Archive for December, 2007
Roast Lamb
Today we decided on roast lamb for dinner. We didn’t have any anchovies and neither did any of our local shops so we bought some anchovy paste as an alternative and mixed it with rosemary and garlic before spreading on top of the lamb. It worked brilliantly and resulted in tender, tasty lamb. [...]
Read More..>>Smoked Trout Pate and Guacamole
Although we should have been eating salad last night, we didn’t. Instead, we had some smoked trout pate (smoked trout, cream cheese, lemon juice, s&p, cayenne) with brown bread and some guacamole (made to our usual recipe) with nachos.
Read More..>>Salad
Tonight we had salad. It wasn’t worthy of a picture. If we go quiet for a while you’ll know it’s because we’re eating salad. See you soon
Read More..>>Boxing Day Bubble and Squeak
Unsurprisingly, we had a huge amount of leftover food on Boxing Day. This pleased me though because as much as I love Christmas lunch, I also love, love, love leftovers. Particularly leftovers that can be turned into Bubble and Squeak. Luckily I’m not alone, my family agree (my mum says it was [...]
Read More..>>Christmas Lunch
We spent Christmas with my mum and cooked lunch for the three of us there. As there was only the three of us we had chicken instead of turkey which we prefer anyway.
The chicken was cooked in our usual way, rubbed with oil and salt and pepper and stuffed with herbs, lemon, onion and [...]
Mackerel Tart
On Christmas Eve, we travelled to my mum’s and took along with us the ingredients to make mackerel tart. We forgot the cream though so had to make do with milk which worked ok but resulted in a slightlier runnier tart than normal.
Sweat off some onions and garlic, add mackerel, spinach, Feta, s&p, nutmeg [...]
Pre-Christmas Dinner
Yesterday, Ginger and I visited my sister’s family, where we had a sort of pre-Christmas dinner. To start with, my sister cooked some asparagus wrapped in Parma ham. These were cooked in the oven until the ham was just a bit crispy, which turned out rather well.
For main course, we had brought along [...]
Pork and Paprika Casserole
This was a Spanish-inspired dish, but not made from any particular recipe. Winter has very definitely set in and we have been craving all sorts of comfort stodge, which is unfortunately at odds with our attempts at eating healthily. This dish seemed like it would give us the comfort factor without the calorie-high [...]
Read More..>>Chicken and Roasted Vegetables
Fred bought some chicken legs and thighs for a casserole a couple of weeks ago but we didn’t get round to making it so froze them. In an effort to clear out the fridge before Christmas, we used them up this evening.
We browned the chicken pieces before adding them to some vegetables, wine and [...]
Pigeon Casserole
This didn’t turn out brilliantly as we over-cooked the pigeon, shame because everything else was brilliant.
Brown pigeon and remove from the pan (we forgot to do this)
Saute lardons, onions, garlic, celery and carrot
Return browned pigeon to the pan, add red wine, stock and herbs (we used thyme, bay, parsley and parsley stalks)
Bring to the boil [...]