Happy bank holiday weekend, UKers! I can't tell you how much I needed it, even with all the weirdness of semi-cancelled celebrations and my inability to stop analysing public engagement with history. Days off, and the tremendous Sicilian wine I opened about 27 minutes ago, are what I needed.
Among the many things that are happening this weekend, which seems to have become a magnet for Saving British Stuff events, is British Cheese Weekender, as I have twote before. Artisanal production is one of the many industries massively done over by covid, but this one we can help by eating more cheese. So, do that, perhaps. I have, though since the below I have given half of it away because practicalities. (I hear the French cheese industry is also suffering if you'd like to extend the love overseas. I will get there for my Elsewhere entry, when it comes)
I also had London halloumi tonight, slightly coincidentally, as this came from last week's lavish delivery. Gorgeous freshish squeaky cheese, served with an aubergine, bean and tomato stew, flavoured with cumin and paprika. Lots of garlic, and no onion, because as I just said on Kate's post, I have reached the point where I will scream if I have to chop another one this week. Good old onions, but all this home cooking has made me spend far too much time with them.
I was going to blog this properly, but, really, there's nothing to blog - the stew is super simple, it cooked down nicely. This is yet another Claire Thomson recipe, and she's quite right that serving halloumi on a warm stew helps stop the last bits becoming cold and rubbery. Hurrah all round, but it's not exactly a storyteller's dream.
I wasn't going to have it with bread too, because there's a whole tin of borlotti beans in there which seemed like plenty of carbs across two meals. But it's a runny stew, and the flatbread did add something. And I did a parental supermarket run today, in a fleece because I left home early, and I estimate I lost approximately a stone in sweat by the time I got home at sunny lunchtime. So let's go flatbread.
The point of this post is only partly to let you know I ate a moderately tasty veggie dish - it's also about a new challenge/amnesty for the next few days: a much less full-on one than Elsewhere Kitchen. On twitter (#CKAmnesty) or on here if you're so moved, please feel free to share the posts you *nearly* made. The photos you took and forgot to share, or the before without the after when you got distracted. If you can remember what that blurry image of some chopped onion cooking was going to be about, let us know!
Or, like me here, where there just wasn't a story, or brainpower to find the story.
I also have this entry:
It's a delicious salad. But all it is is a mozzarella/basil/tomato with some added grapes. Good to know this really works as a twist on the tricolore. Underwhelming as a story. Eat all you like, though, I certainly intend to over this summer. Sometimes a nice plate of food is just that.
Among the many things that are happening this weekend, which seems to have become a magnet for Saving British Stuff events, is British Cheese Weekender, as I have twote before. Artisanal production is one of the many industries massively done over by covid, but this one we can help by eating more cheese. So, do that, perhaps. I have, though since the below I have given half of it away because practicalities. (I hear the French cheese industry is also suffering if you'd like to extend the love overseas. I will get there for my Elsewhere entry, when it comes)
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| Never say I don't heed the call of cheese. My weekend is looking daaaaaamn fine |
I also had London halloumi tonight, slightly coincidentally, as this came from last week's lavish delivery. Gorgeous freshish squeaky cheese, served with an aubergine, bean and tomato stew, flavoured with cumin and paprika. Lots of garlic, and no onion, because as I just said on Kate's post, I have reached the point where I will scream if I have to chop another one this week. Good old onions, but all this home cooking has made me spend far too much time with them.
I was going to blog this properly, but, really, there's nothing to blog - the stew is super simple, it cooked down nicely. This is yet another Claire Thomson recipe, and she's quite right that serving halloumi on a warm stew helps stop the last bits becoming cold and rubbery. Hurrah all round, but it's not exactly a storyteller's dream.
I wasn't going to have it with bread too, because there's a whole tin of borlotti beans in there which seemed like plenty of carbs across two meals. But it's a runny stew, and the flatbread did add something. And I did a parental supermarket run today, in a fleece because I left home early, and I estimate I lost approximately a stone in sweat by the time I got home at sunny lunchtime. So let's go flatbread.
The point of this post is only partly to let you know I ate a moderately tasty veggie dish - it's also about a new challenge/amnesty for the next few days: a much less full-on one than Elsewhere Kitchen. On twitter (#CKAmnesty) or on here if you're so moved, please feel free to share the posts you *nearly* made. The photos you took and forgot to share, or the before without the after when you got distracted. If you can remember what that blurry image of some chopped onion cooking was going to be about, let us know!
Or, like me here, where there just wasn't a story, or brainpower to find the story.
I also have this entry:
It's a delicious salad. But all it is is a mozzarella/basil/tomato with some added grapes. Good to know this really works as a twist on the tricolore. Underwhelming as a story. Eat all you like, though, I certainly intend to over this summer. Sometimes a nice plate of food is just that.
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