I had a crap day yesterday, and by the time I got home, I didn’t want to cook. For hours I started wistfully at the bag of vegetables I’d brought home from the farmer’s market – I’d had such plans for them, but I just didn’t give a damn anymore. How did I deal with it? I did what any self respecting chef would do in my situation. I said screw it and tossed a bunch of random crap in a pan and let it cook.
The end result is what we’ve dubbed:
“I Don’t Give a F*** Vegetable Medley.”
Essentially, I chopped up a bunch of vegetables (garlic, cauliflower, carrots, zucchini, and chard) and stewed them in completely indiscriminate amounts of extra virgin olive oil, soy sauce, red wine, piri piri sauce, pebrella, sea salt, and black pepper. Tasted it, needed sweetness, so I added a tablespoon of local honey and a sprig of fresh rosemary. Tasted it again, needed zing, so I threw in some lemon juice.
Sloppy? Definitely. Tasty? Very.
This would have been really good over rice, but it was already 9pm and I just wanted something that would digest before we went to bed around midnight. Overall a successful experiment, especially considering that I didn’t give a rat’s ass how it turned out, as long as it was edible.
The moral of the story: don’t be afraid to experiment, even if you’re not feeling it. You never know what you’ll end up with when you just say “whatever” and throw together some completely disparate ingredients.
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Haha!
I do something similar, but roast instead of stewing. I roast as many of these as we have – potato, sweet potato, pumpkin, onion, mushroom, capsicum, tomato, zucchini (putting ones that take longer to cook in first) with some whole garlic cloves and a sprinkling of smoked paprika. Sometimes I add chilli or other herbs/spices too. When the veges are done, I add seeded mustard and lemon juice, and I bet honey would work well too! It’s always delicious, I sometimes throw in some snow peas or broccoli near the end for some extra greenery. YUM!