Kirstin: We celebrated our first outdoor lunch of the year with this DELICIOUS Ottolenghi salad from the Feast app. The recipe is made of three parts (agrodolce raisins, lemon zest ricotta and grilled courgettes) which you then assemble together, before topping with fried capers and herbs. So while this wasn’t necessarily a throw it all together kind of easy dish, I knew what I was signing myself up for when I chose an Ottolenghi recipe. Faffing but also complex flavours. The result was joyous; a celebration of all that is Summer.
But there’s more. Because the app design is also worth mentioning here. Feast has a really user-friendly easy to navigate interface. When you are ready to make your recipe, you click on “Start cooking” which highlights and zooms through each step of the process. You can easily click back on ingredients when you need to from this tab. I also LOVE that there is a “Notes” section for personal comments (although interestingly there isn’t a public comment section as in the NYT app where I don’t know about you but I have been known to lose an hour or two in stories and tips).
This lunch was a real treat after the long winter. And I can neither confirm nor deny that a glass or two of rosé was served alongside just to compliment that Summer feeling.