Where the rest is heaven only knows

Last night I had an almost overwhelming urge to unleash my inner Domestic Goddess and cook up a frenzy. Or something.

Omens were auspicious - I managed to find everything I wanted at Whole Foods for once and without having to hock one of my internal organs in order to pay for the ludicrously overpriced crap positioned solely to assuage the burgeoning guilt of SUV driving Baby Boomers and nü-yuppies by perpetuating the myth that one can simply buy and deny one's way to Environmental conciousness.

First off I made a sort of layered courgette (zucchini) and tomato thing

Courgettes before

which I baked until the courgettes were slightly caramelised and the tomatoes were unctuous. I don't use the term 'redolent' often but it's the perfect word to describe the smell of the garlic.

Courgettes after

The layering on top kind of got messed up when I touched the side of oven taking it out and began questioning the parentage, nature of familial relationships and general sexual proclivities and prowess of said oven. It's going to sit marinating in the fridge until the weekend.

Meanwhile I made some pesto

Pesto

It tastes great but the crushed pine nuts were still a little too warm when I added the basil which is why it's not as vibrantly green as it should be. Also it needs a little ... bite I guess. I'd add lemon but I don't want the basil to discolour further. Again this is also waiting for the weekend - maybe a picnic or something although I'm thinking of smearing it on some cod and then wrapping the whole caboodle in parma ham or prosciutto and then baking the parcel.

Finally, for actually eating whilst I vegged out in front of the tv 10ft projector and watched my stories I did spicy miso cooked aubergine (eggplant) cubes with teriyaki glazed buffalo steak. This is a particularly awful picture - I can never seem to get the colour balance right on my camera and the flash is either way, way too harsh or the photo is too dark. Sticking my finger or some tissue paper infront of the flash doesn't seem to help much.

Teriyaki

Fry up in progress

Fry up - finished product