Couscous

COUSCOUS

You will need:

some olive oil
salt and pepper
a tomato
a celery stick
a carrot
couscous
a jar of peanut butter
whole wheat bread


I know I promised pizza on my last post, but tonight felt like a "let's boil whatever grains we have in the cupboard and add stuff to it" evening. Tonight I spotted a nice jar of couscous in the cupboard and thought "hmmm, I've never made couscous before but it's basically the same thing as pasta so I'll give it a go.

Couscous is not the same thing as pasta. Unlike pasta, boiling couscous in a pot for ten minutes will not create wonderful el dante grains. It'll turn your meal into a bowl of couscous with the consistency of mush.

But that's OK- mush is something we can work with!

Once the couscous has turned to mush, take it out of the pot. If you wish, you can remove the couscous about 8 minutes earlier.

In a small bowl, put in about a tablespoon or two of olive oil and whatever spices suit your fancy. For this meal, I chose salt and pepper.

I considered putting in basil too but I couldn't tell which was basil and which was oregano so I decided to leave it. Would oregano have tasted alright?

Next chop up some vegetables. The nice thing about couscous is that it tastes like nothing so whatever vegetables you add will go with it quite nicely! I chose to use a carrot, a celery stick, and a tomato. Some green onions would have been nice too, but I was pretty fed up with this recipe by the end so I chose to leave those out.

Finally, stir everything together. You can eat this meal hot or cold depending on how hungry you are. After tasting it hot I decided to save the rest for later so I could see how it tasted cold.It tasted pretty freaking awful hot.

Once finished, clear away all the dishes, turn off the stove, and with your head held high open the cupboard and find some bread and peanut butter to make a peanut butter sandwich, which alas, will never fail you.