Archive for October, 2006
Chicken and Cabbage
Did I mention that we got a cabbage in our vegetable box again this week? For the fourth week in a row. I used to like cabbage. Maybe I’ll like it again one day but, at the moment, it’s up there with spinach as of my least favourite vegetables (I used to like [...]
Read More..>>British Sausage Week
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6101430.stm
But also National Vegan Week, what a strange coincidence. I know which one Fred and I will be supporting though.
Bang* goes the diet
*bang, like banger, geddit?
Happy Halloween
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Chorizo and Cabbage
Fred was given a huge (and really tasty) chorizo for his birthday and we were given a huge cabbage (again) by the vegetable box people so, in an effort to use up the cabbage, and just because we wanted to eat chorizo, we came up with the delight you see before you. Chorizo, fried [...]
Read More..>>British Tapas
Being my birthday, we decided to have a party. Ginger and I had been discussing the topic of “British Tapas” for quite a while and talking about what sorts of dishes (if any) would both fit this category and be delicious. So we decided to do some experimentation and invited some people round [...]
Read More..>>Beef Casserole
We cooked this as a wintery comfort-food dish and it worked out well. We cooked it in advance and ate it this evening after getting home from a rainy shopping, tube and bus experience. It was just the ticket.
While cooking it I thought that there was too much tomato in it, it has [...]
Cod and Tomato Sauce on Pasta
This wasn’t particularly successful. On its own, the tomato sauce was good. On its own, the fish was good. But put together, the tomato sauce overpowered the fish and the fish diluted the tomato sauce so nobody won. The pasta was good, but hard to pick up. Not sure what this sort of pasta is [...]
Read More..>>Art Deco Lamb Cutlets
It wasn’t quite my intention to create a strange-looking design on the plate, but after a gruelling trip to IKEA (my first in fact), it somehow seemed like the right thing to do. Trimmed lamb cutlets with some steamed new potatoes and green beans. I added loads of butter to the potatoes and [...]
Read More..>>Pocky!
Last night we went to dinner in Chinatown and dined on various Shanghai specialties at eCapital. No alcohol-affected trip to Chinatown is complete without a post-dinner pocky trip. We visited two super-happy-fun pocky stockists and chose a selection of their finest offerings. From left to right in the picture: Men’s pocky, almond [...]
Read More..>>Garlic Bread and Almost-Pizza
After our successful pizza last weekend, we decided to attempt another one. We had since invested (!) in a pizza stone and were keen to see how pizzas baked on it compared to those on the metal tray.
I followed the recipe exactly. Same recipe as last time. To the last detail. [...]