Broccoli experiment

Home alone on nights The Mister is out at band practice means I can have whatever I want for dinner – haven’t yet given in to peanut butter on toast followed by ice-cream but there’s a few weeks left of band practice left!

Look what I made tonight! And it even stayed stuck together in it’s shape! We saw a little bit of a broccoli cous couse thing someone made on Top Chef last week, didn’t see how it was made, just their pile of fine broccoli shavings and the finished product. So I tried it.

I ‘shaved’ the broccoli flowerettes & grated the left-over stalks on the parmesan grater to get a pile of green ‘sprinkle’ that I left to soak with the cous cous  so that it would cook a bit

Then added some chopped parsley and cooked garlic, pressed it into a non-stick pie mold and left it upside down for a while in the hope it would slip out – a couple of taps on the bottom and it did!

It tasted OK, although next time I might use more salt and garlic – you could taste the broccoli but the taste of cous cous was just a bit too prominent.

Still, healthier than peanut butter on toast I’m sure!