Turkey Fillets with Anchovy, Gherkin and Dill (or not!) and Mustard Caper Sauce for Broccoli

Well I have to tell you I was looking forward to coming home from work and making this dinner. Then my GO train was delayed. I sat on the train for over an hour - engrossed in my book I'm reading so it wasn't sooo bad. Then (after being on the train for over an hour) I heard that all traffic on the train line was shut down until further notice. That's when I decided to bail on the train - we were given one LAST chance to get off. So I made a break for it. A $50 cab ride later and I was home around 730. FYI - I'd left work at 4:45!!!! So as you can imagine all enthusiam had left me. I was down right starving by the time I got home. Normally in this situation I would have bought a sub for dinner but I'd splashed all over FB that I was making a recipe tonight so I felt committed.

Good thing it's Nigella EXPRESS I'm thinking to myself.

So I finally get started making dinner and I pull out all the ingredients and line them up. I hadn't picked up the fresh dill for this because I thought I'd just use some dried dill rather than by an entire bunch only to use 3 sprigs. Well, as it turns out I don't have any dried dill. "So What" I think to myself. "the dill is not going to make or break this recipe". So the dill was omitted. Everything came together really fast though - fast enough that I didn't break into the hummus like a fiend which is my normal behaviour when I can't stand the hunger anymore. The one thing that kind of had me wondering was that my anchovies wouldn't "melt" for the life of me. But the turkey cooked fast -I was lucky to find some pre-beaten turkey breast so that made it even faster. So I decided to ignore my non-melting anchovies. I also decided to make a tofu verion of this too to try for the veggie readers. The Vermouth Sauce was a blessing after my taxi bill home - to be completely honest I even took a swig out to the bottle of vermouth to help ease the pain of the commute home.

The mustard sauce on the broccoli was sooooo freakin good. I could easily have eaten an entire head of broccoli with this sauce on it. I will definitly make that again. The tofu was pretty freakin tasty too. As a matter of fact I would even suggest putting the mustard sauce on tofu - that would be delicious also. - Yum imagine you put cubed tofu in the broccoli with and a healthy covering of this sauce..sounds like delicious!

Back to the meal though..If you're really hungry I would also serve a starch with this meal - I didn't make one because I was in a rush - but I did eat not only a piece of turkey but also some tofu too - so that's why it was more filling for me.

And now for the grand finale of the kind of day I've had - Husband just pointed out to me that I made this recipe with SARDINES and not anchovies!!!! Hence the no melting!!!! But it still was good. Though the anchovies likely would have been better. I'm sure I'll make this recipe again becasue I did enjoy it - but I'll make it with the dill and the anchovies. - Now I'm going to either A-find that bottle of vermouth again or B- go exercise my anxieties away..I'm not sure which I'll do yet....