First cooking post

The title of the post promises knitting, spinning and cooking and so far there has been a distinct lack of food posts. That is mostly because I have been making old staples, easy food that doesn't take a massive amount of time to cook. In a future post I will link to some favourite recipes (this is another link free mobile post).

About eight years ago I started getting a veg box delivered in a desperate attempt to get myself to eat more vegetables. When I was growing up while my mother loved vegetables my dad only really liked sweet corn, and I think that made it acceptable for us as children to not bother developing a taste for vegetables. I've been trying to reeducate my palate ever since. 

The theory behind the veg box was that the vegetables would arrive and because I hate waste I would be forced to eat them and hopefully over time learn to like them. 

And to a massive extent it has worked. My fidelity to veg boxes has waxed ad waned over the years based on my financial situation at the time, but right now is a veg box phase. 

And cauliflower is the bane of my life. I don't much like it, we often get them, and every time one arrives B suggests cauliflower cheese. The whole point (to me) of eating more vegetables is health, and so to slather the cauliflower in a cheese sauce twice a month kind of defeats the purpose of eating the bloody thing in the first place. I tend to suggest things like a daal with phanch phoran, but we have run out of both the right daal, and the spice mix, and so I had to get creative. 

Thus last night we had roast cauliflower fajitas. I roasted the cauliflower with a chopped yellow pepper and a sliced onion coated with a teaspoon of oil and a generous coating of fajita seasoning. We then wrapped this with salsa, sour cream, guacamole and salad in tortillas. 

The cauliflower mix took about 20 minutes in the oven and I was amazed at how good it was. It's another one for the list of 'dishes where you don't miss meat' for me, and I think it will become part of a regular rotation for us. 

In knitting news things (sock, orchid thief, blanket squares) have been mostly pushed to the side. I signed up to help easyknits make some samples for an upcoming pattern book and the yarn arrived earlier this week. 

The pattern is a circular shawl and this will be the first one I've knitted in fingering weight yarn. It's currently the size of a large doily and over 200 stitches. 

The yarn is easyknits deeply wicked. I am

Not sure of the name of the colour way, but the colour is so bright and vibrant. In the skein I hated it a little but the more I knit with it the more I find it really cheerful. 

I also sneak in a mitred square for the blanket every now and then. They're so little and cute and brainless for when I'm exhausted.