Gilak, or Persian Perfection!
This week saw my dear friend E's birthday and to celebrate this…
Jerk Cook Out, Brockwell Park
I have just returned from the outdoor food event of the year…
Etta’s Seafood Kitchen, Brixton
Times are a-changing for the 1930s covered market in Brixton…

Autumn Sesame Slaw
/in Eating in, experimental, Good value, Ingredients, Recipes, Savoury, Seasonal, Simple/by Miss SouthFor some reason the word ‘slaw‘ seems to enrage people who demand to know when we stopped just saying ‘coleslaw’ and muttering about hipsters. I, for one, welcome the arrival of slaw. It tends to mean freshly prepared vegetables filled with colour and flavour instead of that limp mayonnaise-sodden white and orange woodchip style salad of the 80s and 90s. If hipsters have made that occurrence less likely, then I’m all for it.
This recipe is definitely a slaw. There’s no cabbage in it so it can’t be coleslaw by that token. It’s a bright mix of kohlrabi, beetroot, carrot and apple, packed with flavour and a colour reminiscent of soon to be falling leaves. Lightly tossed in tahini and yoghurt and scattered with sesame seeds, we ate a batch of it in a friend’s garden on the last summer night of the season and then I tucked into more on the first cool wet day we’ve had. It worked perfectly for both.
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