The Sacred Art of Eating

We had a DIY project to tackle, so I felt we needed a good start to the day to put us on fine form.

• Chopped Fruit Salad
• Green Eggs and Ham

I settled on two breakfasts as the idea of just having fruit salad seemed a bit pious. Even if it did have yoghurt in it.

The fruit salad I made exactly as the recipe suggested; Nigella makes it clear that you should just use up whatever you have in the fridge, but I reasoned that we wouldn’t have any fruit in the fridge (or elsewhere for that matter) and so I laid in the strawberries, mangoes and blueberries specially. Annoyingly it wasn’t until later that it dawned on me that we had two zested but otherwise tip-top condition oranges in the fridge, ho hum.

Our glasses weren’t quite big enough so I had to cut back on the blueberries, but these were pretty much as per the protocol. I’d miss out the seedy topping next time though; they simply stuck in your teeth and added little in terms of flavour or for that matter health, I’d have thought. I could be persuaded into scattering some pomegranate seeds on, another time.

Green Eggs and Ham is a romantic name for a slice of ham served up in a pesto pancake. I figured these would be good but I hadn’t really thought through just how good. A doddle to make, they managed to taste so much bigger than a plain pancake, even one with ham in it. Dougal and I both ate one at breakfast with the fruit salad and saved our second one for lunch. I reckon these would travel well too though, and might revisit them for lunch (perhaps with a little smear of mayo) in the future.

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