今日も暗いじめじめした１日で、予報通りに寒くなりロンドンの北の方などでは雪になったみたいですし、明日はもっと寒くなるようです。わたしは１日家にいたので特に寒くは感じなかったのですが、夫が寒いと言っていました。明日はマイナス３度まで寒くなるらしい。
It was very wet and miserable today. As predicted it has gone colder and some areas in north of London and further north had some snow. It’ll get as cold as minus 3C here tomorrow. I didn’t go out today and spent most of the time in my craft room, so it was nice and warm.
今日の夕食は、しばらく前に作って余りを冷凍していたギリシャのコルフ島のお料理の、パスティサーダ（チキンのトマト煮込み）でした。（このお料理は作った時に詳しく書いています。）添えるのをご飯にしようか迷ったのですが、結局コルフ島の伝統のまま、パスタにしました。コルフ島で買って来た、ブッカティーニに似た太くて中が空洞になったパスタです。これだけだとお野菜が摂れないなぁ、と思いながらも、ここにお野菜を添えるのもおかしな感じだし前菜を作るのも面倒なのでそのまま。
Today’s dinner was Pastissada, which is a dish from Corfu in Greece, that we cooked and put in the freezer a little while ago. It’s basically chicken thighs in tomato sauce with spices and I wrote about this dish when we cooked it. I thought of having rice on the side rather than pasta but in the end we stuck to the tradition and had it with Greek pasta, which we bought in Corfu. It’s similar to Buccatini, thick pasta tubes with a hole down the middle. I thought there weren’t many vegetables in this but didn’t feel that any vegetable would really go with it ,and I couldn’t be bothered to cook a starter, so that was it.
ソースはとても美味しかったのですが、チキンは少し臭みがあったので夫に食べてもらい、わたしはパスタだけ食べました。チキンは多分ファームショップで買ったものだったと思うのですが。。。胸肉は大丈夫なのですが腿肉は時々臭みがあることがあります。パスタは美味しかったです。
The sauce was very tasty but the chicken was a little too gamy for me so I had just the pasta and I asked my husband to have my chicken as well. I think we bought the chicken thigh at a farm shop. I don’t usually have problem with chicken breast but sometimes have problem with chicken thighs. The pasta with the sauce was very tasty.
ただ、このパスタ、ピンピンしていてフォークで巻けないのでとっても食べにくかったです。伝統的にはこのパスタを使うそうですが、レストランではどこもショートパスタでしたし、スパイス屋さんとお話しした時にやはりショートパスタを使うとおっしゃっていたのは、食べにくいからかもと思います。
However, we found it very hard to eat this pasta because it was very springy even when it’s well cooked and you cannot twirl it with a fork. In Corfu, we noticed that all the restaurants we saw served this dish with short pasta and also the couple who were running the spice shop we stopped at also told us they use penne, probably because this more traditional pasta is quite hard to handle.
