Mediterranean Beef Squid

Triggered by Bruce Schnier's Mediterranean Beef Squid hoax I went for a beef, olives, tomatoe and tamarind dish.

Ingredients

• Organic Beef Rib Eye Steak
• Two squid tubes
• Sainsburies smoky tomatoe paste
• Half a tube of tomatoe puree
• two teaspoons Tamarind paste
• 6 large green olives
• Coarse ground black pepper
• Half a red pepper
• Two cloves garlic
• Three spring onions
• 1 anchovy

Trim the fat and fry hard in skillet

Cube lean and add to beef fat

Finely slice olives

Slice red pepper

Chop spring onions

Lightly fry peppers and onions and black pepper, adding anchovy, tamarind, smokey tomatoe paste and tomatoe purree.

Served with rice and spinach.

Pea and Walnut Pesto

Aiming to fill a hand held wizzer, served with spagetti, which was already cooked.

Incredients

• Half a pint of frozen Petit Pois
• One red onion roughly sliced
• 4 cloves of garlic, chopped
• Handful of walnuts, say 20 halves
• One slice of lemon
• Half teaspoon salt
• Spouts of a fennel
• Some celery spouts
• Teaspoon crushed black pepper
• Tablespoon sliced parmesan
• Third of a pint of virgin olive oil

Add a small amount of boiling water to peas, onion, 3 cloves of chopped garlic and walnuts.

Bring back to the boil, boil for three minutes.

Seive, adding juices to the pasta which should be ready about now.

Add par boiled peas to mixer.

Add salt, pepper, one clove of raw garlic, fennel, celery, parmesan, olive oil.

Whizz, mix half into pasta to serve three.

I sprinkled with dessicated coconut, though the less adventurous didn't.

Remaining half shown below.

Well received lunch.