Friday August 27th
Day 128
We sit on the back step, the pussy cat and I. My feet are immersed in a washing up bowl of hot salty water. He gazes into the garden. We are basking in the surprise gift of a late sun - hot even at 6 pm.
My favourite supper is on the stove - a pan of Braised Green Beans with Tomatoes and Garlic. I make it every summer, more than once. It’s a rich stew, slow cooked in olive oil till the beans are melting tender and the tomatoes have broken out of their skins and made a pulpy sweet sauce with the garlic and stock. It’s from ‘Cranks Fast Food’ by Nadine Abensur who is French-Jewish born in Morocco so many of her dishes are inspired by the earthy heat of the Middle East and Mediterranean.
I sometimes wonder why some vegetables or fruits compliment each other so well and become classics and other combinations just clash and you turn your nose up at them.
I think beans and tomatoes are a marriage made in heaven because they bask together under the same sun and rain, share the same season. And garlic, like love, brings out the best in just about anything.
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