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Celeriac, Potato and Kale Bake

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It’s been a little while since our last blog post – a few things have been in the pipe line but bigger things are on there way. We promise!!

This recipe is a winter warmer – relatively healthy comfort food to keep you going in the series of cold snaps we have had throughout the last few weeks to make up for what has been a generally warm winter so far. All vegetarian, filling, and comforting with the satisfying blend of root veg and (occasionally much maligned) kale to add colour – you can almost feel the newly restored warmth coming of you already. Enjoy!

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Ingredients:

Sauce:

300 ml white wine

300 ml stock

10 g corn flour

160 g cheddar cheese + extra for topping

salt and pepper to season

 

Bake:

1 celeriac

3 potatoes

150g kale

 

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.

Chop the celeriac into chunks of about 1.5 cm. Once chopped, place in a large saucepan with cold water and bring to the boil. In the meantime chop the potatoes into similar size chunks. After the celeriac has cooked for 5 minutes, add the potatoes to the boiling water. Cook for 10 minutes before placing the kale on top of the saucepan in a colander and steam for 5 minutes or until all the vegetables are cooked. Place in a oven proof dish and leave while you prepare the sauce.

For the sauce, reduce the wine to about a tenth of the quantity in a small pan. Add the stock to the reduction and heat through. Taking a few tablespoonfuls of the stock mixture and add it to the corn flour, mixing the two together to create a smooth paste. Once thoroughly combined, add to the rest of the stock mixture and stir. Add the cheese and stir until it is melted.

Once the sauce is fully combined, pour over the celeriac, potatoes and kale. Grate cheese over the top of the dish and bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Serve with a few grinds of black pepper fresh from the oven.

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INTRODUCTION

Beginnings

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Hello and welcome to howellandharte.com, a new blog from Will Howell and Conor Harte. We live and cook in Clapham, London, and our main goal is to teach others how to eat in a way that is affordable and healthy but, above all, tasty.

Some might ask how this blog is going to differ from anything else that is out there on the endless oceans of the world wide web in a market flooded with opinions, fad diets and never ending lists of super foods (black pudding is the latest food stuff tipped for the top if you haven’t been following ‘food news’ lately). For the most part food blogs look at the latest trends and, simply put, how to stuff yourself rotten or focus on a range of incredibly specific dietary requirements.

This is not our focus, although there will certainly be a number of coeliac friendly and over-indulgent recipes along the way. We want to teach others to approach food in a more thoughtful way rather than settling for compulsive consumption. We want to encourage people to eat seasonally using simple recipes that don’t necessarily require half the kitchen equipment and a plethora of ingredients to make.

We want to encourage people to think about where their food comes from, encouraging people to avoid eating cheap meat every evening and opting for better quality meat, less often. By the same token we also want to show people how to eat more vegetarian meals mid-week.

So with that in mind you can expect to see the following posts over the next few weeks: we will be launching the first of our ‘Shopping Basket’ features, giving you a week’s worth of seasonal recipes from basket to bin giving you a taster of what is to come; we will be working on the first of our vlogs, the macaroni challenge, where we pit our recipe against some of the greats already out there; we will be posting what we think are the various essentials for your kitchen if you are a new cook just starting out; finally, we will be talking to our own circle of cooks to come up with a list of top seasonal dishes for you to work into your own repertoire.

To make sure you don’t miss any of these you can follow us on twitter (@howellandharte) and facebook (Howell&harte). You can also follow our YouTube account ready for our vlog post at the start of February.

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