Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Weekend in the East End


I had a dreamy weekend cycling along pretty canals (apparently the East of London of sinking in them), digging up old ladies gardens, watching the Big C and enjoying spending time with Yvette.



Cooking was also on the agenda! On Friday night, we have tortilla wraps filled with aubergine, butter squash, boisin, humus and salad. Saturday night was intended as dim sum night as there is (miraculously) a Chinese supermarket right next to Yvette’s house. However on this occasion the Chinese supermarket failed us and we had to improvise. So this is what we did:


Ingredients:
Puy lentils
Chorizo (we got ours from the sausage shop in Brighton – delicious)
2 onions
lots of garlic
baby spinach
mushrooms

Firstly put the lentils on to simmer.

Chop and fry onions. Chop mushrooms and add in.

Slice chorizo and put some in with the onions and mushrooms to flavour them and some in the oven (on a fairly high heat) to get irresistibly crispy.

Chop and add garlic to the onions and mushrooms. Add half a tin of chop tomatoes and a vegetable stock cube

When lentils are done, drain, leaving a little water still in and add to the rest

Stir, simmer, add spinach until wilted.

Serve with oven chorizo sprinkled on top with garlic bread.

I have to apologise for my appalling photography. It really doesn’t do justice to this meal so I’ve decided not the put in up. I’m going to put up a picture of Yvette on a boris bike  instead. I’m going to make it my mission to research food photography (if I ever get a free evening this week). 


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