Summer is time for long bus or train journeys to Bestival or Latitude, or Port Eliot. This’ll get you through 5 hours on a hot National Express coach or a Cross Country train with no buffet.
1. Bring a pan of water to a rolling boil, add a splash of your favourite olive or locally grown rape seed oil, and a handful of pasta shapes. Cook for the time specified on the packet (maybe 8-10 mins), drain and add lots and lots of ground black pepper. Rinse the pan.
2. Add another dollop of oil, and finely chopped red peppers, celery, carrot You can use any veg, but this combo is less likely to drench the coach and your neighbours with cooking smells. Saute until softened. Set aside to cool.
3. Chop a couple of ripe tomatoes, snip the roots off your rocket thinnings and snip the tops off your windowsill basil.
4. Combine all the ingredients, taste for flavour, add salt & more pepper if you think it’s needed. Go on the strong side flavour-wise. This might have to sit about in your bag and will be better rich than bland. A few walnuts or sunflower seeds will add crunch.
5. Tip into a container, snap the lid tight, wrap in a second bag and tie with an elastic band.
Wrap a few thin slices of crusty bread and some Wensleydale (a big favourite with Jim Nelson) or some Yorkshire Fettle, and maybe since it’s high summer, a couple of nectarines or a bunch of grapes. The obligatory bottle of tap water, and you’re sorted.
If you haven’t got any rocket thinnings:
1. Go anywhere that sells seeds, buy a packet (about 99p) open, and sprinkle about half anywhere in your garden, or just a few in a pot or tray your windowsill. You can even grow micro rocket on kitchen paper towels.
2. Wait for about a week. If it doesn’t rain, add a can of water now and again.
3. Pick.
4. Eat.
Delicious, peppery flavour, handful after handful, almost free.
You are now a market gardener in the best tradition of the Raines and Nelsons in our family. (If you’re following me on Facebook you’ll have seen the pictures. I’ll upload them here, too.)
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Festival Salad
Summer is time for long bus or train journeys to Bestival or Latitude, or Port Eliot. This’ll get you through 5 hours on a hot National Express coach or a Cross Country train with no buffet.
1. Bring a pan of water to a rolling boil, add a splash of your favourite olive or locally grown rape seed oil, and a handful of pasta shapes. Cook for the time specified on the packet (maybe 8-10 mins), drain and add lots and lots of ground black pepper. Rinse the pan.
2. Add another dollop of oil, and finely chopped red peppers, celery, carrot You can use any veg, but this combo is less likely to drench the coach and your neighbours with cooking smells. Saute until softened. Set aside to cool.
3. Chop a couple of ripe tomatoes, snip the roots off your rocket thinnings and snip the tops off your windowsill basil.
4. Combine all the ingredients, taste for flavour, add salt & more pepper if you think it’s needed. Go on the strong side flavour-wise. This might have to sit about in your bag and will be better rich than bland. A few walnuts or sunflower seeds will add crunch.
5. Tip into a container, snap the lid tight, wrap in a second bag and tie with an elastic band.
Wrap a few thin slices of crusty bread and some Wensleydale (a big favourite with Jim Nelson) or some Yorkshire Fettle, and maybe since it’s high summer, a couple of nectarines or a bunch of grapes. The obligatory bottle of tap water, and you’re sorted.
If you haven’t got any rocket thinnings:
1. Go anywhere that sells seeds, buy a packet (about 99p) open, and sprinkle about half anywhere in your garden, or just a few in a pot or tray your windowsill. You can even grow micro rocket on kitchen paper towels.
2. Wait for about a week. If it doesn’t rain, add a can of water now and again.
3. Pick.
4. Eat.
Delicious, peppery flavour, handful after handful, almost free.
You are now a market gardener in the best tradition of the Raines and Nelsons in our family. (If you’re following me on Facebook you’ll have seen the pictures. I’ll upload them here, too.)
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