Sausages, beans, soups – Nigel Slater’s robust autumn recipes
The season of ‘big cooking’ means taking your time in the kitchen over mushroom bourguignon, braised tomatoes, and other gentle simmers
The changing season brings with it a need for more robust cooking. In come the bags of golden-skinned onions, the woody-stemmed herbs and the root vegetables. The fat carrots and mushrooms, the beans and sticky rice and full-bodied soups. The season turned rather quickly this year: one minute it was all melons and tomatoes, the next I was rummaging for the cast-iron casserole.
Big cooking, by which I mean those recipes that take a little longer to cook and tend to come to the table with a ladle, has been the order of the day in this kitchen for a few weeks now. The season kicked off with a tray of late tomatoes, baked with shallots until their skins had blackened here and there, then served with a thick tahini sauce. By the time the autumn rains got stuck in I was simmering mushrooms with thyme, onions and red wine, and serving broccoli with a pungent sauce and sticky rice.
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