Purple Sprouting Broccoli with Walnut Salmon

I don’t like broccoli. Really, I can’t stand it. I’m talking about the common green variety here. When I seriously began to learn about food and its benefits years ago broccoli seemed to be the ONLY vegetable that would be talked about and that’s enough to send me straight back to McDonald’s.

What nobody told me at the time was that there was a very, very short window of time, right about now, when a different variety of broccoli would appear that tasted totally different to normal broccoli and that I would one day end up eating by the spear load.

Purple Sprouting Broccoli. Otherwise known as P.S.B. in our house.

Buy enough for as many people as you want to feed it to
Steam it until it has wilted slightly but not turned in to a dip for chips
Add a knob of butter and some salt
DO NOTHING MORE THAN THIS

As an accompaniment you may want to place salmon fillets in to a baking tray along with a drizzle of olive oil, some baby leeks and a rather haphazard walnut crust.

As the walnuts bake the oil in them is released and further bakes the salmon in the most divine way.

Serve with a portion of brown rice and of course the P.S.B.

You may want to add some soy sauce to your rice, you may not want to.

But I promise you, you’ll eat this supper, push the plate away from you when you’re done and exclaim to anyone who’ll listen “My word that was gooooooddddd. Simple, but soooooo good”

And you’ll be right.

And your body will be singing a happy song and doing a happy dance. Even though I used a knob of butter!

Shhhhhh!

Tomorrow I’ve got something rather exciting to show you. If you’ve been following my ‘Let’s Get Growing 2010′ project you’ll be amazed to see how all my new children are doing. Yep, Broad Beans are my new kids and I love them.

In fact it’s the name I’ve chosen for the twins.

Me – “Come on Broad, come on Bean, it’s time for dinner. This is the last time I’ll call you…..”

Robert the Husband – *drops dead*

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