What did you cook or eat today (September 2023)?

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Brunch was half a NY strip steak, and a salad. I may have the other half of the steak and another salad for dinner.


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Ok, much better pizza tonight:

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Same dough as yesterday, but that last pic shows what sitting in the fridge overnight will accomplish. That edge crust was just the right amount of crispy on the outside, soft as a ball of cotton and moist on the inside.

Toppings on that are pecorino (twice), crushed red pepper flakes, mozzarella, homemade sauce, olive tapenade, and pickled Italian cherry peppers.

That is a lovely crust. Exactly how I like pizza.
 
So our evening meal got added to after I saw the strawberries. The soup I had planned to use them for got put back a few days and I saw that they were just ever so slightly passed their best today when I made today's salad. In fact slightly soft strawberries were great for the salad, but they weren't going to last another 2 days for me to make the next soup. So I made the soup today as well, which was a good thing because it's a definite starter soup, not a main course soup which is what we had it planned for. It's a cooked soup as well, which I don't want to be doing at the weekend.

So a starter it became.

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This is curiously down as a traditional Swedish soup, though I don't know. There's loads of mint in it which is fine, but lemongrass and ginger are not flavours I associate with Swedish food... however it is nice enough, just very thin. I cut the sugar back from 250ml to just 100g (for 8 portions). It could have been just a tad sweeter for me, but not by much (maybe ½ tsp per serving).

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Our main course was the above tofu, strawberry, pasta, spinach & vegan feta salad.

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We both felt that the dressing needed doubling, so we'll add that to the recipe when I get chance to write it up over the long weekend we have coming (along with loosing an hour's sleep on Sunday when the clocks go forward into Australian summer time, just in time for 30-32°C!)
 
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