I am known amongst those closest to me to be a woman who loves to cook but also an extremely picky eater. It is these two things that led to this challenge.
With the help of my sister, I will cook every single one of the recipes from Allegra McEvedy's 'Around the World in 120 Recipes', aiming to do three recipes a week. Why this specific book you ask? Well, it's simple - we wanted adventurous and varying recipes and this book gets great reviews!!
Follow this blog and you will see how my tastes progress as I experiment and how we inspire our weekly menu. We're cooking each dish for a family of three adults and a toddler. Obviously some of the recipes won't necessarily be suitable for the toddler but we'll try and vary as many of them as possible so that she can enjoy the experiment too!
The whole household is looking forward to this challenge because, like many others, we have dug ourselves into a little bit of a food rut. With three working adults, all with their own favourite dishes, it becomes more and more difficult to come up with new and inventive dinners that aren't too time consuming to make.

So, challenge accepted! Lets see how this goes!

Wednesday, 4 June 2014

Turkish Tapenade (Turkey)

Olives, olives, and lots of olives. 

That's basically my main fear when it comes to this dish.  I've never liked olives.  This recipe will test whether it's the taste or the texture that I dislike.  

 Because I never liked olives, I never really cared what else was in Tapenade. I was actually impressed with how it turned out and how easy it was.  3-4 mintues in the food processor and you're done. 

 Even though I don't like olives, I actually quite liked this tapenade - it wasn't my favourite thing to eat but it was still very tasty.  Soph (who does like olives) thought it was delicious and Dave thought it was tasty as well.  

 I'd defintiely use the recipe again. It's a very quick and easy thing to whip up as a starter if you have people over and surprisingly few people think to or know how to make it.  

The recipe recommends serving it on crackers but I would say that melba toast or crisp bread would work just as well.  With all of our excellent planning, we actually forgot to think about what we would serve these on so we ended up using baby toast (don't worry we didn't really steal the baby's food - she stopped eating it quite a while ago) and it still worked really well. 
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