Nigel Slater - Recipes - Winter (2024)

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What is winter roots and lemon roast Nigel Slater? ›

Roast winter roots and lemon cannellini cream

Put the carrots, parsnips and Jerusalem artichokes in a roasting tin. Trim the beetroots, leaving a small tuft on top (so they do not “bleed”), add them to the tin and pour over the olive oil. Add the ground spices and cumin seeds to the vegetables.

Although not strictly vegetarian (the bottom line for me will always be that my dinner is delicious, not something that must adhere to a set of strict dietary rules) much of my weekday eating contains neither meat nor fish.

Author, diarist, programme maker and cook, he remains very much an amateur in the kitchen. Nigel is not and never has been a professional chef. His food is simple, understated, handcrafted home cooking. He believes there is something quietly civilizing about sharing a meal with other people.

Nigel is not a chef and has no restaurant or commercial connections. His food is understated, handcrafted home cooking that is easy to accomplish and without a trace of what he affectionately calls 'celebrity cheffery'. He is not fond of fussy food and prefers simple suppers made with care and thought.

Red Cabbage

Sure, you're familiar with green cabbage. But red cabbage is high in the antioxidant, anthocyanin, which is what provides its deep red hue. Slice and toss it with other greens for a colorful winter salad, or sauté with vinegar and a tablespoon or two of butter for a sauerkraut-like side dish for pork.

Eating in season is a breeze in the spring and summer, but it can prove to be challenging when cold weather sets in. However, some vegetables can survive the cold, even under a blanket of snow. These are known as winter vegetables, due to their ability to withstand cold, harsh weather.

Around my middle was a thick layer of fat.” The technique to get rid of it was keeping a food diary, he revealed in a feature for the Guardian. “For the entire 12 months I kept a record of everything I put in my mouth,” he revealed. Despite losing fat, Nigel was not intending to lose weight through his regime.

Slater eventually marries Joan and becomes more unbearable from the excessive consumption of Mrs. Potter's cooking. Nigel reaches a boiling point with his stepmother when he starts working at the local pub's restaurant to hone his skills in more sophisticated cooking, which she perceives as a threat.

Toast is all about Slater falling in love with food before he embarked on a career as a chef. As it turned out, though, it was a short-lived career. “I ended up writing about it because the thing I set my heart on, which was being a chef and which I'd trained to do, I realised I wasn't very good at,” he says.

Slater is best known for his uncomplicated recipes published in books including Nigel Slater's Real Food (1998) and Appetite (2001). His autobiography Toast (2003) became a bestseller and his book The Kitchen Diaries (2005) is a personal account of seasonal cooking.

Where did Nigel Slater work? ›

Nigel Slater OBE (born 9 April 1956) is an English food writer, journalist and broadcaster. He has written a column for The Observer Magazine for over a decade and is the principal writer for the Observer Food Monthly supplement. Prior to this, Slater was a food writer for Marie Claire for five years.

Mallmann is Argentina's most famous chef known for his open-fire cooking. He currently runs 9 restaurants worldwide: Patagonia Sur (Argentina), Los Fuegos (Miami), Fuego de Apalta (Chile), 1884 Restaurant (Argentina), Garzón (Uruguay), Bodega Fuegos (Argentina), Orégano (Mendoza), Mallmann at Chateau La Coste (France).

But look anywhere in this house - this perfect, beautiful house (late Georgian, built by Thomas Cubitt, the best in its quiet terrace in Highbury) - and you have to blink twice. Before Slater took it over in 2000 it had, appropriately enough, served as an art gallery (as well as a hospice and a slum).

Observer columnist. Gardener. Programme maker. Author: The Kitchen Diaries, The Christmas Chronicles, Tender, Toast, A Cook's Book.

Nigel Slater demonstrates straightforward, down-to-earth cooking, filmed at his home vegetable patch and on friends' allotments, taking us through a week's worth of simple suppers.

Winter Root is used in the spool of the Sewing Machine to create the Orange Bow Shirt. It can be used in dyeing, serving as an orange dye at the dye pots, located in Emily's and Haley's house, 2 Willow Lane.

The highest chance of finding Winter Roots is by foraging in Winter. But these items are foraged a bit differently than regular items. That's because these can only be found underground in certain specific places known as Artifact Spots. Any area on the ground that has worms squiggling around is an Artifact Spot.

Black salsify forms a long cylindrical taproot with a brownish to black cork layer. If harvested young, the carrot-like roots are tender, long and tapered with shiny white flesh. They contain a milky latex, which turns the roots black when exposed to air.

The recipe

Peel 350g of large shallots and slice them in half lengthways. Warm 3 tbsp of olive oil in a shallow, lidded casserole, add the halved shallots and 6 small sprigs of thyme, then bake for 30 minutes until the shallots are pale gold.