This week’s Flickr meme was to choose your 6 (or 12) favourite/can’t-live-without foods, either as dishes or as ingredients. Here are my 12 ingredients:
1. Curry. I’m classing curry as an ingredient as I love almost anything curried.
2. Olives; preferably Kalamata, but they’re all good.
3. Blue Cheese. I can go ages without having blue cheese, but once in a while it’s a must have.
4. Tomatoes; preferably old, so called “heirloom”, varieties which have some real flavour; it’s surprising how much flavour varies between varieties.
5. Avocado; whole or in chunks (just don’t you dare mash/puree it, what a waste!)
6. Pasta
7. Butter Beans; I loved them as a kid and I still love them.
8. Chips (fries to you Americans); big, chunky, well fried, hot chips. With either salt and vinegar, tomato ketchup, or mayonnaise.
9. Chilli
10. Garlic
11. Soft Fruit; almost any summer fruit will do.
12. Seafood; although I try not to eat seafood unless I know it to be either sustainably harvested or farmed.
OK, so now your challenge is to rearrange these ingredients into a wholesome, balanced, 3 course meal. Tell me in the comments how you did it?
As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.
1. Sag aloo!, 2. my own olives, 3. Brie and Barkham, 4. Heirloom Tomatoes, 5. Sliced Avocado (Enhanced with Photoshop Fractalius Filter), 6. Sucked In By Pasta, 7. warm butter beans with rosemary & garlic, 8. 40/366 Chips! Frites!, 9. Red Hot Chilli, 10. GARLIC, 11. what’s a drupel?, 12. Seafood Market
Created with fd’s Flickr Toys
Starter: Avocado, with blue cheese used to stuff fresh ravioli served with olivesMain course: – Seafood with garlic and chilli; chips; butter beans, curried tomatoesDessert: – soft fruit – depending on time of yearMain course – you could curry the butter beans instead and have the tomatoes as they are or serve them with the starter