Enjoy the fresh flavours of Spring.
Spring lamb, veal, asparagus, fresh herbs, strawberries, peas and baby potatoes herald the new season. Spring brings happiness to the air, and it bought fun to my kitchen as my friend, the radio host Alison Leonard, quick stepped in to cook with some spring produce.
I realised this woman was quite bonkers about food on first meeting her. Ali told me she had been making "tomato dust "- carefully oven-drying tomato skins left over from making relish, and then pulverising them into dust. She uses this to enhance soup and stews.
Self-described as an obsessively compulsive cook and cookbook reader, Alison calls me her BFFF - best foodie friend forever . . . nice.
Joyful as spring to be around, Ali is a seriously smart lady and, as we shall see, a dab hand in the kitchen.
