It’s about time to write about the lovely time I had last week when my little sister came to visit. The time went too quickly and we really needed another day or so…but homework beckoned so she had to leave.
Firstly, I must tell you that my little sister knows exactly what she wants (probably I do too), but in this case I am talking about food. Her food requests went something like this…homemade hummous, sushi, fried halloumi sandwiches, baked Camembert, and most of the menu from Tampopo.
the lovely little sister
So after picking her up from the train station on Wednesday, we headed straight for my favourite food shopping haunt – Chorlton. We found all the necessary ingredients to fulfill the little sister’s wishes, before heading to Out of the Blue (Wilbraham Road, Chorlton), an utterly fantastic fish mongers. They also have their own sushi chef, who can be seen most days in the store window busily creating the days sushi. The little sister chose the veggie rolls and I opted for the mixed rolls. The veggie rolls are small delicate mouthfuls, that include fillings such as cucumber, daikon, carrot, avocado, and red pepper – probably not authentic, but total heaven to a vegetarian country girl. Mine were pretty much the same, but included tuna and salmon.
Thursday lunchtime after a morning pouring over beautiful Etsy websites, we made some homemade hummous, defrosted some root vegetable soup and toasted some pittas.
For my hummous, I use a can of chickpeas (drained and rinsed), a clove of garlic (roughly chopped), a teaspoon or two of cumin powder (more or less to your taste), a pinch of crushed dried chillies, a generous squeeze of lemon juice (if your hummous doesn’t taste amazing, add more lemon juice), and a good slug of olive oil (add enough to create a smooth paste). I blitz all the ingredients together, and season with salt and pepper.
Apologies for not giving specific ingredient amounts, but I really feel that my taste in hummous might not be yours, so just adjust the flavourings until you get it how you like it.
Check back this week for more food adventure with the little sister, including a Snickers (!) muffin and homemade chocolate croissants.
Eat the Earth 
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April 21, 2009 at 1:47 am
Katie
Hi nice blog 🙂 I can see a lot of effort has been put in.
June 16, 2010 at 6:24 am
Chorlton Emedia Consultant
I still don’t think there’s enough variety, compared to some places one can visit. And why oh why isn’t there a single decent vegetarian restaurant in the whole of South Manchester?
I was in Kitsilano, Vancouver recently and they have 10!
June 17, 2010 at 7:20 am
CharlieB
I studied in Vancouver for a year, but was only just getting ‘into’ food and cooking then, but how incredible to have 10 vegetarian restaurants! I ate a lot of sushi while I was living in Canada, every other place to eat down your average Vancouver street seemed to be a sushi bar. Ah, how I miss it!