Friday, July 14, 2006
More Salad and Home-Baked Bread
Finally Friday and I am ready to collapse on the
sofa and forget that there even is a world out there. So that's exactly what I did when I got home. I sat down with a tall glass of ice cold cranberry and blackberry juice, grabbed a cookbook and dreamt of a world where I have a big kitchen that magically cleans itself and all the time in the world to use it.Not surprisingly I woke up all keen to go out there and get messy. The problem was, there was nothing in the house to cook. I had planned for freshly grilled pork sausages - Marks & Spencer's outdoor-bred Lincolnshire sausages, which I thought were too heavy on the sage. To read what sausagelinks had to say, click here - with a big mixed salad. So I used up all my
creativity on testing Jamie Oliver's recipe for Sweet Roasted Red Onion And Garlic Bread. It wasn't bad, but I think I accidentally added too much yeast (I had dried yeast, but from a big tub, so measuring was a bit hard), because it did taste very dough-ey. Also, the filling reminded both of us of picked onions - not exactly what we had wanted with the rest of the dinner. So, while I see the potential of the recipe, I will have to do a bit of ingredient juggling before we will be entirely satisfied with the result. But I'm sure that's exactly what any chef who puts recipes online for us to use wants. To inspire and get us interested in food. And despite everything one can say against celebrity chefs such as Jamie Oliver, if they are getting ordinary people like my mum to love food and care about what they eat, they have my support. After all, it's something I never managed to achieve while I was living with her.Christine at 9:38 pm
