… Grilled Veg & Salsa
So it feels like a night for vegetarian food tonight. So that is what is cooked.
This is the third time this week that I am writing this blog at around two in the morning.
It’s been too long since I’ve has falafel. It is a quintessentially vegetarian food. So much so that it’s a cliché. If I can add to that cliché I first had falafel was at the Glastonbury Festival …
I have had quite a sedate day today. I have spent the best part of the day indoors doing mundane tasks. In part preparing for moving next week (with very half hearted packing) and in part just preparing for general life next week (ironing). All that means that I have watched a bit of TV today. Hugh Fearnely Wittingstall (River Cottage) has a new show on. It’s about cooking simple food based around three key ingredients. The book came out several months ago. I bought it (of course) and I enjoyed cooking two or three recipes from it. But this weekend has been the first chance to catch up on the shows based around the book. They have a lovely, pretty, talented, girl chef on the show … I think I may have fallen a little bit in love …
However that book must sit on the shelf because I can’t cook from it until all this is over.
So tonight is falafel. Believe it or not I have been looking forward to cooking this. It looks great. Dinner is planned for about 7:30 to 8:00 ish. But my guest, Debbie, is called into an emergency at work. It is very nearly 10:00 before she gets here and afterwards before I start to cook. My falafel looks wetter and chunkier than Jamie’s does in the book (and on the TV show – I also watched that today). Every thing else goes well and quickly. This one is easy to cook but fun also.
It tastes good and healthy. I really, really liked the veg (seared on a bare griddle pan). I would recommend this, I really would.
Who with: Debbie and Gavin
How long: Thirteen minutes and thirty seconds
