Receta Mashed Fava Beans and Mint Crostini | #WeekdaySupper

The Vegetable Butcher by Cara Mangini is a must-have cookbook for all of us. After playing with it for the past two weeks, I can firmly state that its flavorful recipes pull me into the kitchen and deliver on their promise. But this cookbook is much more than that. It’s a love letter to vegetables, instructing us how to welcome them into our homes, and treat them with the respect they deserve.

Cara opens the book with a flourish of Butchery Basics, focused on knife care, equipment, and various ways of slicing and dicing different shapes of vegetables – and yes, there are lots of photos to guide you. This intro section is intended to be somewhat general, as the meat (so to speak) of the book is an alphabetized abundance of…