… Tomato Sauce & Courgette Salad
It feels like a while since I’ve done a 15 Minute Meal. I hadn’t intend to cook a meal tonight, but decided to at about 6 o’clock and so a quick walk to the supermarket was required and I had no guests to cook for other than my house mate. I feel like I have to make up for lost time. As well as cooking one tonight I have people coming over for dinner on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and I may do lunch on Saturday as well.
This meal was a bit of a struggle tonight. Things just kept going wrong. I am really struggling with my new hob especially because the big ring doesn’t work. I keep having to juggle pans around the hob to get things cooking right. I also choose to cook the fritters in my new frying pan. I bought a new one because the non-stickiness on my old large frying pan was just beginning to loose its non-stickiness. My new frying pan is now the second largest fraying pan I own. Choosing it was a mistake. Not choosing to buy it. It’s a nice pan. But choosing to use it rather than the biggest one was the mistake. You need to cook eight, fairly small, fritters made from ricotta and lots of other nice things. I could fit eight in the pan. I could not turn them easily with the limited space and so they broke up as I turned them and got a bit mushed up into each other. Overall they did not look pretty. At least not most of them.
The tomato sauce was cooking far to slowly to the point where I had to swap its place on the hob with the fritter pan to get it cooking faster. I also forgot to test how hot my chilli was before adding a whole one to the courgette salad. It was a bit too hot and I think the salad only needed about half the amount.
The flavours of this meal were really nice. The few fritters that didn’t get totally bashed looked good.
Overall I was disappointed with how this one went. Too many mistakes. Hopefully I’ll do better tomorrow.
I didn’t seem to make too much mess with this one. I think this had more to do with Gavin doing a bit of clearing as I went because I had people due to arrive for my church home group meeting only about fifteen minutes after dinner was going to be on the table.
Who with: Gavin
How Long: Fifteen minutes and fifty eight seconds
