Full of Greens fritters recipe for Mum!

In my Summer tasks list, I said I wanted to cook dinner for my Mum. Embarrassingly, since not living with my Mum, I haven't really cooked her dinner/lunch somehow. We've been out for lunch but it was only in February that I cooked her steak for lunch and she commented that it was the first time I had cooked her something. 

She's subsequently been round for my party but I did want for us to cook for her so I invited her round the first Thursday of the holiday.

She is a big vegetable eater so I decided that we would make her a recipe from our favourite veggie recipe-maker, Anna Jones- her Full of Greens fritters (recipe can be found HERE) .  I had a glut of courgettes from the school garden and we had two packs of feta left from our party that weren't used (in fact, I was going to make these!) 

I DO take umbrage her saying in the link above, that these make their way from chopping board to table in 10 minutes. I was grating, chopping, zesting and grating for a good half an hour.

 Shredding the spinach alone took a while. Grating the courgettes was WONDERFULLY quick though!

You've probably heard this tip before but I tend to zest lemons that we have juiced (CBC likes to use them in all his cooking) and freeze them in a box.  You can see I also zested a lime too in the same box- just makes it easier to do them all at once.

 Here was the mixture of feta, spinach, courgette and Parmesan pre-eggs.

As is often the case with guests, I will do all the chopping and preparing and washing up and leave CBC to do the actual cooking.

The recipe made 12 of these fritters and they were delicious! I recommend them.

 It was en extremely hot day when Mum came round and we decided to eat in our dining room/front room which we have only ever used to serve the buffet for our party.  We discovered it was the coolest room in the house, being north-facing and I have subsequently been crafting in here.

So, that was the first time we ate at our dining room table (usually we eat at the kitchen table). We served the lunch with brown crusty bread, carrot and orange and then a leafy salad.  Mum was delighted to be cooked for, especially healthy meat-free meals, so I was glad to have invited her round.  Here's to many more!

Would you eat the fritters?

xx