On sat evening, my friend Emma popped mine for chat and dinner. It's been nice to hang out with her again. I know she's been going through hard time, it's very privilege to be there for her. she helped me lots when I was going through hard time, good to have friends! We laughed lots, and chat lots.
I cooked tofu and chestnut bake, roasted kabocha squash, black tapanade, and puy lentil salad.
it looked like this.
First, I made tofu bake mix. Put tofu, spices, grated garlic, tamari, salt, pepper and few chestnuts in food processor and blitz. When it become paste, pout into a bowl, mix some cashew nuts and some more crumbled chestnut. Put this mix into lined tin with cling film, bake at 170℃ for 30mins or so. In meantime, slice(wedge) some kabocha pumpkin/squash, line them in a baking tray, season, and sprinkle smoked paprika and shove them in oven. Now, cook some puy lentils according to instruction on the packet with a clove of garlic and whole chili. when it's done, put them in a bowl add some sofritto of carrot, shallots, cerely, chopped chili and grated garlic. mix with lemon juice and zest. Then made black tapanade. Black olives, mint, E.V oil, flat parsley, garlic, ground cumin, coriander and chill in a metal jug and blitz. When all foods in the oven are done, take out, assemble them on a plate. Finish the plate with more E.V oil(extra virgin olive oil).
I don't really have a recipe, I make up as I go quite often, however, I do follow some extent on baking. According to my friend Tony (the chef), it's a pastry chef thing to follow and weight exactly as recipe says....I do make up though...otherwise, I get board!!! Then, sometimes end up baking some disgusting foods.... never mind, experiment! It's fun.
Anyway, we both enjoyed our dinner on Saturday. Should do it more often!
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