On Sunday I took advantage of the fact that I could cook whatever I wanted and not the standard demo recipes. We had friends coming for dinner and one is a 'recovering vegetarian' (her words not mine) meaning she is slowly trying out meats, mainly chicken and seafood. Anyway, I thought it would be a great opportunity to try out more recipes from the 'Taste of Vegetarian' cookbook. So I selected a very vegetarian Harvest Nut Roast, and Zucchini Moussaka. I was disappointed. The nut roast tasted good, although it was a little overbrowned due to my temperamental oven! The moussaka was a bit disappointing. Next time, I'll use less onion and chop it rather than puree it. The onion flavour was very overpowering. I took the leftovers to mum and dad's house for them to 'enjoy'! I'm still waiting for feedback...
The absolute highlight of the meal was a dip I threw together in the afternoon. I hadn't had the foresight to organise nibblies and on investigation, found a packet of cream cheese in the fridge. I had no parsley to make herb and garlic dip, I had no sundried tomatoes to make sundried tomato dip. Disaster loomed! Then I spotted it! One red capsicum! I blitzed the capsicum on speed 7 til it was finely chopped and then then threw in my cream cheese and processed it for a few seconds on speed 4 until it was combined. I'll do it for a bit longer next time as there were still some white bits of cream cheese in the dip. But it was deeeelicious!
OM NOM NOM NOM ...NOM NOM NOM...
The moral of the story: Always keep a packet of cream cheese in the fridge and add whatever you feel like, or whatever you've got! eg. tuna, salmon, capsicum, sundried tomatoes, avocado...and make sure you let me know what you tried and how it turned out :)
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