Another reason to be thankful for occasional summer weather — the broad bean is a beautiful, tasty thing. For it I will cook.
Missed the last episode
Every True Singaporean™ should be interested in this post about crowdsourcing healthy, tasty meals. I would totally ask my neighbours, except 1) our next door neighbour seems to spend all day smoking pot; 2) his next door neighbour’s flat was raided by the police and hasn’t been seen since; and 3) his next door neighbour seems to be on a liquid diet.
Baked-in goodness
We’ve discovered the COSMO. Jimmy Chung’s, look out! Heh.
The pointlessness of fascination
And now no ham?! Ham is one of my favourite foods ever and I now have to restrict myself so it’s an occasional treat? How wretched.
Our first vegetable box*
We took delivery of our first organic vegetable box this week — in it were cherry tomatoes, carrots, an oddly pointy cabbage, round courgette (at least I hope that’s what it is), broccoli, basil, and some fruit. At £11 it ain’t exactly the cheapest, but I’m of the opinion that the quality of the veg is enough to make up for the price comparison with, say, Asda.
For starters, I’ve never tasted carrots as amazing as these IN MY LIFE. As a child I ate carrots (grudgingly) because I was born in the year of the rabbit — seriously. I tried to take to one of Kristen’s favourite snacks, raw baby carrots, but it just wasn’t happening. But these carrots, oh man, they have just the right amount of sweetness when cooked and it’s so fresh I’m not sure I can look at a supermarket carrot ever again.
I took this photo just in case the dish turned out tasty. We’re big fans of pancetta, even though this one was pretty fatty (I like the fat, Neil hates it).
And that’s how it looked at the end. It’s made up of pancetta, carrots, shallots, sweet orange peppers, pointed cabbage and The Indestructible Chives. We added garlic pepper and dried chilli flakes, too. It was pretty decent.
* As opposed to vagetable.
Conch, conch everywhere
One of my favourite Bahamian dishes is conch salad. Basically a ceviche (which I really like and Neil isn’t so keen on), I couldn’t get enough of it. Yum.
Rabbiting
I seem to be more willing to eat vegetarian food at lunchtime rather than at dinner. I have no idea why this is. (I’m trying to eat less meat because I don’t eat enough fruit and vegetables. I’m not going vegetarian on y’all.)
Not that I’d get to eat any
Y’know, I’d really like to bake shortbread one day. Because it’s nummy.