Continuing the theme of vaguely middle-eastern cuisine, and because it’s been downright hot here (17°C / 63°F), this evening’s meal was based around a cucumber salad, with barely warm veggie-mince and a wedge of cool rice.
Raita Salad
- 1 English Cucumber, peeled and diced
- 3 small Tomatoes, seeds removed, diced
- 1 small Onion, finely diced
- 1/2 cup Plain Yogurt
- 1 pinch salt
- Black Pepper
- Ground Cumin
- 1 tsp Balsamic Vinegar
- Mix everything and let stand for 10 minutes
Veggie Mince
- 1 cup Quorn Mince
- 1 large onion, finely diced
- 3 large mushrooms, diced
- Ground Cumin
- Chipotle Powder
- Sautee everything until done.
Spicy Tomato Rice
- 2 Cups Rice, washed
- 2 Cups water
- 1 Cup crushed tomatoes (or unsalted tomato juice)
- 1 Tbsp Chipotle Powder
- Cook in a small pot, medium, until liquid is absorbed.
- Let cool, in the pot.
- Slice into wedges and … wiggle them out of the pot.
As the days have been getting longer, we’ve been considering moving to a new flat, and scheduling that in amongst things like traveling back to California, with some possible side-trips to Portland, New Orleans, and Miami. We’re not too sure whether I’ll be called on (by work) to go anywhere at all, but those cities are the possibilities, so we’ll see.
We’ve been traveling all over the country lately, it seems, and haven’t been really doing anything much with food, per se. I’ve been knitting a wee bit, but with classes having slowed down to only two papers* per week, knitting hasn’t happened much either. What have I been up to? Well, in the past month I’ve added nearly 2,000 pictures to our Flickr stream, and every one of those amounts to at least three having been taken, so I guess I’ve just been taking pictures. *A ‘paper’ is when a visiting professor or a graduate student presents the outline of a paper that they’re working on … for an hour. After that, the audience asks questions for another hour. The questions usually aren’t nice.
Enjoy the cool salad, and feel our fear that 17°C / 63°F causes us to open the windows and break out the shorts and t-shirts. What will we do when we go back to the States?
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Ok, copying the recipe now!! This looks so good!
(As far as temp+tee’s.. my kids act the same, I’m the one that opens windows)
I am so excited by your photograph!
It’s that hot already and summer is not even here…
While we get the hot weather all year round, I found that today was a little hotter than usual especially given that we are in April when we get a few showers and things are cool and breezy.
Ooh! I do a very similar salad minus the vinegar (Rob isn’t fond of vinegar except for rice vinegar). Sometimes I’ll use a dash of garam masala in the raita dressing. A little chopped mint and/or parsley is also nice.
The raita sound like a mix of the cucumber salad and the raita that I make. Sooooo yummy!
And I feel your fear. Although I am suer that you will be fine back in the states. It is when you get back to Scotland that I will feel sorry for you.