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Mood: cheerful

This is suitable for towel day because it's great for putting in tupperware to be stashed in your hitchhiking sack alongside your bottle of Old Janx Spirit to be warmed in a petrol station microwave at 3am, and also because it's the kind of orange you normally only see in 80's BBC scifi special effects.

It's suitable for vegetarians and has a reasonable amount of protein :)

You will need:

A slow cooker;
A chopping board and knife;
an orange zester (or the fine side of a box grater);
Some form of whizzer: I used a stick blender;
Optionally, a juicer, although I used my hands;
6 carrots;
6 oranges;
An onion;
100g red lentils
600ml veg stock;
1 tsp cumin, 1 tsp ground coriander, 1/4 an inch of fresh turmeric (1/2 tsp ground if you can't get fresh) for colour, and about an inch of fresh ginger;
salt and pepper to taste.

Method:

Roughly chop the onions, ginger, carrots and chuck them in the slow cooker.
Juice and zest the oranges directly into the slow cooker.
Add all your other ingredients and switch it on to low.
Come back in 8 hours and whizz it up till smooth.
Eat straight away, or store in tupperware; freezes well.

If you want to fancy this up for a starter or something, serve with a blob of extra thick cream or natural yoghurt and fresh chopped coriander leaves on top of it, and buttered, fresh baked crusty bread.

el_staplador

... For all the fish. Baked salmon.

Ingredients
2 salmon fillets
A couple of sprigs of fresh herbs (having no dill or fennel, I used lemon thyme)
Olive oil
Lemon juice
salt and pepper

Equipment
Oven
Kitchen foil (or, if it turns out when you start cooking that there's only 6" left, greaseproof paper and a stapler)
Roasting pan or similar

Method
Preheat oven to 200degC. Lay the foil in the roasting pan and put the salmon fillets on top. Lay the herbs over the top, season with salt and pepper and drizzle a little olive oil and lemon juice over. Fold the foil up into a parcel and cook in the oven for about 15 minutes.

I served it with rice and steamed runner beans.

norfolkian

Mood: geeky

Ford Prefect said: ‘I bought some peanuts.’
Arthur Dent moved, and groaned again, muttering incoherently.
'Here, have some,’ urged Ford, shaking the packet again, ‘if you’ve never been through a matter transference beam before you’ve probably lost some salt and protein. The beer you had should have cushioned your system a bit.’

For this challenge (which I LOVE, by the way), I took inspiration from the bit quoted above from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I largely followed this recipe from Jack Monroe for Beery Berry Crumble, but I did 50g oats and 50g crushed salted peanuts in the crumble (I roughly crushed the peanuts using a pestle and mortar). The texture and slight saltiness of the peanuts worked really well with the beery fruit. :)

I used dark muscavado sugar in the fruit mixture and white caster sugar in the crumble (as that's what I had in), but in my experience with crumbles golden caster sugar works really well in crumbles too.

A crumble fit for eating after going through a matter transference beam. :)

miss_s_b

Mood: celebratory

(you have NO IDEA how sad I am that this isn't challenge #42)

This Friday is Towel Day. So give me your best recipes that are wholly, vaguely, tangentially, or not at all related to the life and work of Douglas Adams.

Do you have a great Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster recipe*? Or Jinnantonix for that matter?
Is there some snack or protein bar or salad box that you would never forget to pack alongside your towel and your bottle of Ol Janx Spirit in your hitchhiking bag?
Did you invent a new recipe between the ages of 15 and 35 and you're hoping to get a career out of it?
Is there something you like to eat as you listen to the whooshing noise of deadlines passing by?**

Show me, please, what Hoopy Froods you are or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't***! Bonus points for anyone who posts a betowelled picture of themselves or their recipe.

* when I was at uni I used to drink in a bar where they served a version of a Pan Galactic. The recipe was "a shot of every spirit we keep behind the bar, yes including Blue Bols and Baileys, in a pint glass, topped up with cider". They charged £3.50 for it. It's a wonder I'm still alive. There is a semi-official Pan Galactic recipe, but somehow it seems to lack the old magic for me.
** Yes, this post is intentionally late in tribute to that quote.
*** Sadly you can no longer get your own Vogon Poetry here, but you can wonder what it might have been like from the text entry fields.

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