Thursday

It's still quite early - around 08:00. Luckily I got up early as the exotic meat delivery arived about 30 minutes ago. Now have lots of interesting things to cook!

We had a vegetarian dinner last night - as a sort of antididote to Tuesday's Greek meal - it's a very simple thing: red cabbage and pasta. This may not sound especially interesting, but is suprisingly tasty and really quite good for you. Here's the recipe:

Red Cabbage

Take a red cabbage, remove the outer leaves, quarter and cut out the thick stem. Slice thinly (about 4 mm). Finely chop an onion. Fry the onion in oil in a large saucepan until soft. Add the cabbage and about 30 ml golden syrup (or you can use honey, or any sort of brown sugar). Cook over a very low heat for about 10 minutes. Add 45 ml of wine vinegar (or a mixture of wine vinegar and lemon juice), salt & pepper. Cook very slowly for about 2 hours, making sure that it does not dry out.

Serve with pasta as a meal or as a side.

You can add various things to this to change the flavour. Sliced cooking apples (with the cabbage) or sultanas (with the acid) for example.

[By the way, if you cook red cabbage without adding the acid, it will probably turn blue!) 

I have to wait for another delivery later, but it looks like it will be a pleasant day (in terms of weather at least) so maybe an opportunity to work in the garden?