In my last post I rattled on about aubergine and lentil pasta. I ended up NOT having it. Plumping instead for something else which I can't even remember.
Today though I WILL be tucking into the aubergine dish.
Simmering now is a tomato sauce flavoured with fresh basil garlic and my 'homemade' wine. Being not a great wine drinker I'm often stumped as to what to use as a replacement, cider is always a good idea but today I've used a Prue Leith idea namely to mix vinegar with sugar as a substitute for the booze.
I'll never use malt vinegar only Balsamic sweetened by 2 teeny spoonful soft sugar. Odd but it works a treat..
In with the aubergine onions and tomatoes is a little chopped celery and red and green peppers. Severly seasoned with pepper and miserly seasoned with salt. A vegetable stock cube adds something too.
Braised for a while then it'll top some wholewheat spaghetti and to soak up the sauce some garlic and coriander naan bread. A queer mix but again, it works lovely.
For sweet, strawberries and ice cream. Two punnets for £1:50 from an Asian guy with a loaded stall in Southend-on-Sea.

Brilliant simple food, meatless and meaningful.