Saturday energy lunch

We are back to our little weekend routine: going to the country, gardening, playing tennis, baking bread etc… Which means a lot of outdoor time and a lit of activity. Lunch always to be energetic and well balanced. Pasta, rice or cereals make a good base, and since we have local and fresh vegetables and meat or fish I also use many. Today I opted for grilled vegetables that can cook while outside gardening, together with Sicilian ring pasta and some dried tomatoes and thyme pork balls. The veggies are oven roasted in olive oil for 60min. The pork balls I made them with fresh pork meat, 2 dried tomatoes chopped and a tsp of dried thyme (if you have fresh one it’s even better). I them mix all together, made tiny one bite balls and cook them in a bit of olive oil.

Mushroom spread

Once I’ve made a delicious bread, I like to eat with different things and I really love vegan spreads because it’s an easy way to prepare and keep veggies for a few days. I’ve had in mind making some mushroom spread for a long time now, but never did before. But the other day we went for lunch to a nice Japanese macrobiotic cafe and I bought a recipe book where there was a recipe for a spread. So largely inspired by this Japanese recipe, I changed it to suit better my bread. So it turns out being a mushrooms-olives-thyme spread. It’s simple and delicious.

I roughly cut the 150g of mushrooms of all sorts: here fresh shiitake and shimeji, and cook them in a bit of oil. Then in a food processor I mixed the mushroom, pitted black olives (just a large table spoon), salt (adjust the amount depending on the olives), and thyme leaves (3branches, so probably the equivalent to one tea spoon). Add a little of olive oil if necessary, process to puree or chopped as you like. I put the paste in a bin for easy handling. Ready to serve and you can keep it a few days in the fridge. Perfect with my original bread for example!

Steamed whole cabbage

In winter, when it’s cold and dark I really love to eat cabbage based recipes. One of my favorite yet simplest is steamed cabbage. Basically I steam a whole cabbage so that the inside is still a little crunchy while the outside melts in the mouth. I usually accomodate it with only a fruity olive oil, thyme from Aix garden and salt. Today on the plate I’ve added a few slices of crunchy grilled bacon, but it’s optional.

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