Fail

Sorry, didn't made that wonderful purple dish I thought I would do. Didn't cook any food at all, went out with my dear friend LE instead to grab a quick dinner. I will make a purple, homecooked meal though, soon! Just have to find a bit of time.

An idea I want to share though, chrysanthemum, along with alot of other flowers, are edible! It's comon i Japan, where the emperor rules from the chrysanthemum-throne, to use this composite plant to decorate the dishes. I dare you to copy-cat that behaviour! Just make sure to rinse the flowers throughly first...

Photo from one of the many markets in Tokyo

A purple heads up

Next wednesday, the 27th is the "wear purple for a given cause"-day. You will wear something purple, of course, and I got to thinking about purple food. Color-theme, goodie! A completely purple dish. Mabye even a three courser!

This tuesday, I woke up feeling a bit grumpy for no reason what so ever. As usual, I turned that grumpyness towards the most logical receiver. Humankind. Ah, sweet old trustworty humans. "Oh tin-cans lalalala in the garbage with the rest of it, lalala" "Oh, I GOT to have that new hairspray, it's f-a-b-o-u-l-o-u-s!!! What? Did something have to die when they saftey-tested it? Oh, well..." "My house, my husband/wife, my car, my dog, my kids, my money, my world, my... my... my..." "No that's just fiction. Noone will suffer." Etc etc. Egoistic, simple, narrow minded. That's humankind to me. Somedays. BUT! Somedays people do do something right, people take fights, people manifests, people show a good side!

On that cold, foggy, autumn afternoon, a notification appeared on our dear social netroom. "Wear purple for a given cause". Show your sympathy for those who aren't straight and "normal". An easy thing to do, it won't change the world but that kind of thing makes me feel ok with humankind. To see that people are willing to take side at least when it comes to obvious empathy.

Well, purple. Back to food. I'm not sure what I will do yet, it's a shame that we dont have those beautiful purple broccoli here in Stockholm that I saw last time I went to London. I'll come up with something. Something with aubergine maybe...

Here we go

First of all a warning. Yes, you who´s not vegan or vegetarian may be inspired to actually make some of the recepies or gain inspiration by what I will present here, and belive it or not, it´s perfectly ok. My wish is to kill the idea that vegans are angry, starved and extreme. Well, ok, we might be a bit angry, a tad starved and might sometimes get extreme in one way or another, but that's not because of what we eat (or what we don't eat). It's actually just human nature that shows from time to time.

So, come and walk with me for a while! You could start with this, not the best photo, but just as an appetizer

On the big plate there's a cold salad made of butterbeans, cherry tomatoes, avocado, springleek, bellpepper and avocado. Chop into quite big pieces (too small and everything just turns mushy) and mix with a nice olive oil, balsamico, salt and pepper. If you don't have a grinder for the pepper, get it. Now. I'm serious. You'll be suprised how much flavor the pepper actually has, when it's not dried up in an old jar somewhere...

In the background there's a plate with asparagus and zuccini which was quickly fried in a pan with canola oil (the best oil to use in a frying pan) and some salt. Fried for what? About 4-5 minutes or so. It's nice when you have to use your teeth now and then.

What's hardly noticeable in the picture is the plate with roasted root crops. We had potato, parsnip and carrots all cut in sections and sprinkled with olive oil, salt and pepper (again, the grinder! See! Used twice already!) Left in the oven for about 40 minutes, a degree around 200 Celsius. Shovel around a couple of times so everything will be cooked even.

Yeah, that's right. I won't mention the olives in the front.

Enjoy!