Food Porn

The friendly garden vegetable fairy dropped by while I was gone.  The garden must really be going nuts this year.  I got a pretty good haul of chiles, bell peppers, tomatoes, sweet corn, and (inexplicably) cucumbers.  Normally I am not a fan of cukes, but these guys are small enough and crisp enough I decided to like them.

I used the ingredients to form this dish:

It’s a Turkish style dish.  The tomatoes came in handy.  I browned garlic in some olive oil and then added chopped basil, half of a bell pepper (also chopped), three sliced mushrooms, and two dried and chopped chile piquins.  I let that simmer down while I started some broth boiling to make a pilaf out of bulgar wheat and flax seed.  Once the pilaf was more or less done, I added some coarsely chopped tomatoes and one can of some decent quality chunked white tuna to the other pan.  Once I got some fluid cooking out, I added a pinch of cumin and turmeric, as well as a little salt and pepper.  After I dished the pilaf, I squeezed a touch of juice out a touch of lemon into the stew, and then emptied a can of decent grade white tuna into it.  I gave it a good stir and then plated it with slices of the cucumber in a mint infused red wine vinegar I made last winter.

I dusted it over with some red onion and a little feta.  I honestly would think twice about using that much feta next time.  It was pretty good, though.

I really think women only date me because they dig my cooking and I give them an excuse to eat bacon.