Despite PSB (purple sprouting broccoli) not working out for me this year (mainly due to labelling errors and then neglecting plug plants) I have still had some home grown broccoli. Or calabrese. According to www.allotment.org.uk the way you can tell the difference is not to go by supermarket labels which confuse matters. Apparently the main variable is that broccoli is an over wintered crop but calabrese produces its crop the same year before winter. and that the flavour of calabrese is milder and much preferred by many to sprouting broccoli and it is an easier crop to grow.
My versions are small and growing in the raised bed border where they were supposed to be adding a vibrant purple. But that is the problem with mislabelling - heyho.
They have still been put to good use. I steamed and added the spears to a skinny minnie macaroni cheese from Cook Vegetarian magazine. I couldn't find the exact recipe online for you but it isn't too different from this one. The one I made had more vegetables (carrots, leeks, onion, asparagus and peas) and less pasta - 175g. And the topping was grated parmesan (didn't have breadcrumbs to hand) though if you were really vegetarian you wouldn't use parmesan because it uses rennet (which is apparently something to do with cow intestines - oh yum)
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