There are times in life when some things go into a sort of hiatus or hibernation, and teenagerdom brings its own challenges to family life and activities.
The Random Lunch Challenge almost disappeared from the menu over the Christmas break and continued with the boys starting High School.
Many requests for and inquiries about where it was prompted me to encourage my boys to run with the challenge again. Not only do others enjoy it, but they directly benefit.
They saw that.
So today, it was announced by boy 2 that he felt like bruschetta.
I threw out the challenge to make it a bit different from tomato bruschetta and very smartly he suggested smashed broad beans. Excitement was building:”With garlic and lemon and goats cheese”. We colluded.

Ciabatta rolls, goats cheese and broad beans (albeit frozen as we could not find fresh or tinned) were purchased for $7. We boiled the broad beans, drained them and crushed them with olive oil, half a clove of garlic and the juice of one lime (lemons are crazy expensive at the moment!!) The crushed beans were spooned onto toasted ciabatta, topped with chunks of goats cheese and briefly grilled. They were then drizzled with olive oil and topped with torn basil.
Bold, delicious flavours and nice and filling.