A food blog from both sides of the pond
Category : Main Course, Meat, Menu
Many apologies for the lack of posts lately. As Lucy mentioned, she’s been moving, and after I agreed to take on a for extra posts to cover for her, my grandma passed away, and I traveled to the funeral. When I was staying down with family, I did manage to inherit my grandma’s recipe box. So some of the next few posts will be from, and for, my grandma.
I have more apologies to add to Shannon’s last week. I have been lax in my blogging. Mainly because I have been cooking so much. We held a dinner party for 8 at the weekend. This may sound very grown up but we combined it with a murder mystery in a box which led to some hilarity, drinks and some truly impressive costumes including a transvestite Vampire, a grey-haired-thanks-to-some-flour Professor and a fake humpback. And I haven’t even got into the frankenstein-esque couple. I haven’t plucked up the courage to put any photographic evidence on facebook yet, let alone on the wide open internet but I can and will tell you about the food we had. All many courses of it. My only disclaimer is that there aren’t pictures of every dish. I was a bit busy so it didn’t exactly come together that way!
Maybe I’m just not enough of a foodie, and maybe I should go to the farmer’s market more diligently. But I did not know that this existed:
Do not attempt to adjust the color settings on you monitor. Because this is going to be the purplest meal, and it all started with an innocent purple bell pepper. Then it turned into this:
Purple bell peppers, purple potatoes, purple onions, huckleberries, red grapes, and blueberries. I know it’s lacking cabbage and eggplant, but after boiling loads of red cabbage for a “science experiment” many, many years ago, I haven’t looked at the stuff the same way since. And I didn’t think of eggplant until I was leaving the market, but I’m sticking with the “that’s too obvious” excuse and moving on. On to chutney.
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