So far this week we
have eaten food of Italian. English and Lebanese origin, tonight I
prepared and Irish dish,Colchannon, which we ate with sausages,apple
giant sized potato cake with a good hand
Colchannon is easy to
make,it is a sort of giant potato cake with a handful of cabbage
thrown in.
Of course I could have
made Champ,another Irish potato dish,this time with scallions,(spring
onions) added. The Irish certainly know a thing or two about
potatoes.
Tomorrow a home made
pizza of massive proportions is on the menu,a treat for my son and a
damn site less expensive than ordering from Pizza Hut, where if you
want a decent amount of topping you have to pay, I think it's a pound
for each one. Having paid the extra you get a tiny portion of
mushroom or a smidgeon of ham, you need at lest three extra toppings
to prevent the meal from being nothing but dough.
My son assures me that
it is different in the Pizza Hut resterilise and I am willing to
believe him,the take away pizzas are a rip off.
Sunday,and for once my
son is at home I shall roast a guinea fowl with roast potatoes and
all the trimmings...lovely. I have in mind another Middle Eastern
dish for Monday Slow cooked lamb with a side dish of foul medames,it
sounds awful but in reality it is a lovely dish made with Fava
beans,lemon juice cumin,and parsley amongst other things, have made
this dish for vegetarian friends and they love it. The recipe goes
back to the time of the Pharaohs and is becoming increasingly popular
in the west,and with good reason.
I love English Regional
food, and having lived in many parts of the country I have picked the
brains of many a chef along the way. It is nice however to be able to
ring the changes now and then or things can become tedious.
I have never tried to
cook food from the Southern states of America although it sounds
delicious,perhaps I shall one day bump into a chef from New Orleans,
who knows?
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