… Chopped Garden Salad
This is one of the meals I’ve looked forward to cooking from the start. I don’t think I’ve ever cooked orecchiette before. It was one of the store cupboard ingredients I bought before I started the project but has since sat in the cupboard (or actually wicker basket in my case).
As I go on with these meals I do think I’m getting better at cooking quickly. I make less mess. I make fewer mistakes. I intuitively know if I need to mix of the order of the cooking process to compensate for my equipment (mostly my shitty hob).
There isn’t much to report about the cooking process. It was on time (nearly). It was a tidy cook.
There is a fair bit to report about the eating. The Orecchiette was great. It’s quite a thick pasta and so it has a good bit of bite to it. Basically this was a simple pasta dish that tasted great. The salad was great too. The little revelation with this salad was that the broccoli stalk went in the salad. Now I’m not one of those people who automatically throw away the stalk, I use it in soups, and if I’m just boiling or steaming broccoli the majority of the stalk will be served. But I’ve never had it in a salad before. The stalk is just grated as part of the salad and it tastes great. Really great. Maybe this isn’t the best part of the meal. But it is the most interesting.
Who with: Gordy and Gavin
How Long: Fifteen Minutes and fifteen seconds
