurich Wiedikon there are also 2 good asia shops “Lian Hua” and the “New Asia Market” which also has it 
