It’s taken me longer than anticipated to order from Eatwell – the collective was brought together in the first lockdown, people brought together by a want to help. A want to change the food inequality that exists, and was met through the medium of, well, food.
Not just food delivered to hungry tummies during lockdown(s), but to paying customers in their homes too. A way for you and me to enjoy restaurant style food and drink at home through their marketplace. Full kits, veggie boxes, snacks and drinks from your favourite traders, in one place.
Though it took us a while to order from Eatwell, when we did, we went with a fantastic treat. Eddie Shepherd (aka Veggie Chef), well known for his home based restaurant The Walled Gardens, was revisiting his time in Mexico with an at home taco kit. A limited number of kits would be made available, and it was very much first come first served.
You can bet I was close to the front of that queue. Dining at Eddie’s is always popular and has been ‘on our list’ for what feels like forever. Seeing as lockdown was delaying that even further, this was an easy way to get our grubby little mitts on his cooking, sooner rather than later.
Unsurprisingly, it was bloody delicious.
Along with a generous number of homemade tacos, all ready for the pan, and delicious rich chilli (also a generous portion – enough that we could have some for breakfast too), came a tangy gooseberry salsa, crunchy sliced and pickled onion, Little Gem lettuce, cheese, home made hot sauce, coriander emulsion, and lime. Oh and pudding too, but more on that later.
The tacos were heavenly – and thanks to a non-stick pan, we had very few casualties – after that it was a case of slicing the lettuce, warming the chilli, and serving.
Once I’d tested one of them for quality control of course.
The generosity of flavour, and size didn’t stop there. The aforementioned pudding?
An incredibly rich chocolate mousse, lime sugar and honeycomb. A very grown up version of a Crunchie bar. I’ll admit, the chocolate totally overfaced me, but the honeycomb? There was not a grain of sugar left. And I have no regrets.
Whilst this was released as a bit of a one off, I really hope it isn’t. Authentic flavours, easy to prepare at home, and generous portions?
Eddie, any chance you’d do it again?