Today's recipe is loosely inspired by a bizarre Hungarian vegetarian restaurant I once visited in Surbiton. No, honest!
Peel an onion, half it, and chop the halves into quarters
- but otherwise leave intact.
Roughly chop some courgettes.
Quarter some mushrooms.
Half some cherry tomatoes
Crush a clove of garlic.
Sauté the lot in a little olive oil in a saucepan.
Add a small amount of water, a stock cube and a healthy amount of paprika.
Cover the pan and cook for a while.
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Stir in some creme fraiche.
Serve with either buttered noodles or rice.
**** Cultural Comment ****
This will probably be my only comment on the World Cup. I'm genuinely not
interested in fitba - not even a little. I mean, if even the current hype
fails to make an impact, there must be something seriously wrong with me.
And this isn't some kind of effete pose either. Basically the sport bit of
my brain is just missing. Except for boxing, which I like, but being PC daren't
own up to. But I digress. What I wanted to talk about was Salsa Celtica, who
are performing at the big game on Wednesday. What is it with this Scottish-Brazilian
cultural crossover thing? It seems that every garden fete or public parade
one goes to these days features folk playing bagpipes and grooving to the
percussive beats of O Ritmo Brasiliano. And the funny thing is - it seems
to work! But how come folk in Scotland have suddenly started to form themselves
into Samba Schools of the sort more usually associated with the barrios of
Rio de Janeiro? Last week we visited a fete and saw one such group, with the
wonderful name "Samba Ya Bamba!" Do any of you foodies know anyone who plays
shakes or hits Brazilian percussion instruments on a hobby basis?
"Young and tall and tanned and lovely....."
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