Baked an excellent loaf of sourdough bread without recourse to measurement tools.
Finished a superb bottle of Damson Wine so delicious that it made me want to cry.
Listened to a potential Ted Talk from my nearly eight-year-old granddaughter on the pointlessness of homework for primary school children. It was such a well thought out argument that I couldn't help but wonder if she had been listening to the same programme on Radio 4 that I'd caught a couple of days ago. Impossible, as she'd have been in school at the time. Bolstered by her argument, we polished off homework in about seven minutes flat then moved straight on to Horrid Henry on Netflix. She was middling on the spelling of 'sequencing' but she convinced me that it wasn't crucial.
Made (for the third time) that delicious tomato salad so good that I am duty bound to share the recipe. It's from The Guardian courtesy of Anna Jones.
This is my take.
Some tomatoes. Preferably home-grown, include a green one.
Put in a colander, sprinkle with sea salt and let liquid seep into a bowl. Discard liquid.
Add finely chopped chilli. Mine are home-grown. Yum!
Add two cloves of amazingly fresh and deliciously juicy home grown garlic cloves. Yum!
Season with black pepper. Add one part red wine or balsamic vinegar. (I'd run out so used cider vinegar - was OK.) Then three parts olive oil. Look, I know this is boastful but I used home-grown, home-pressed olive oil straight from Sicily. A gift from Hannah's boyfriend and probably the culinary highlight of my entire life so far.
Believe me, this is undoubtedly the best tomato salad ever.
There are some little ones who could talk the hind leg off a donkey - and others who are quiet as a mouse. Sounds like you have (a very knowledgeable) one of the former.
ReplyDeleteAt least you will know what's going on in her mind - even if you don't agree with it 😊
There's something special about the taste of homegrown tomatoes that can't be replicated in shop bought ones ~ Cathy
We had another excellent tomato salad this evening. It's the fresh garlic that does it for me. The weather has been so dull that the flipping toms aren't ripening.
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