Archive for November, 2006
Ostriches with CHEESY-LEEKY-BUTTERY-MASHED-POTATOES with Cauliflower and Peas
We’re moving on Friday. To a better flat but a smaller freezer. This is painful for me. I like to freeze things for emergencies. Part of the getting-used-to-not-having-a-freezer has been using up all the old stuff, which has been good because a lot of it I had forgotten was there. I figure you’re not so [...]
Read More..>>Pasta and Pesto with Bacon and Broad Beans
The normal vegetable box saga has been replaced with the freezer saga. We’re moving next week and therefore need to use up the contents of the freezer. It’s been ok so far, I’m not sure how we’re going to get through the never-ending supply of bacon but that should make next week interesting.
Tonight, we ticked [...]
Sausages and Mash
Today it was really cold on the way home. Which meant that we had very little choice other than to have sausages and mash for dinner. So Cumberland sausages with mustardy mash and onion and red wine gravy it was. We had winter greens and brocolli (not pictured) too. The [...]
Read More..>>Lamb Kofta Sandwich
I was really lucky again this evening - arriving home to the smell of something delicious cooking. Ginger had made lamb koftas, fried halloumi and aubergine. I put this all into a toasted pita bread along with some lettuce and tomato to make a sandwich. It was really tasty and just what [...]
Read More..>>My Pie!
Ginger was at home today and when I got back from work she had cooked a pie. Not just any pie, it said “Fred’s Pie” in letters on the crust. It was brilliant. And not only did it look brilliant, it tasted brilliant too. Because I’m nice, I let Ginger have [...]
Read More..>>Bacon and Leek Gratin
We had four leeks to use up and, having discussed various things to do with them, decided on a sort-of gratin. It contained leeks, lardons, potatoes, cheese, creme fraiche, milk, nutmeg and salt and pepper.
It was really good, we had it with winter greens and I think we’ll have it again very soon.
Cheese
As is quite usual for a Friday, Fred and I both had big lunches. Unusually, there was a food fair near our office at which there was a good selection of cheeses. We bought Godminster Cheddar and Vacherin Mont d’Or. So, that’s what we had to eat this evening, with a selection [...]
Read More..>>Lentils and Pizza Toast…
…but not together, obviously.
Fred had the lentilly thing because they’re just too hippy for me, I had the pizza toast because, well…any excuse really Pizza toast was just half a cook-at-home ciabatta loaf with cheese and the last of the birthday chorizo. As tasty as ever. Can’t remember what Fred did to [...]
Beef Burgundy
I cooked this on Monday night, we were supposed to eat it last night but we went out and there was food there. We had it for lunch today, it wasn’t bad as a first attempt but needs some more thought. This is the recipe I followed:
Burgundy Beef
1 pack braising steak
Butter
Olive oil
1 [...]
NOT Roasted Sweet Potato, Roasted Jerusalem Artichokes and Chorizo
Tonight, I attemped to cook roasted sweet potato, roasted Jerusalem artichokes and chorizo. I washed the vegetables, peeled them, steamed them and put them into the oven to roast….then promptly forgot about them while I was making casserole for tomorrow night’s dinner. By the time I remembered them, they were stuck and dried [...]
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