Kohlrabi Slaw, Pork Salami and Home-grown Cucumber Supper - Wednesday, 26th August 2015 - Fresh Gluten-free Eating

I first tasted kohlrabi when weekending with a  girlfriend and her parents in Kent ages ago and we ate steamed kohlrabi and.....well I wasn't quite sure how I felt about it.

We had always eaten good plain food at home with many vegetables but never this particular one and I would suggest my mother had never heard of it, let alone eaten it.  However, if we had, it would probably have been because my father was always keen for us to try something new.

Kohlrabi features in two cookery books I've got at home,  in Summer and Winter by Arabella Boxer and Tessa Traeger, ISBN 0 85533 2166. and in another book by Arabella Boxer - The Sunday Times Complete Cook Book -  ISBN 0 297 783211.

I've served up the vegetable in various over the years always liking its crunch and mild sweet flavour, and its odd-looking bulbous shape with green shoots sticking out, like waving arms.  Its a member of the cabbage family and comes in two colours, pale green and a purple variety, which I've never seen but goes well with the growing awareness of the purple veg. with the flavenoid content and appeal.  My family in Australia have eaten purple potatoes, which actually stay that colour even when cooked, unlike the purple dwarf beans I've grown this summer, which are green inside and turn green when cook.... you have to eat them raw, to eat purple beans!!!

I bought this Kohlrabi at Deddington Farmers' Market last weekend and found an Internet recipe for a slaw with carrot and mixed with mayonnaise, cider vinegar and raisins, and this is what we ate for supper last night, with sliced Pork Salami from Lidl and homegrown cucumber from the dear SO's greenhouse...

Kohlrabi from the Styan Family Produce stall at Deddington Farmers' Market. next to the aubergine

Kohlrabi & carrot slaw with Salami and cucumber from the garden

The recipe made enough for a party so I've frozen half for future eating with other meats and salad items.

Dulano Air Dried Air Salami from Lidl....

It was very quick and easy to make thank goodness as I had to get on with chutney making - marrow, plum and ginger - from the tonnage of marrow He bought home last weekend, well, it seemed too good an opportunity to miss!

I'd bought a small one from Deddington so we have plenty of marrow, hohoho...!

the small marrow will be perfect for supper...for stuffed marrow, steamed marrow, baked marrow and so on.  Well it is the season for marrow, hey?

Happy veggie eating...

Daisy xxx