Don't you hate it when you burn your mouth on your first mouthful of something? Today I managed to burn my tongue on some soup before it was even out of the pan! It was actually quite a nice homemade chicken and mushroom soup; with stock made from the weekend's chicken bones, some of the leftover chicken, the last of the Portobello mushrooms and just a dash of cream. Rather spoilt though by singed tastebuds.
Dinner was one of those made-up dishes that's sort of a combination of bits of half-remembered recipes. I wanted to continue the (mostly) veggie theme and had a fancy for something with a Mediterranean/North African feel. So I roasted a couple of peppers, then fried up a red onion with some garlic, added a few slices of cooking chorizo (the non-veggie bit), a can of drained chickpeas and half a tin of chopped tomatoes. Then I peel and sliced the roasted peppers and added them at the end. I served it with some couscous and a dollop of Greek yoghurt mixed with some crushed garlic and fresh chopped herbs (mint, coriander and chives) and topped with a few lightly fried pine nuts. One of those really tasty, satisfying combinations that seemed to work really well.
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