take a little squid and put it in a salad (carrot salad!)

Grating. What isn't better when grated than chopped or whole? Grated cheese - better. Grated apple - better. Grated carrot - amazing. Grated chocolate - pretty tasty.

So.. grated carrot salad with middle-eastern-ish flavours and grilled squid. Pretty damn special.

Thanks again to smitten kitchen for the inspiration.

Sorry that the picture is so rubbish.. maybe, one day i will fix it. Maybe not!

Try this.

Tonight

This served 3 of us

3 large carrots, grated

2 tbsp flat leaf parsely, chopped

2 tbsp mint, chopped

100g feta, crumbled

3 tbsp flaked almonds, toasted in a pan until delicious and golden

2 large squid, tentacles included cut into bite sized pieces and scored

2 tbsp olive oil

2 crushed cloves garlic

1 tsp caraway seeds

1 1/2 tsp cumin seeds

1 tsp smoked paprika

1 1/2 tsp harissa (find it in your gourmet deli)

3 tbsp lemon juice

Pita bread and rocket leaves to serve

In a pestle and mortar combine and bash the garlic, caraway, cumin, paprika. In a small pan mix together the oil, garlic paste and harissa. Heat over very low heat until fragrant. Pour into a small bowl. When cool-ish add the lemon juice and season to taste with salt and pepper.

Pour a couple of tbsp of dressing over the squid. Marinate at room temperature for 10-20 minutes (or not at all depending on how time pressed you are).

Mix together the carrots, herbs, almonds and feta.

Fry the squid in 1tsp oil over very high heat until just cooked. Dress the salad. You will probably not need all the dressing.

Serve the squid over the salad with pita bread and rocket leaves. Delicious