{"id":27291,"date":"2018-09-26T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=27291"},"modified":"2018-12-04T07:33:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T07:33:37","slug":"spicery-meals-and-garden-gluts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/09\/spicery-meals-and-garden-gluts\/","title":{"rendered":"Spicery Meals and Garden Gluts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t posted about our Spicery<\/a> meals for a while but they are still as delicious as ever.<\/p>\n

The Spicery<\/h2>\n

The Spicery is a little different to the other meal boxes we get from the likes of Gousto<\/a>, Hello Fresh<\/a>\u00a0and the latest one we’ve tried ‘MyCook Box. Rather than providing us with all the ingredients we need for quick, easy and very tasty meals, the Spicery provides us with a selection of spices and a recipe card to make a much more complicated, slightly higher end meal. The process can be quite time-consuming and we need to source our own ingredients, but the results are always amazing. The whole thing is more of an event with the preparation and cooking\u00a0itself a part of the process. It’s not the sort of thing you’d want for a quick meal after work on a weekday but it’s the perfect meal for a special ocassion or a weekend treat.<\/p>\n

Date Night in Goa<\/h2>\n

The latest Spicery Box that we had this weekend was ‘Date Night in Goa’. The description from the Spicery says:<\/p>\n

The spectacular food eaten in Goa is familiarly Indian but with cooking techniques and ingredients (such as vinegar and chillies) introduced by the Portuguese who colonially ruled there for 450 years. To begin we’ve got prawn cafreal served with coconut pancakes, mango raita and a cucumber and radish salad.<\/p>\n

Next, a dish showcasing the Portuguese influence – chilli chorizo fry and a mustard seed and mint pilau. Finally, some moreish Indian snacks known as sooji gujiya, the sweet version of samosas, filled with mango and coconut and coated in a sweet, tangy chaat masala.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Spicery Meal<\/h2>\n

It didn’t need too much in the way of unusual ingredients, but we did have to buy some chorizo sausage which we\u00a0wouldn’t usually have in the fridge. Prawns aren’t a staple of ours either, but we did have some in the freezer. We also discovered partway through the preparation that we’d run out of rice so Anna made a quick dash into Borth to get some.<\/p>\n

A dreary Saturday afternoon was spent with Anna and I in the kitchen chopping, slicing, blending, mixing, whisking, kneading, frying and cooking.<\/p>\n\n\t\t