30 October 2007
It was sunny today. I worked at the kitchen table and kept up my energy with a small snack:
Just applesauce with almonds. Not worth talking about, really! But the meal that IS worth mentioning is dinner, but it's dusk by dinnertime these days. So you can click here for a picture of my dinner, but I don't want to have to see it on the main page. The yellowiness!
It was a delicious dinner, and all the more remarkable because I made it up as I went. I whipped up gram flour crepes/savoury pancakes (basically just 1/2 cup gram (chickpea) flour, 1/2 cup water, a pinch of baking soda, and seasonings), and I can't believe they came out of the pan, much less managed to look presentable. I filled them with cooked spinach and butter beans topped with vegan mushroom gravy (the rest of which I poured over the tops of the crepes. It was my first go at making a vegan gravy/sauce, and I couldn't be bothered with using a recipe, and yet -- surprisingly -- it was perfect and delicious. Very mushroomy.
I think it's Nigel Slater who talks about 'understanding' ingredients rather than following recipes. I've had my own share of cooking and flavour disasters, but all the experimenting is worth it when something like this comes out of nowhere.
And here are the pet animals:
Look at them all! They don't care about what I cook, unless some of it falls on the floor. We babysat my parents' dog from Thursday to Sunday, and although it went very well (Minnie loved it, of course, and the cats were surprisingly indifferent), we're all happy to have things back to normal. Do you have any idea how much two dogs shed?
I adore Nigel Slater and am particularly enjoying revisiting his recipes in the old UK marie claires I'm going through before getting rid of them...
posted by The Shopping Sherpa at October 31, 2007 07:14 AM