everyday experiments with food
Here’s a relatively simple but colourful salad.
Ingredients
2 cups couscous cooked in chicken stock
Spinach leaves
1 cup pistachios, roasted and chopped
1 cup semi-dried figs, sliced
2 blood oranges, peeled and segmented
Fried haloumi slices
1 pomegranate – bottom half on platter, seeds from top half scattered over
Juice of half a lemon drizzled over couscous
Several lemon slices on top
Black pepper
Last night I made my best ever batch of corn tortillas. I have a great love of Mexican food, and I’ve been making tortillas from wheat flour and corn (maize) flour for some years. Thanks to the most excellent book “Tacos” by Mark Miller (also full of fantastic recipes for fillings) I now understand corn tortillas a lot better. Of course, I’ve never seen a Mexican cook make them, so I’m still an outsider to the secrets. But here’s what I’ve learned….