Archive for November, 2006
Roast Chicken
Legend has it that Fred’s roast chicken is responsible for turning vegetarians into meat-eaters. I can well believe it.
I travelled two and a half hours across London this evening, when I arrived home I was greeted by the inviting smell of a roasting chicken. It was a Waitrose organic, lovingly salted 24 hours in advance [...]
Steak and Mash
I have a weakness for mash. Especially mustardy, buttery mash. So I am quite happy to have it with almost anything. Ginger was out yesterday evening, so I had steak with mustardy, buttery mash. The mash was really good. The steak was average; I should have been more selective when [...]
Read More..>>Beef Casserole and Baked Camembert
A couple of days ago we decided to make a casserole for future consumption. Where “future” means “after a night out and are really hungry but can’t be bothered to cook”. The night out in question was last night and I had a small helping then, but we ate the rest of it [...]
Read More..>>Chorizo and Curly Kale
Thursday is vegetable-box delivery day, which means Wednesday is inevitably using-up-last-week’s-vegetables day. Tonight, we had a surplus of curly kale (we have courgettes and spinach too but let’s not talk about that) so we combined that, with Fred’s birthday chorizo, some cream, onions and salt and pepper.
It was good, quite similar to the Cabbage [...]
Pizza Toast
After a very boring evening of ironing and packing away my summer clothes, there wasn’t much time left for cooking so, I made my very special cheese on toast. Organic white bread (unsliced so I can get just the right thickness) toasted, spread with a small amount of tomato pesto, topped with chorizo, mature [...]
Read More..>>Bubble and Squeak
Another of my favourite meals from when I was small, this time made with leftover roast potatoes and curly kale. Served with leftover pork belly. It was tasty but teeny. Fred is raiding the fridge as we speak.
Read More..>>Chocolate Spread on Toast
It’s not big, and it’s not clever, but boy does it taste good
Read More..>>Pork Belly
Fred had pork belly for lunch last week and it was really tasty so we decided to try cooking our own. We bought the pork belly from the Ginger Pig yesterday and, before we went out to watch the fireworks, we poured boiling water and cider vinegar onto the skin, then refrigerated it over [...]
Read More..>>Fried Egg with Bubble and Squeak
For breakfast this morning, Fred had a fried egg with the leftover mashed potatoes and curly kale from last night. He fried the mashed potatoes, so they were a sort of bubble and squeak.
Read More..>>Banger and Mash-and-Carrots-and-Kale
Bonfire night. Have to have bangers and mash according to Ginger. I heartily endorse this idea. So before a delay-ridden and noisy teenager-ridden bus trip to Alexandra Palace to watch fireworks, we tucked into this meal. The sausages were sage and onion (and pork, obviously) from the Ginger Pig. They [...]
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