Mediterranean Stuff

Decided to cook an entire mezze from scratch here. The filo pastry parcels were tricky but worth it.

Filo Pastry Parcels

Filo (Greece)

Olives (Greece)

Wendsleydale Cheese (UK)

Taboulleh

Cracked wheat (Unkown origin)

Parsley (Unknown)

Green Bean Salad

Green beans (UK)

Tomatoes (UK)

Mint (home-grown)

Aubergine Salad

Aubergine (unkown)

Garlic (unknown)

Pittas

Flour (UK)

Water (UK)

Salt (unknown)

Falafel

Chick peas (uknown)

Corriander (unknown)

Tahini (unknown)

Garlic (unknown)

Roast Char

No other freshwater fish is found as far North, the arctic char is usually found in alpine lakes and coastal waters in the arctic and sub-arctic. Unusually, this one's been reared on an Icelandic farm, frozen and shipped south and sold to Tesco.

Artic Char (Iceland)

Potatoes (UK)

Brocolli (UK)

Broad bean rissotto

These broad beans and peas were less than an hour from plot to plate- the broad beans were fantastic- just melted in the mouth. It's food like this that makes growing your own veg worthwhile.

Broad beans (home grown)

Leek (UK)

Peas (home grown)

Arborio Rice (Italy)

Garlic (unkown origin)

Mint (home grown)

Parmesan (Italy)

Pie and Spuds

This looks really horrible but the Gruyere and leek filo thingy was actually pretty nice. It was from the M&S 'Gastropub' range- which is somewhat underselling it as it wasn't an overpriced and tasteless 'reinvention of a British classic' and I didn't have to eat it surrounded by tossers. Result.

New potatoes (UK)

Lettuce (UK)

Tomatoes (UK)

Pie (M&S...and erm, somewhere else)

Monk fish and 'chocolate with passion'

This was from an amazing looking restaurant in El Raval, Barcelona. The place looked like a meal should cost a fortune but surprisingly it didn't. The cod carpaccio was like eating a slightly salty spiders web doused in olive oil (which is a good thing I think). I had monk fish for a main course which was a little dissapointing but it was made up for by the chocolate pudding with a passion fruit centre.

Gnocci

Fresh gnocci (Italy)

Cherry Tomatoes (Italy)

Peas (home grown)

Wet garlic (home grown)

Sage (home grown)

Butter (Denmark)