Pizza for supper

 

Pizza for supper

We fancied having pizza on Thursday evening so spent an enjoyable thirty minutes assembling ingredients – spelt pizza base, chorizo, anchovies, dill pickles, capers, cherry tomatoes, sliced tomatoes, olives, grated cheese, sliced cheese.

                            Herschel and Jellicoe were in the conservatory, playing with their puzzle board, and Gilbert and Roxy were ‘helping’ in the kitchen. They cleared up tomato ends and cheese fragments, licked up the oil from the anchovies – carefully shared between them – and looked on with immense interest.

The finished article was very tasty, though also rather saltier than we’re accustomed to.  I haven’t included a photograph of it – it tasted better than it  looked. 😉  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Supper

What shall we have for supper? (1)

I am neither a ‘foodie’ nor a dedicated cook and food programmes on television make me feel quite queasy, though strangely not when they are on the radio. However, I do have to feed my family (anything in number from 2 to 6 at present, but more if others of the clan come to visit) and while I am happy to have soup every day or jacket potatoes with beans and salad, there are mumblings of dissent from others. My family learnt long ago never to praise anything I had prepared because, lacking imagination/interest/time, I would then serve it at every opportunity. Kedgeree three days running does pall quickly, for example. Things have improved, that is to say, I have improved, though not markedly. Occasionally, though, I try something different and the following salad proved to be really quite tasty and filling and we’ve only had it twice since I discovered it on January 23^rd. That’s not too bad, really, by my standards.

Grilled halloumi, avocado and papaya salad

Serves 2
Preparation: 15 min
Cook: 10 min

·         2 tbsp olive oil

·         1 papaya

·         2 limes

·         50g wild rocket

·         2 ripe avocados

·         1 tbsp capers

·         250g halloumi cheese

Method

·          Halve the papaya lengthways, scrape out the seeds, remove the skin and slice or dice. Transfer to a bowl. 

·         Halve the avocados lengthways, twist apart, remove stone and skin. Slice chunkily.

·         Pile the avocado over the papaya and squeeze over 1 lime.

·         Add the capers. Pile the rocket on a platter, top with papaya mix.

·         When ready to serve, slice the halloumi quite thickly, smear with remaining oil. Heat a griddle or heavy-based frying pan and cook for a couple of minutes a side until griddle-etched or patched with brown. Transfer to the salad, squeeze over the remaining lime and serve.

Summer salad

Our supper this evening included this summer salad.

Baby spinach, basil, celery leaves, mint, nasturtium flowers and leaves, oregano, pansy flowers, rocket, salad leaves, thyme, watercress . . .

. . . then I added cherry tomatoes which rather spoilt the look of it!

It tasted good,though.