When you think of vegetarian cookbooks, you certainly don’t think directly of Tim Mälzer. That could change as of today and with the release of the new book Greenbox.
“A school of taste for everyday life” is what the book wants to be. With simple basic recipes, it aims to provide quick access to vegetables and co.
And somehow that works out quite well. Creations such as the pretzel dumplings with crème fraîche tomatoes and horseradish encourage you to cook them yourself. From my point of view, the very organic and analogous layout of the book also contributes to the positive impression (compliments to the colleagues from weissraum.de(sign)°). It feels rounded and coherent. The recipes, together with the accompanying pictures, convey a desire to experiment with the ingredients and recreate the ideas. The deliberately non-didactic or dogmatic style also contributes to this. Change recipes? Replace ingredients? Use more or less of one produt or replace it with another? Gladly, advises the Greenbox.
Critically, one could criticize the lack of content superstructure, the lack of connection between the individual recipes and products. But, that’s probably not the purpose of the book and not part of the origin story, as you can follow quite clearly in this making-of video:
Cooked from the green box
The first recipe that caught our eye and was re-cooked on the stove at home is the Weiberpasta. Stupid name, but very quickly made and decidedly delicious.
For this, 300g of broccoli, 100g of spinach leaves (it is better to take a little more), 100g of peas are sautéed with plenty of olive oil and garlic, deglazed with broth and cream and served together with pasta of choice. Even if it sounds unspectacular at first, in the twinkling of an eye a quite healthy and clearly more intensive and stronger tasting dish is created than one would like to assume at first. Not just for chicks, by the way…
Order at Amazon: Tim Mälzer – Greenbox
Tim Mälzer, 272 pages, October 2012,€ 24,95
