Jamie Oliver-esque Moment

Inspired by Jamie Does ... Andalucia today, I decided to take a trip through Cork's very lovely English Market and purchase some chorizo and vine tomatoes to attempt to make his Tomato and Chorizo salad. Did I succeed? Will the kitchen survive my attempts at cooking, albeit salad making!

Here's the before shot:


As you can see, the ingredients are fairly basic and came in quite affordably too.

1. Heat up some olive oil and add in the chorizo.
2. Chop the tomatoes, nice and rough, nothing too neat.
3. To the chopped tomatoes (in a bowl preferably!) add chopped shallot, chopped flat leaf parsley or basil, salt and pepper. Leave to rest.
4. To the now nicley charred chorizo, add some chopped garlic. I added chilli too, but the chorizo is nice and spicy too so depends if you like heat or not. I do!
5. Add the chorizo, garlic, chilli and oil to the tomatoes.
6. Serve!

I served mine with a gorgeous 7 Grain Bread, (Oh how I wish this had been made by me, but no, English Market to the rescue here) and some brie or goats cheese.

Here's the finished product!



I am pleased to say the kitchen though now covered in dishes, smells delicious and is still in one piece!