Myriad Musings

My sister sent me a ton of hummus - a 500g Ragu bottle worth to be precise and I accepted with trepidation.  I have made hummus in the past and found it simply boring until I hit upon the idea of adding fresh home made panneer to it.  My sis batch was even more bland than mine if possible. This time I am trying another trick:  Pickling vegetables a la Debbie of Smitten Kitchen .  I had to change the recipe of course.  I am getting the stuff ready close to midnight.  No to matchstick cutting, certainly yes to mandolin grating.  Gau had used the last of my distilled white vinegar to try and make a bouncy ball out of Raw Egg and I had completely forgotten to replenish my pantry.  Make do with Apple Cider. I  mandolined carrots, beetroots and chopped onion and capsicum.  I put carrot in the bottom, then onions, beetroot and finally capsicum.  I heated 1 cup apple cider vinegar with an equal volume of water and about 1 teaspoon o...

Being a vegetarian by birth as well as by choice, I almost never pay any attention to the savoury foray's of the masterchef contestants.  Then I decided to take part in Cook Like a Star blog hop.  In the long, growing links below my own modest ventures, the antipasto scroll from Mich's  piece of cake blog caught my eye.  They reminded me a lot of something called "dizzy dog"(?) my son favours at Hot Breads.  I doubt this is on offer anymore because it did not figure in their online menu. Gau had his sports day heat yesterday; He is long on enthusiasm, short on height.  He has not made it into the top 5 in 100m race since pre-school days.  He desperately wants to.  But he hasn't. I wanted to make something nice to perk him up today, when he faced his more successful co-competitors and this scroll fit the bill perfectly. Changes first.  And the inspiration behind them. I hadn't cooked greens in nearly 10 days, no time to get to the roadsi...