West or
southwest 4 or 5, increasing 6 or 7, perhaps gale 8 later.
Moderate or
rough, but slight at first.
Fair then
rain, showers later.
Good,
occasionally poor.
Today was
kitchen day. Started it with homemade sushi, made Vegetarian burgers, decided
they might be better tomorrow and made today`s dish.
Its not that
I don’t have anything else to do. Far from it. If you move, you are incredible
active in the first week. And then it slows down. And then it becomes a drag.
Like the ironing in your basket. Part of you knows no one else does it, but
then you see your kids pulling out T-Shirts and wearing them happily and you
think: Hey, maybe it will be sorted just like that.
The problem is that you are
not at ease with that decision. The boxes (which might be done in three hours)
become a mountain on your conscience. You cant read with ease, not go for a
walk with ease. You cant relax. So you pretend to be busy and you might be
really busy, but at the end of the day there are still the boxes.
I have about
20 boxes left which need sorting and organizing. Half of them are papers. A
more mature mind would go through each paper, file it under necessary or no
longer of importance and discard it.
Honestly, I
doubt I will be ever mature.
But these
are not the worse. The others are somehow emotional. Like the big box of
gorgeous expensive dresses which still kind of fit. They are just a bit tight. Show
too much of what you don’t want to show. No big deal. Not even a stone to lose,
and you think: Ah well, one day I am back to my pre-menopausal figure.
You know, unless you have cancer, this wont happen. And then the question if they are
nice is the last thing on your mind. But you keep onto them.
Or my three (!!!)
boxes of evening dresses. Timeless, fitting, silk, stunning. If I wear one per
year it was a good year. But, you know, maybe in 5 years I will go to a
function and one of them will be just perfect.
Honestly, that’s
pathetic.
So I look
for perfectly good reasons to not do them. As in: My attic is slanted and if I
work more than one hour my back hurts.
Which is
true. My back starts hurting after 40 minutes.
But I could
work each day for 30 minutes and the job will be done in a week.
But it is
not about my back or the time, it`s that I don’t want to do it.
Hence I cook
up a storm on a wonderful Sunday.
Anyway,
guess I am digressing.
After having
decided that the Vegetarian burgers could do with an overnight rest, I looked
into my fridge and saw leftovers which needed to be used. A few tablespoons of double cream, a big jar of
yoghurt containing only 2 tablespoons of food, a quarter of a mozzarella, some
mushrooms turning slightly brown at the edge. And the nagging idea I had in my
mind since I cooked jackfruit the first time: Zuercher Geschnetzeltes combined
with a dish I had many times: Pork loin in a mustard cream.
Jackfruit with mushrooms in a creamy mustard sauce
1 tin of green
jackfruit in brine, drained and washed
1 shallot,
finely chopped
1 clove of
garlic, peeled but left whole
4 mushrooms,
sliced
4 tablespoons
of double cream
2 tablespoons
of full fat yoghurt
a quarter of
a mozzarella, finely shredded
(Or
substitute the last two ingredients with 3 tablespoons of crème fraiche)
1 teaspoon
of French wholegrain mustard
1 teaspoon
of Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon
of butter
Half a glass
of either white wine or mushroom stock
Drain and
wash the brine from the jackfruit. Add the butter in a pan, add chopped shallot
and the garlic and let cook on low temperature for about 5 minutes until slightly
soft. Add sliced mushrooms and let them take on some colour without losing
their softness. Add either white wine or mushroom stock and soften them. Reduce
liquid by half. Add cream, yoghurt and mozzarella, salt and black pepper and
let it bubble away for 2 minutes. Take off the heat.
In another
pan fry dry the jackfruit until greyish-pink. Add both mustards, stir to
combine and heat through. Be careful, it sticks easily and destroys your pan.
Remove from
heat, put the other pan onto heat and add the jackfruits to the mixture.
Cook on very
low for about 7-10 minutes. If it reduces to quick, add a tablespoon or two of
water. Serve with either pasta, croquettes or Roesti.
Verdict:
Not joking,
it was amazing. Happiness inducing food.
Okay, it was
far too much. Easily serves two. I had seconds and there is still some left. Maybe
even another portion. But then I had a generous amount of croquettes. And
salad.
I don’t think
I can blame it on the choice of my music that I felt for the first time today
relaxed.
And not
guilty at all.
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