Archive for October, 2007
Smoked Salmon Pate
After our recent success with mackerel pate, we decided to try smoked salmon pate for lunch today. We used half poached salmon and half smoked salmon, which we mixed with a spoon of crème fraîche and some lemon juice and seasoned with salt and cayenne pepper. I wasn’t convinced at first, but with [...]
Read More..>>Rocket Pesto
Last night, we used some of the rocket pesto from the freezer but mixed it with some roasted tomatoes and some Emmett’s bacon that we bought when we were in Suffolk. The roasted tomatoes acted much like a tomato sauce and I think we’ll use this method when we next need some instead of [...]
Read More..>>Stuffed Lamb
I was out after work this evening so Fred was in charge of dinner. I got home to the smell of something sweet and roasty which turned out to be roasted sweet potato. This was the accompaniment to some brilliant stuffed lamb fillets which he served with roasted red pepper and, of course, [...]
Read More..>>Squid, Scallop, Salmon and Prawn Stir-Fry…with Oysters
We’d vaguely planned a fish stir-fry for dinner this evening and Fred volunteered to go shopping for the ingredients. I’d imagined some kind of white fish or possibly some salmon but he came home with a big bag from the fishmonger which included all of the above.
He sauteed off the fish first before removing [...]
Beef Casserole - take two
I can be pretty fickle when it comes to food - quite often I find something I love and I want to eat it all the time, other times I might think something is brilliant but eat it once and then not want to eat it again. Tonight was one of those nights. [...]
Read More..>>Beef Casserole
Strangely, on Saturday Kitchen yesterday morning, they cooked some Thai food (a Phad Thai with approximately a thousand scallops… mmmmm!) and also beef casserole. This fitted in rather well with our plans for the weekend, as we had been planning Thai food last night and beef casserole today. Spooky really. Anyway, we [...]
Read More..>>Thai Banquet
We’d been planning to go to Oriental City last night and buy ingredients for a Thai banquet; we didn’t end up going but managed to scavenge enough ingredients from the shops of Fulham to put it together anyway.
First up were prawn crackers. Friends of ours had actually bought these for us from Oriental City [...]
Chelsea Market
I went to Chelsea Market today for the first time despite living just down the road. Fred and I are really spoilt by having a great deli, butcher and fishmonger just around the corner from us so we don’t tend to venture out to specialist shops and markets much anymore as we seem to [...]
Read More..>>Sake-Steamed Sea Bass with Ginger
After recent attempts at Japanese cooking, we tried again. This time, we tried sake-steamed sea bass with ginger. I’ve been getting used to going to our fishmonger, buying a whole fish and proudly heading home with it as if I’d caught it myself, then barbecuing or roasting it whole. I bought a [...]
Read More..>>Macaroni Cheese
I’ve never had macaroni cheese before so thought it would be interesting to give it a go given that I love pasta and I love cheese. We used a Nigel Slater recipe from Kitchen Diaries (I love this book but haven’t cooked from it before) that included Dijon and wholegrain mustard and had a [...]
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