Yesterday I had some mummy buddies over for a spot of lunch. I can officially confirm that Max loves hommus. I served a Nicholls Roast Chicken from Augusta Rd Foodstore, a baby cos, lebanese cucumber, kumato, feta, avocado salad, a rocket & parmesan salad, a selection of cheese, some hommus, stuffed peppadews, pickled octopus (which Max also likes but it's a bit chewy so he usually gives it back after a while), gherkins, some dolmades (Max declined), one of the girls brought some little lentil cakes (which went very well with the hommus - I'll get the recipe and post it) and another brought along bread (which I didn't touch!) and some ham to round out the meal. The girls were all terribly impressed with my new found dedication to exercise and healthy eating, my shrinking butt and the last of that terrible, wicked cheesecake from the other day.
For dinner I had some mince in the fridge to use so decided to make something approximating the cevapcici my uncle's father used to make when I was a child (or it might have been my uncle's step-mother, I'm a little hazy on the details of who exactly made the cevapcici. I was, I confess, more interested in eating them).
My take on cevapcici (see here for a more traditional recipe)
Ingredients
500g pork & veal mince (Woolies has this)
1/2 finely diced red onion
3 cloves of garlic, grated (bless the microplane)
1 birdseye chilli, seeds removed, finely sliced
s&p
Method
Heat oven to 220C. Mix ingredients together well with hands. It's important to give it a really good go, I think it has something to do wtih the proteins otherwise you end up with crumbly blah cevaps/meatballs/siu mai/whatever it is you're making. Roll into little sausage shapes - I make mine the length of the width of my palm - they end up looking quite hideous, but carry on. Place on an oven tray lined with baking paper. I brushed mine with a little olive oil but considering the fat that poured out of the little suckers I might forego the oil next time. If you're using beef mince or lamb mince I'd definitely use some oil though. Crank the oven up to 250, bake until browned about 20 mins or so, check to make sure they're cooked all the way through. I think mine were a little over done so I recommend being vigilant and playing it by ear. YOU KNOW YOUR OVEN BETTER THAN I DO! Serve with salad. I had salad left over from lunch so there was no more work to be done.
Ciao for now!
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