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 a delicious meal, in over 100 inventive recipes.

• 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
• Smoky Aubergine and Lentil Ragout
• Roasted Shallots, Chorizo and Creamy beans
• Kimchi Puttanesca
• Braised Fennel with Spicy Chickpeas and Goat's Curd
• Joan’s Molasses Cookies

Jesse, or Another Day in Paradise, combines the fresh, casual approach of his Californian roots with shareable everyday cooking and brings the techniques and care to vegetables that we often associate with meat or fish, building up layers of flavour and achieving wonderful results whether you eat meat, fish or are plant based. Many of Jesse's recipes are vegetarian, and all are easily made vegetarian.