eri's epic cooking adventures

For two years now, I've been on an on-going quest for delicious food that is easy to make. Of course I can cook basic pasta and rice dishes, and of course I can make things like tea, sandwiches, toast, instant noodles, and frozen pizza. Sometimes, however, I like the feeling of making something slightly more complex and knowing that I cooked it myself. It's a lovely feeling. I also completely lack an attention span and I'm very, very lazy, so I can't cook anything very difficult or very slow.

My experiment today was Eri's Couscous Thing. It's only been a couple of hours so I don't have a better name for it, I'm sorry. Anyway, I read about yogurt and black pepper sauce and I wanted to make something with it. I didn't have a recipe so I had to improvise the sauce, and find things that went well with it. Enjoy.

Ingredients:
- Couscous
- Yogurt. Use whichever kind you prefer. Plain is probably best.
- Salt
- Pepper (I used black pepper)
- Garlic (I used the powder thing)
- Lemon juice
- Parsley (optional)
- Rucola
- Whatever else you want to add. I was going to use lentils, but I ran out of lentils and there were none at the supermarket sooo I had to use black beans instead (I used the kind that doesn't have a very strong flavour)

How To:
1. Cook the couscous.

2. While the couscous is cooking, mix the yogurt + black pepper + garlic + lemon juice + salt. You can add the parsley now or at the end, whichever you prefer. Beat it all together using a blender, an egg whisk, or your Hitachi (if you go for the latter, please wash it. Please). I prefer it if the yogurt isn't overpowering and the black pepper and lemon juice are noticeable but balanced (the salt and garlic shouldn't be strong at all), but your mileage may vary.

3. Make a layer of couscous, place the beans on top, and then the rucola. Add the sauce. Take a picture. Mix everything together and enjoy.

NOTE: I guess you can add more ingredients if you like. I didn't measure the ingredients before adding them - I was cooking for myself so I just used as much couscous/beans/rucola as I felt I wanted to eat, and I kept tasting the sauce to make sure it was just about right. I'm sorry.