Starter for ten

Method

Simply grate a number of carrots and add lemon juice, garlic and crushed cumin seeds. A generous scoop-full of the mixture on each plate looked great and tasted quite wonderful. I think I’d like to try the same again, possibly with fresh herbs. I think that parsley, mint or coriander leaves would all be successful in their own way.

May be it’s the time of year, but life in the Whitsend kitchen has been even more disorganised than usual recently, and emergency measures have been called for – in other words, meals that can be got together in just ten minutes or so. In France earlier on this year, we were treated to a most delicious starter to our meal, which really wouldn’t take any longer than that to prepare, and it served ten of us too! My dear French friend, who by the way is just the most marvellous cook, well organised, careful, not easily distracted - all the characteristics I wish I could demonstrate in my kitchen