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Home Grown: Recipes from Rosie Daykin’s Newest Cookbook
Updated on July 16, 2024
Rosie Daykin has graced the House & Home pages as a baker, designer, gardener and cookbook author. The Vancouver doyenne of “home” has just published a new cookbook, The Side Gardener, featuring her own kitchen garden, greenhouse and fresh, creative dishes.
In this exclusive first look, we’re sharing four recipes. Scroll down to see more!
The Cucumber, Cantaloupe & Blood Orange Salad with Feta & Mint combines sweet melon, crisp cucumber, fresh mint and feta for a flavour-packed dish with a variety of textures.
Get the recipe for the Cucumber, Cantaloupe & Blood Orange Salad with Feta & Mint here.
Inspired by a Japanese sunomono salad, the Cucumber & Prawn Noodle Salad is kicked up a notch with spicy prawns. “Cucumber is so bright and fresh compared to the heat of the prawns,” says Rosie. “Then you get a textural feast with the smooth noodles and crunchy radish.”
Get the recipe for the Cucumber & Prawn Noodle Salad here.
A huge fan of rhubarb, which she grows in her flower beds, Rosie offers two ways to use it: buttery, herb-filled turkey burgers with rhubarb ketchup, and the rich and creamy Rhubarb Panna Cotta. “I’m always looking for ways to use up the rhubarb I plant,” says Rosie. “It’s so lovely and tart — and the flavour of rhubarb with a turkey burger is just perfection.”
Get the recipe for the Turkey Burger with Rhubarb Ketchup here.
“Tart rhubarb is hiding in the bottom of this creamy dessert, and the graham crumb on top adds crunch.”
Get the recipe for the Rhubarb Panna Cotta here.
Next on the agenda, Rosie is considering offering garden design and planning to her clients. “For me, the garden is more than just a vegetable patch; it’s about vegetables and flowers comingling into a beautiful tapestry of plants and produce.”
Andrew Montgomery
Recipes from The Side Gardener by Rosie Daykin. ©2024 Rosie Daykin. Photographs by Andrew Montgomery. Published by Appetite an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved