[2/365] the broccoli halloumi thing (is the name of this recipe)

[cosmolinguist]

Being an adult means you can lick the bowl/spoon not just when you make cake (like I did last week) but also when you make the nice tahini sauce (with little bits of the broccoli and halloumi and walnuts I put the sauce on, so that they could all got roasted).

This is the second time in like three days that I've made something for my lil family that I used to make all the time that for no particular reason I haven't done in the year I've lived here. (Both times because we got sent home from boxing day family shenanigans with random vegetables we don't usually have fresh: this was to use a head of broccoli of course, and the other day I made this which I learned from an old version of the recipe that specified spinach and carrots so that's still my favorite veg to make it with and we had been given half of a big bag of spinach that needed to be used up.

This broccoli/halloumi/tahini thing is also really nice with dried fruit and/or chili flakes added, btw, I just didn't include them today because we didn't have any now.

It was well-received: mother_bones said "You realize I might need you to make this all the time." I said I was happy to whenever we have the ingredients, with two heads of broccoli because one hadn't really made enough food for the three of us. Or one and a half, at least. "Two," diffrentcolours said, decisively. It sure felt good to have such a vote of confidence in the new dinner!

Comments

[silveradept]

That sounds like an excellent result from making the dinner. Nom nom nom.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah it's funny how I do much of the cooking here but when I do anything new (to them) I'm still all "oh noooo..." even though it's always been fine! I am sometimes still not used to cooking for anyone but myself.

[silveradept]

It's slightly different stairs, because if you cook for you and you don't like it, then it's you who's disappointed. If it's for others, that's a whole other matter.

[strange_complex]

I make a broccoli/halloumi/tahini extremely similar to what you are describing regularly too, and I can tell you exactly where I got the idea from. It's something sfred mentioned seeing some friends he was visiting eating once, probably about 3-4 years ago. He gave most of the detail I needed, I figured out the rest and I've been eating it probably 3-4 times a month ever sense, because it is so bloody delicious!

So I'm curious to know now - were you one of the friends sfred was visiting? Or did you read the same post as me and figure out how to make it yourself from that, just like I did?

[cosmolinguist]

I got it from one of the guys I work for. And as you can see I only learned it a couple years ago. I don't think sfred knows the people I work for. I do see you being interested in it in the comments there, too. :)

[strange_complex]

Ohhhhhh!!!! OK, I have completely misremembered this, then. The post you've linked to is exactly the one I am remembering, so I didn't get it from sfred at all, then - I got it from you!

Well, I really did try it and absolutely love it. You should ask J what he calls it, 'cos I don't have a proper name for it either!

[cosmolinguist]

I will ask him when I see him next. :)

[kaberett]

Ha! Congratulations :)

[sfred]

Sounds lovely!

[sfred]

Do excuse me, I've gone back a year instead of a day!