… Minted Courgettes & Brown Rice
Today I have my mum and two of my sisters for lunch. I’m also preaching at church which always makes me nervous. That means I spend much more time preparing for preaching and no time thinking about lunch. But surly that’s what this whole fifteen minute meal thing is about … isn’t it … just cooking a quick meal?
This is a meal I’ve looked forward too, but for some reason I’ve only got round to doing now. The reason I’ve looked forward to it is undoubtedly the crispy Parma ham on top of the pork mediations. The reason I’ve not done it until now is because … I don’t know.
Needless to say, with last minute shopping (and a lack of any significant home growing this year), I couldn’t get any other colour courgette other than green to make up my “6 medium mixed colour courgettes”. So it was one colour courgettes…
One colour courgette or not it was a good one. Appreciated by all. A nice little meal.
(So I didn’t have much time to think about cooking today, which makes doing the fifteen minute meal project a good thing, but it makes doing other things like a pudding a bad thing. So I did my “I haven’t thought about pudding … what the hell am I going to make pudding”. It involves a very quick run round the supermarket and a quick bit of baking and not much else … if you want the recipe here you go: make a quick sweat crust pastry (cheat by using your food processor or KitchenAid). Rest it if you have time (today I barley did) roll it (or as I do, squish it) in to a tart tin. Bake. That’s it you’re done. When lunch is done excuse your self, whip mascarpone with a bit of cream. Put it in your tart case. Add whatever soft fruit you were able to get hold of (raspberries and blackberries in my case to day). If you have time, and if your a bit of a tart (which I sometimes am) add some fresh chopped mint and whizz up a few raspberries and icing sugar and drizzle over the top).
Oh and by the way the musical accompaniment for this afternoon was North Americana by Leif Vollebekk, a record I spent far too much on getting imported from Canada.
Who with: My mum, my sister Selina and my sister Anna
How Long: Fifteen minutes and thirteen seconds
