MiniMonos Meatless Meal: Dinner from foxie3000's garden

My daughter, Grace (also known as foxie3000 on MiniMonos) has a garden which provided us with dinner tonight!

Tonight was a perfect evening, sun shining, and no wind.  Here is the view from our outdoor dining area:

The garden is bursting with beans, zucchini, swiss chard, basil and carrots.  Grace has been lovingly looking after the garden for the last couple of months and every night has been out picking purple and red carrots and selecting leaves for the evening’s salad.  Tonight Grace picked spinach, multi-colored chard (red & yellow), cos, red oak lettuce and arugula.  Serve with your favourite dressing!

We have too many zucchini at the moment.  Here is something wonderful to do with them!

Spring Fritters

2 scallions
2 cups cooked peas (ours were out of the freezer)
Mint – approx 30 leaves (optional but we like lots!)
2 zucchini
3 free-range eggs
1 tsp baking powder
2/3 cup flour
200 g haloumi cheese, sliced into thin 1 inch squares

Blend scallions, peas & mint (in a food processor, or use a wand). 
Grate zucchini & squeeze out as much of the liquid content as possible. 

Add to blended mix stir with a wooden spoon.
Mix in eggs. Add baking powder & flour
Salt & pepper to taste. Mix with wooden spoon.

Fry tablespoons of mixture in fry pan.  Before turning fritter, put a piece of haloumi onto each fritter. 

The mixture can be saved in the refrigerator for up to 3 days and made into fritters later – it's actually pretty good for brunch too!.
Serves 6 as an entrée (main) or 12-18 as starter or part of a platter.

Serve with aioli and lemon wedges.

Aioli
5-8 cloves of garlic, blended with 2 egg yolks with wand blender, food processor or whisk. Blend in 1-1¼ cup oil (I used equal parts canola and olive) little by little.  The mixture will thicken suddenly. Add salt, pepper and juice of half a lemon.

Here they are!  Good friends, good food.  We drank a little apple cider with them, and all was well with the world.

Somehow, we were hungry again an hour later so we had dessert! Strawberries, pineapple sliced, with 2 kinds of chocolate sauce (white and dark).  We sat outside and marvelled at the beauty all around us – in the natural world, in our friends, and all creation!

Comments

[penny aka jeroxie]

Oh nice. beautiful garden. home grown vege. perfect :)