The Food Monologues

The last couple of weeks, I have been going to barbecues. Last week I went to one at my sister's house for one and yesterday I went to one hosted by my friend Nadine. When we got to Nadine's house we found her in the garden fanning the flames over the charcoal, streaks of soot across her face, and as the temperature rose, her face grew more and more rosy. There was a huge array of food - from the ordinary beef burgers, chicken marinaded with lime and corriander, and steaks to two varieties of fish (salmon with garlic and olives and tuna with rosemary and bayleaves), pork and vegetarian sausage kebabs, flame grilled potoatoes and bean burgers that Nadine made herself. She is vegetarian and is very inventive with her cooking. Some of the salads she made included cherry tomato and feta cheese in a mustard and raspberry vinegar marinade and cucumber with poppy seeds. The bean burgers were made with mashed butter beans, spiced with chilli, stuffed with slices of mozzerella and then rolled in oatmeal. For dessert there was fruit salad and a peach flan made by one of Nadine's house mates and icecream that Jinder was scooping up with a pasta spoon - an interesting sight! It was a lovely barbecue and it was perfect weather - nice and sunny!