Busy

It’s a busy week so meals are somewhat a mystery. For some unknown reason all the labels have become detached from their frezzer bag. So meals ar literally “Pot Luck.” of left overs.

Yesterday I took bags at random from the freezer. I had cooke d chicken thighs, carrots, and celery. In my vegetable basket there were some potatoes very small potatoes, a few scallions looking rather sad, a courgette which had seen better days and has been lurking underneath the potatoes.

I cannot claim to be a green fingered person in fact I have a knack of killing plants but one plant which has thrived has been “Curry Thyme”. If you walk past it there is a smell of curry but when you cook with it it, the herb gives the food a savoury note as opped to a curry note. It works brilliantly in cashew butter.

So curry thymewas another ingredient. My mind automatically went to rissoles. Now I am not going to enter the debate of what is a rissole. Growing up a rissole was the name used to make round balls on minced left over cooked meat and vegetables.

After mincing the meat and vergatables I added a handful of bread crumbs, (I always have a bag of breadcymbs in the freezer), together with a small beaten egg. then I rolled the ball in flour and placed it on a trivelt in a roasting tin. I wiped the postatoes, rolled them in a little oil and seasoned them with the dried curry thyme. 30 minutes in the oven @180 C and dinner was ready with enough left over for the next day with a salad.

However, I like a suace/ketchup or a relish of some sort. The fruit bowl was down to one bruised pear and wrinkled skinned plum. i peeled the pair and chopped the flesh and made a paper envelope out of parchment paper and filled it with the pear flesh, sprinkling of white pepper and a pinch or two of ground nutmeg. I roasted the plum in a papercase but first slit the skin. These two fruits gave two differnt “sauces” to go with the rissoles. The pears roasted in a paper envelope I would definitley use again but perhaps adding fresh herbs. The plum was grand but needs working on.

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