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Thursday, 2 May 2024

Gazpacho & Panzanella

昨日の夜中、2時ごろにすごい雷と雨と稲妻が30分くらいでしょうか、続きました。シンガポールを思い出す凄さでした。 After midnight, around 2:00am, there was thunder and heavy rain for about 30 minut…
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Gazpacho & Panzanella

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May 2

昨日の夜中、2時ごろにすごい雷と雨と稲妻が30分くらいでしょうか、続きました。シンガポールを思い出す凄さでした。

After midnight, around 2:00am, there was thunder and heavy rain for about 30 minutes or maybe longer, it reminded me of Singapore.

今日の夕食は、ガスパチョとパンツァネッラというイタリアのパンを入れたサラダ、という夏っぽいメニューでした。夫が「ヒートウェーブが来るらしい」と何度も言っていますが、今日も最高気温は15度くらい、この先2週間も最高気温が18度というのが最高です。ロンドンは20度くらいになる予報ですが、5月初めに20度でヒートウェーブって言うんでしょうか?5月にもなれば20度くらいになって普通では?と思うのですが。。。

Today's dinner was Gazpacho & Panzanella (Italian salad with bread), very summery menu.  we've been having cold weather for so long that I got fed up with wintry menu, I guess.  My husband keeps telling me that we are going to have a heatwave but it was 15C highest today and even in the next 2 weeks the highest temperature expected is 18C.  It looks like they are expecting 20C in London, but 20C in early May is a heatwave??  That sounds like a normal temperature for May to me.

そうそう、昨日書き忘れましたが、5月に入りましたね。今年も3分の1が過ぎてしまいました。毎年、時が経つスピードが早くなります。

I forgot to write but we are now in May, so 1/3 of this year has gone!  Every year, the speed of the time seems to increase.

それはともかく、夕食は美味しく出来ました。家の中は暑いくらいなので、夏っぽいメニューもオーケー。今日はお天気は悪かったのですが気温はやや上がって来ていますし、日が長くなったので夏に向かっている気分にはなっています。テーブルセッティングは、夫がしてくれました。わたしが適当にお料理を作る時は夫がテーブルセッティングをしてくれることが多いです。

Anyway, the dinner was good.  As it's very warm inside (sometimes too warm), summery menu seemed OK.  It wasn't nice weather today but the temperature is slowing going up and the days are getting longer, so I have started to feel that we are going closer to the summer.  My husband set the table, he often does when I don't follow a recipe because he cannot help me much (unless I ask him to fetch me this or that).

パンツァネッラは、本来は硬くなったパンを柔らかくして使うようなのですが、去年、ローマにお住まいのお友達のところに遊びに行った時に教えていただいたように、乾パンのようなもの(フェンネルシード入り)を水道からのお水にさっと(ほんのちょっと)潜らせてしばらく置いておいたものを使っています。少し柔らかくはなるのですが、カリカリも残っていて良い加減で美味しいです。他に入れたのは、トマト、玉ねぎ、オレンジのパプリカ、きゅうり、フェンネル(お野菜)、サラダ菜類、ロメインレタス、ロケット、アボカド。アボカドは水っぽくて全然美味しくなくて残念でした。ドレッシングもシンプルにレモン汁、ホワイトバルサミコ、オリーブオイル、塩胡椒。

I think traditional recipe for Panzanella uses a day or two old bread softened by soaked in water, but I use Italian dried bread (very hard and with fennel seeds).  You just put a little bit of water from a tap, not all over and not much, and leave it until it softens a little.  This is the way a friend of ours in Rome showed us and I liked it better than traditional softened bread.  Although the bread here softens very slightly, it's still quite crunchy and I like that.  Other than that, I used tomato, onion, red pepper, cucumber, fennel, salad leave mix, Romain lettuce, rocket and avocado.  Avocado was sadly very watery and not nice at all.  For the dressing, I used lemon juice, white balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt & pepper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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