Pumpkin soup and chickpea and feta salad

 

Here's Coco's dish of the day, with the chickpea and feta salad again and a stonker pumpkin soup. We don't have a recipe because she 'Yolo'd it'. There were some nice spices in there. 

Mediterranean Oodge-whack Pasta

Well what is one to call it. This was one of those fortuitous discoveries - we had a lot of grilled peppers and aubergine salad left over so we chucked it in with some pasta and feta. My goodness, tasty or what. Anyway, to recreate the experience...
make your 'salad' (and yes, this is a great salad in itself...) - roast slices of aubergine in the oven , slice. Grill all sorts of peppers until their skins blacken, let them cool and taken their skins off, slice. Mix these two up with chopped good quality  fresh tomatoes, a squidge or two or fresh garlic (I do ours through the garlic press), dress, and hopefully let it stand for a little while. You can add some basil if you want, but it's got plenty of flavour already.
If you haven't already eaten your delicious salad, then boil up some pasta, and combine the two - if you've got some feta or halloumi all the better. A dob extra of olive oil never goes amis, eh? Enjoy!

Greek 'Shepherd's' Salad with Feta

Don't know why this is particularly pastoral (except perhaps for the feta thing) but it's DAMN tasty, really recommend it with the Braised Chicken with Lemon and Honey (or indeed, just on its own - I could eat this till the sheep come home).

Combine: a tin of chickpeas, a good-size cucumber (non-seed variety), a decent chunk of feta, a bit of flat-leaf plasley (actually we fogot this, it was lovely without), 1 chopped green pepper, and a good handful of black olives. Dress them in a standard and pedestrian manner, and serve.

This is a truly excellent salad. It's so delicious and moreish you quite forget how healthy it is - which is, sickeningly healthy.

We had it with the Lemon and Honey chicken and it goes perfectly.