Thursday 22 January 2015

'Foreign Food'


My husband is fascinated by all the ethnic restaurants and supermarkets that have sprung up in the last few years - a lot of them in Sidwell Street -  the main route we walk along into the centre of Exeter.  He often comes back with printed menus from the Indian, Thai, Lebanese, and Chinese take-away cafes. And packets of unidentified snacks and biscuits and sweets from the Asian Food Store and the Turkish supermarket.
I've said we'll try some of the restaurants - so far we've had an excellent, authentic lunch -  a felafel/humus wrap -  in the Lebanese place, and I've said we can buy some 'foreign' ingredients and cook them at home. 
On Saturday we bought dried Udon noodles in the Chinese supermarket and a Plantain at the International One Store and I made chilli and coconut stir fry vegetables with cashew nuts for lunch. Tonight I used up the other half of the tin of coconut milk - cooked sliced carrots in it with veggie stock and then stirred in chopped purple sprouting broccoli and sweetcorn. We had it with the Plantain  - sliced and fried in coconut oil.
I wasn't sure about having banana with a piece of cod but then I remembered the meal we had in Funchal on our last night in Madeira where we celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. See below.....


 fish and banana -  which was delicious. That night there was a bowl of heavenly scented 


frangipani in the centre of the table. Tonight there is a gift of just-open daffodils in the centre of our table to have with our 'foreign' food as my husband calls it. He especially liked the drizzle of maple syrup over the sweet sliced Plantain.
 I think it's too much to expect that he'd replace his passion for sugar with nice savoury stir fried vegetables....


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