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Day trip to Belfast today & beautiful lunch @oxbelfast.

Made pea, chilli & garlic soup. The recipe is from Catherine @_elbowsoffthetable_ 's blog. Sweet and spicy.

Plan to drive around the island was a short-lived adventure. Near-miss in the rental car before we left hotel. So many roundabouts. Gears on the other side! Sweatin in the heat we decided that walking is actually very relaxing 😅 We did make it to the home of Cesar Manrique. He was an artist with an ecological vision and opposed the tourist development of the island in the 60's and took his own shovels to take down the advertising boards on the landscape.

Getting all the Mom advice this week. Pack clothes in only one colour, Joanna. Put on your lippie. Heal thyself ❤

Couscous with fruit & nut mix, lemon & crispy kale. Vegan, actually.
Also, actually..I recently watched and loved Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat on Netflix and this little dish is an example of how all of those elements work with food and how they come together to make something taste good. I put olive oil (fat), salt and lemon (acid) on the kale leaves before putting them on a high heat in the oven for 10 minutes to make them crispy. On their own they're just a green leafy veg, and a bit limp. That's what is different about the show (I haven't read the book yet), it's not just lists of ingredients thrown together, it goes into how food is transformed through cooking and what is it exactly that makes a dish taste good. Deep thoughts over my cous cous.

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