Archive for October, 2007
Liver and Bacon
For a while we’ve been wondering if there was anything particularly Halloweeny that we could cook tonight. Eventually, we gave up and decided to have liver and bacon. Ginger picked up some calve’s liver from the butcher as well as some rather nice bacon. We fried the bacon first, then cooked the [...]
Read More..>>Lamb Chops with Red Onion Reduction
That sounds a bit “cheffy” doesn’t it but I don’t know what else to call this. We bought some lamb chops to eat last night but weren’t hungry enough and ended up eating cheese instead. We’d planned to have them tonight with sauteed potatoes but a friend of mine suggested this instead. [...]
Read More..>>Things en Croute
Last night we had an informal dinner party of sorts. I had four consecutive vintages of the same wine that I’d bought on trips to South Africa and wanted an excuse to open them all at once and do a comparative tasting. So this was the excuse for it. More on that [...]
Read More..>>Spaghetti with Parma Ham, Tomatoes and Mozarella
Another looong day at work today but I came home to find Fred busy in the kitchen. I’d had an idea that the combination of roasted tomatoes, mozarella and parma ham would work well with spaghetti so we picked up the ingredients and put it together tonight. Neither of us had much time [...]
Read More..>>Dinner Diary - One Year On
I had a loooong day at work today and Fred went out so there was nothing of note happening chez Fred and Ginger (unless a much-needed glass of wine and a slice of Marmite toast counts?)
So, as I’m sitting here I thought I’d post anyway and started thinking about one of my favourite things about [...]
Sea Bream Marinated in White Miso
A few weeks back on Saturday Kitchen, Nic Watt cooked Sea Bream Marinated in White Miso. I have been obsessing about it ever since and we ended up buying white miso and mirin when we came across them in anticipation of making it. Last night I made the marinade and put the badly [...]
Read More..>>Lamb Stuffed with Couscous
It was only last week that we tried lamb stuffed with couscous, but we decided to try it again as we had enjoyed it so much.
Much the same this time: lamb fillets stuffed with a mixture of couscous (hydrated with chicken stock), pine nuts, parsely and mint with a sprinkle of cinnamon. We didn’t [...]
Guinea Fowl Casserole
As we seem to have been having chicken a fair amount lately, when the urge to cook chicken again struck us, we figured that guinea fowl would be an interesting alternative. We cooked this yesterday to eat today - a fairly standard casserole with the jointed guinea fowl, onion, celery, chicken stock, a dash [...]
Read More..>>Rice Pudding
I made a rice pudding yesterday and almost burnt my mouth in my hurry to taste it as soon as it came out of the oven. Although it was hot, it wasn’t long before I realised I’d forgotten to add the sugar. I managed to rescue it today though by re-heating some with [...]
Read More..>>Toad in the Hole
Today was the last day of British Sausage Week, so we obviously had to have sausages as we haven’t had any yet this week. We bought some herby pork sausages from our local butcher and made toad in the hole. From what I can remember, it’s the first time we’ve made it. [...]
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