Archive for September, 2007
Chicken Stir-Fry
Chicken stir-fry. Again. We’re not winning any prizes for originality with this one are we? It’s the best way I know to use up leftover chicken though and since Fred bought a super-chicken yesterday, we had to do something. It is tasty though and quick to throw together, which is a definite [...]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
Mmmmmmm roast chicken. A Label Anglaise chicken from our local butcher, roasted and served with roast potatoes, runner beans, savoy cabbage and carrots. And those strange things on the top left of the picture are jerusalem artichokes; they look deep fried but they were done with the potatoes. And gravy of course. [...]
Read More..>>Barbecue
Tonight, after a quick wander around Borough market and the Thames Festival we barbecued some scallops and some bass. The scallops were enormous but really tasty and we finally found a use for the shells that have been hanging around for ages.
The bass was simply stuffed with lemon, parsley and garlic and served with [...]
Read More..>>Hamburger
Last night we had a quick supper of hamburgers which we ate while the rubgy was on. Minced beef, grated onion, salt and pepper with a splash of red wine. Served with lettuce, cheese and tomato. Super quick and yummy.
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Thai Green Curry
We went through a phase of eating this almost every week because we’d found a recipe that was really tasty. We don’t eat it quite so often anymore but both Fred and I have been craving it for a while. Luckily, we had some paste that we’d made previously in the fridge (eat [...]
Read More..>>Steak and Chips
I’ve been going on about steak for a while. So when I started a new job on Monday, Ginger decided to buy some steak as a “happy new job” present. We had it tonight with chips (Marks & Spencer ready-made oven chips which were pretty good) and green beans and some cherry tomatoes [...]
Read More..>>Barbecue
The weather report claimed that we were going to have sun yesterday and it didn’t work out that way, but we had planned to barbecue so we went ahead.
We started with prawns which we’ve done a few times before and we marinated them in oil, lemon, garlic and chilli as we usually do. Then [...]
Carrots!
So, we tried to grow a lot of our own vegetables this year but sadly, while we were on holiday, there was a freak hailstorm and almost everything died. One of the things that survived was the small pot of Chatenay carrots. We didn’t think much would happen with them but we’ve continued [...]
Read More..>>Beef and Water Chestnut Stir Fry
Ginger wanted to cook water chestnuts tonight and we didn’t have any and Waitrose didn’t have any when she went shopping there. So I volunteered to get some on the way home. I visited about 10 shops on the way home and only found them in the last one. I hadn’t thought they’d [...]
Read More..>>Salmon Pasta
I found this recipe on the BBC Good Food site today while looking for a simple dessert. It sounded interesting: salmon, lemon juice, horseradish and creme fraiche. Fred is out tonight so simple seemed the way to go.
It was ok but the flavours were just a bit wrong. I like horseradish with [...]