Three Courses

This is a lazy reproduction of something I originally posted to Facebook, inspired by an eccentric British game show. Been a while since I blogged about food so here's something short.

I got into lots of TV shows during lockdowns, including Taskmaster. In one segment of this eccentric game show, contestants had to devise and serve a meal using a list of twenty six ingredients, each starting with a different letter of the Latin alphabet. In more time than it took for them to do the entire task, I only managed to prepare lists of what I feel would make a palatable three course meal, rather than the crazy things they made on-the-fly...

Vegetable Soup - water, celery, Dutch carrot, mushrooms, onion, kernels of corn, stock, punctured jalapeño to soak in the soup and finally, a drop of xanthan gum.

Pasta Primavera with Pine Nuts - pinch of salt, fettuccine, pine nuts, bell peppers, zucchini, garlic-infused olive oil, tomato puree, Italian herbs, topped with some shredded Edam cheese.

Yoghurt Delight - plain yoghurt, honey with pinch of nutmeg, raspberries, quince jam, apple slices dipped in lemon juice, decorated with cocktail umbrella.

All served with choice of water or white wine.



I did all these over a week, since cooking a three course meal for just yourself is a bit much. They were all fine, although in some cases I would switch a few ingredients around in future. Seems I have a thing for green and orange in my food. It resulted in me having some ingredients that it will take ages for me to use. I guess I could always take the bag of cocktail umbrellas to a party or two next month...