… Sicilian Shaved Fennel Salad
For some reason I feel very determined to get this one done in under fifteen minutes tonight. The meal seems quite simple and it is the kind of food I really love to cook. I am also feeling a bit clumsy tonight … no I am a bit clumsy tonight. The mess left behind at the end of this one is a testament to that.
The order of events tonight is to get the bread crumbs chopped and frying. Put the pasta on. Make the salad. Put the bread crumbs in their serving bowl. Then start cooking the main sauce. I did go slightly out of order. Only in that the bread crumbs weren’t really fully cooked and so I did a bit of the chopping prep for the main prawn sauce while I gave the bread crumbs a final minute or so in the frying pan.
This salad is great. It is great because I think it is the kind of salad that would scare some people. So it’s a shame I’m not cooking for more people tonight. This salad includes a whole lemon. Skin. Pith. And all. Seeds included. It is sliced in the food processor. The lemon only just fits down the spout. (Do food processors have spouts?)
This was done in less than fifteen minutes despite my clumsiness. The meal also tasted great. Quite simple. But great. I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. Not that I was expecting not to enjoy it, but just that I thought it would be ok. It was very nice.
By the way I think I really will have to retire my large non-stick frying pan now. It is now more stick than non-stick. I have bought two new ones recently, both really good, but not quite as big as this one and for some of the recipes using a smaller pan does cause problems. I am very much in danger of burning things with this pan and so maybe I just need to get a new really big non-stick frying pan and throw this one out.
Who with: Gavin
How long: Fourteen minutes and forty four seconds
