This wine tastes of Dettol!
This would have gone well with the bottle of Retsina that Ed had last night, had I told him about it.
Roughly slice a courgette or two.,
Roughly chop an aubergine.
Boil a few new potatoes and chop in half.
Toss in olive oil.
Combine two or three fresh mint leaves.
Sprinkle with sea salt.
Cook in a hot oven until starting to brown around the edges.
Serve chilled or at room temperature with lemons on the side (for squeezing)
and garnished with a couple more shredded mint leaves.
My social comment/political rant today is actually concerned with food and veggie-ism, for once. So salmonella is back to haunt our chickens. Am I REALLY not able to serve soft boiled eggs to my children? Even though that Currie woman made the problem public years ago. Has nobody REALLY done anything about it? And do I REALLY have to peel carrots? (the official advice, since carrot skins are widely contaminated with Lindane. The advice is nonsense, by the way, 'cause the stuff is found throughout the carrot, not just the peel.) Or peel apples? (Alar - a nasty chemical whose sole purpose is to keep the apple shiny.) And we expect our farming industry to be able to export to the world? Would you buy eggs/ beef/ carrots from Britain? Why are we waiting for the rest of Europe to go organic (Austria has already done it) and capture the food market, once everyone wakes up to the fact that antibiotics in milk and organophosphates in carrots are maybe not such a good idea? And does it really make sense for a single ministry to be responsible for making sure that our food is safe and maximising the profitability of our agriculture industry?
And another thing: Boycott Dole and Chiquita bananas. They are screwing small Caribbean producers by leaning on the EU to regulate standards for bananas which require huge doses of chemicals to meet (Basically, bananas have to be huge. Why do the standards never mention taste?) Caribbean farmers grow smaller varieties and use a lower pesticide input.
And why does everyone (except Sainsbury's) put bright green dye in their cans of mushy peas?
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