Indian Vegetarian food fair, Torrens.

The food.

The seating.

The Temple.

First cake - starting simple

A house (apartment) is not a home until you've baked a cake. This here is a basic vanilla sponge that I made on Friday evening.

Halloween (Beltane) pizza

I made a Halloween feast, pizza being the centrepiece. Then with daughter #2 went for an evening stroll, such a beautiful clear night sky, she dressed as a witch, we greeted the moon which was looking splendid also.

Slap-up feed

I thought that I would try and find something I wanted to eat by incorporating comic lore, thus we have here what was known as a 'slap-up feed' by the denizens of the Beano.

Although there is some disagreement on what constituted said feed, some saying it is any large outlay of food, I go with the traditional sense which was limited to a large pile of mashed potato with sausages sticking out (mine are veggie naturally). Because I have such a sophisticated palate however I have added some fried onion.

This though it may not look like it was the traditional fare for treats and rewards, the greatest meal one could attain for thousands of children throughout the many years (1930s-1970s) of popularity of this most British of comics.




It was naturally dismally disappointing to eat.

Oh and no I didn't make the idea up, here's a reference : http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/sep/08/comment.tvandradioarts2

curry

My potato, onion and pea curry.

After winning at SingStar, I realised there is a point to knowing Stereophonics songs, because at some pont, who knows when, you may have to sing one.

Sunday lunch

Spiced mash potato balls, baked. I call them Potatoes Malatesta.

Wow, so it looks like all I do is cook, how excitement!

Or in actuality I suppose everyone cooks all the time, but I'm so dull as to post my food as of interest. Tho in fact I'm not alone there, there are many many blogs on the subject of food, which just post this inanity, and even some wherein they post pictures of the food served them in restaurants, and why not, I suppose. As Socrates said "The unexamined life is not worth living" the examination necessary within blogging is I suppose something.
Funny just the other week I was castigating John L, on his giving up philosophy for filo pastry (his words) and voila!

Anyway, hope you like my range of plates that have been shown, they at least are not as ephemeral as the food, tho I didn't make them obviously.

BTW, planted out some potatoes today, so hopefully a supply for future meals.

Dinner - Saturday

Ingredients:

Sunflower seeds
Tofu
Carrot
Bean sprouts
Water chestnuts
Baby corn
Noodles
Soy sauce



Method:
Fry together (best to par boil the carrot a bit first maybe, unless you cut very fine)


Listen to this theme tune, when eating.

Cake

My new cake, tastes better than it looks.

1 cup SR flour
1 cup raw sugar
1 cup margarine
1/3 cup oats
1/3 cup ground almonds
1/3 shredded coconut
some currants
2 egg substitute eggs (check health food store), or 2 free range eggs if you wanna


If you want you could add 1/2 tsp nutmeg as well, it works well with or without.

Mix together (should be reasonably sloppy) and bake for half an hour in the middle of the oven at moderate heat.

Update

OMFG, sorry I forgot to add listening advice, you will want to play it something soothing like The Pastoral while its cooking (it will help it really), and Eroica while you're eating it.

Lentil soup

You know I cook (let's face it, not by choice) most days and it's generally pretty basic stuff. This is no exception, but today's soup - Lentil - was very fine indeed. I of course realise that lentils are the supposed very foundation of every vegetarian diet, and am thus supporting a cliche, but hey ho, I do like them indeed.

The ingredients for any eager beavers looking to copy are:
• Red lentils (use as many as you want, considering they are small you want to use at least 10, I did try and count how many I used but gave up at 323).
• Onion (half of one, or less, I don't know how much to suggest as I don't know how many lentils you are going to use, if you are only using 10, I would just add the smell of an onion)
• Garlic (1-2 of those segments are they cloves, or is a clove the whole thing?)
• Beef stock cube - only part of one (now I know what you're thinking but no, I use a meat free one from Israel (Osem))
• Cayenne (to your taste)
• Salt (to your taste)
• Pepper (to your taste)

Method – put all ingredients in a saucepan with double the amount of water, cook on moderate heat for just over half an hour.

Whilst preparing the soup I would suggest listening to some soothing French piano music, but whilst eating the soup you would need something revelatory, ecstatic and sensual and so would suggest Final Hymn the last part of the Firebird Suite that will give you approx 3 1/2 minutes to eat it in.

Here's the grand old master himself conducting Lullaby and Final Hymn if you are unsure of the music (tho actually the recorded version here is not the best by any means).