So that month didn't exist, did it?
Rather like our Carribean month in June, we have had very little time this month to do normal life and therefore very little time to tackle this month's challenge of food with a name. It has been a great month with an extremely whirlwind eight day trip round the country visiting almost every first and second degree relative we have plus a few third degree, plus a few distant, never met before but got on like a house on fire relatives! We have also just returned from our church weekend away in Scarborough. It wasn't what many people were expecting it to be like but I hope and pray that the impact made will last far beyond the doors of Green Gables.
So, back to the point. Food with a title. It was fun, really fun and quite silly in places. There wasn't much of it but we went out on a high today with Boats. Not only food with a name but also would have scored points under presentation month, African month (ahem, it had cous cous in it...) and base ingredient month (which we haven't done yet but have discussed a lot). Boats is made up of sailing and rowing boats, the former being half a jacket potato with a rolled up piece of bacon skewered to the top as a sail, the latter being stuffed peppers with carrot baton oars. Fun times! And no complaint about any element fom the kids cos I called it Boats. Win. Win. Win.
Next month is five ingredient month. We have a couple of hours left to thrash out the rules precisely but basically any main meal will only contain five ingredients (but, for example, a stock cube would be an ingredient not all its component parts. That is for base ingredient month...). I am also aiming for olive oil, salt, pepper and possibly balsamic vinegar to not count as ingredients... I am aiming to do it as a "full challenge" i.e. every single evening meal. Wish me luck! (And possibly a back subscription to Good Food magazine...)
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