… Mixed Tomato & Quinoa Salad
So its starts. I fanny around, cleaning the kitchen, making sure things are organised and … well just fannying around. I feel nervous. I don’t get nervous when I cook. The last time I can remember being nervous about cooking was when I last cooked for a girl I liked (as in like liked). That was a long time ago. I’m nervous tonight.
This meal uses Quinoa. I have never cooked Quinoa. It was one of the ingredients I had to look up when I was making my shopping list of pantry items. I still don’t know how to pronounce it. This is going to be quite a cheap meal. I only have to buy Mackerel, tomatoes and yogurt. And I will be using much more of the yogurt in another meal (so that meal can bare the cost). Everything else I have. They were either in my pantry ingredients, or I just happened to have them (like the lemon, chilli and basil and in the case of the rosemary the large bush at the bottom of the garden provides for me).
It goes well. The Quinoa is easy to cook. So is the mackerel and it smells great too. The only bit that’s time consuming is chopping all those tomatoes. I could see that if you don’t have very good knife skills this could really slow you down.
In all I’m done in 15 minutes and ten seconds. I could have shaved two seconds off that if my tongs had been put away in the right place!!
It was a great meal. The salad was great and I’ll be cooking Quinoa again. The horseradish sauce just hot enough. And the mackerel was lovely. I love mackerel. I love fish. For some reason I don’t cook or eat that much of it so I really enjoyed this meal.
Lessons learnt: don’t put the book and ingredients on the other side of the kitchen. Buy a better pepper mill.
In all the whole thing takes about an hour. Fifteen minutes to cook, about thirty minutes to eat and about fifteen minutes to do the dishes.
How much: £9.38 (and I have lots of tomatoes left).
How long: Fifteen minutes and ten seconds.
Who with: My brother Gordy and my friend Gavin.
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- The first meal
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