… Mint & Avocado Chopped Salad
I had a feeling I might do this in under fifteen minutes. This one was the easiest to cook to date. No issues, or at least no issue until it came to serving. Everything was quick and simple. The pasta sauce was in the pan and simmering, pasta was boiling away, and the salad was on the table around the ten minute mark. This is the first meal where I was stood waiting around with nothing to do, while things cooked.
Once the pasta was cooked it was drained and put back in its pan and the sauce added. The sauce is quite liquidy. I had chosen a very large plate as my serving dish for the pasta. This was a mistake. The liquid form the sauce sloped all over the place. There was quite a bit split in and around the sink, down the cupboard door and on the floor. I should have used a large shallow bowl, instead.
It was on the table, parsley sprinkled and Parmesan grated over in 14 minutes and twenty seconds.
This meal is great. It wasn’t my favourite but in a lot of ways it’s the best one yet. The pasta sauce is delicious, the fennel seeds and half a dried chilli give it a bit of interest. The salad is great and the very small amount of feta, just 20g, really lifts the whole thing.
This is a meal I really should cook often. It’s just so full of good things and so tasty and easy.
It was perfect I would say.
By the way there are eight sections in the book (chicken – beef – pork – lamb – fish – soups and sarnies – veggie). Before I move on I want to cook one meal from each section. So there is just lamb and pork to go. Off to the shops now to get the stuff for the next three meals.
How much: £6.19.
How long: Fourteen minutes and twenty seconds.
Who with: Gavin.
