Cooking With Vegetables

Jesse Jenkins' stunning debut cookbook offers distinctive, uncomplicated dishes for starting with a humble ingredient - such as a carrot, cabbage, leek, tomato - and ending up with delicious meals in over 100 inventive recipes. Includes:

• Grilled Gem Lettuce with Marinated Artichokes and Anchovies

• Miso-glazed Courgettes

• Cold Spicy Sesame Peanut Green Beans

• Grilled Peas, Pickled Tomato and Burrata

• New Potato Salad with Capers, Olives and Dill

• Date and Stilton Tart with Jalapeno Puff Pastry

• Smokey Aubergine and Lentil Ragout

• Roasted Shallots, Chorizo and Creamy beans

• Kimchi Puttanesca

• Braised Fennel with Spicy Chickpeas and Goats Curd

• Joan's Molasses Cookies

Jesse, or Another Day in Paradise, offers the fresh, casual approach of his Californian roots to everyday cooking and brings the techniques and care to vegetables that we often associate with meat of fish, building up layers of flavour and achieving in utterly delicious results whether you eat meat, fish or plant based.