COMMUNITY

Salad recipes from Arthur Street Kitchen

by HETTY MCKINNON

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New softcover cookbook, published 2014. 184 pages, with delicious colour photos by Louisa Brimble

A community. A home cook. A love of salads

Community is all about sharing good food, giving you endless ideas on delicious salads to serve up for your family, friends and neighbours. These simple, sustainable and healthy recipes feature fresh, seasonal produce and inject colour, life and flair into that most modest of everyday meals: the salad. Rather than being simply sides, Community's salads are meals in their own right, giving vegetables, legumes, herbs and nuts their moment to shine.

The recipes in Community are inspired by Hetty McKinnon's community kitchen, Arthur Street Kitchen, the hub where she makes and delivers homemade salads twice a week to residents in Surry Hills, Sydney. All by bike! Hetty's salads use only the freshest produce, sourced locally wherever possible. Inspired first and foremost by the seasons, Hetty also takes cues from what she sees, smells and experiences from the world around her. At the heart of every dish is a core vegetable, around which a thoughtful culinary story is built, and the result is honest, inventive and hearty salads that deliver big, punchy flavours.

Contents include:

• Introduction
• Welcome to the roots - carrots, beetroot, fennel, sweet potatoes
• Everybody loves brassicas - broccoli, cauliflower, turnips, brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale, cavolo nero, kohlrabi
• The kingdom of fungi - black fungus, pine, porcini, wild, button
• The goodness of cereals - quinoa, pearl barley
• Love, legumes - peas, edamame, lentils
• Hello, nightshades - tomatoes, eggplant, capsicum
• Meet the marrows - pumpkin, zucchini, cucumbers
• In the mood for Asian - noodles, seaweed, ginger, tofu, Asian greens

Community: Salad recipes from Arthur Street Kitchen is an Australian publication. Measurements are in metric.

About the author

Hetty McKinnon is a home cook who grew up devouring the colours, aromas and flavours of her mother's ebullient Cantonese cooking. Formerly a beauty PR, she is now the one-woman show behind the incredibly successful Arthur Street Kitchen, whipping up flavour-packed salads and sweets in her home kitchen then delivering them by bike to hungry Surry Hills locals. Hetty lives in Sydney with her husband, Ross, and three children, Scout, Dash and Huck. Community is her first cookbook.

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Community: Salad recipes from Arthur Street Kitchen - Hetty McKinnon