Food topic

It's about time that I devote a few lines to one of the finer things in life - food.

It's midsummer, and with midsummer comes the traditional food feast. Since we are not spending it with my parents this year, and since we are all bringing our own food to where we will be going, I decided to forgo the typical herring and potato thing, it does very little for me anyway. Instead I bought a tuna steak, which I will marinate in soya sauce, fresh ginger and some lime juice, and which will be lightly grilled and deliciously pink in the middle. With that I'm making a potato salad, consisting of fresh potatoes, spring onions, dill and rucola, tossed in an olive oil, white wine vinegar and dijon mustard dressing. Very easy to make and very cheap, and since I spent a bloody fortune on the tuna that's a good thing.

I'm also planning to make something that Nigella Lawson made once. It's a watermelon and feta cheese salad. It's really simple, consisting of cut up watermelon, feta cheese in chunks and thinly sliced red onion with lime juice. The lime juice is supposed to take away from the bitter taste of the onion. I hope it's good. It certainly sounds it and I thought it's the perfect salad for a summer day.

For dessert I'm making a chocolate roll-up cake filled with butter and vanilla cream and chopped up Daim bars. I've made it before and it's really simple to make and usually very appreciated. I know I like it.

It's supposed to rain tomorrow, but I suppose that's ok. I'm used to it. If I can manage Vancouver winters, I can manage anything.