Archive for June, 2008
Roast Loin of Pork
Roast pork is my favourite but we don’t eat it that often (1 April 2007 according to the archives) so I was really looking forward to lunch today and I wasn’t disappointed. The meat was tender and tasty and produced fantastic, crackly crackling - we achieved this by leaving the meat uncovered in the [...]
Read More..>>Aubergine Parmigiana
I had this for lunch recently and really enjoyed it so yesterday, we decided to try making our own using Jamie Oliver’s recipe from Jamie’s Italy.
We were somewhat underwhelmed by it though, the flavours were good but I don’t think we griddled the aubergines for long enough as they were still slightly tough. [...]
Epoisses and Salami
Last night, we’d planned to go food shopping and pick up something for dinner while we were there. There seemed to be an awful lot of traffic though so we decided to postpone our trip, we couldn’t however postpone our hunger so opted to pick up some snacks from the deli instead. We [...]
Read More..>>Tortilla
Fred made this at the weekend and has been eating it for lunches during the week. There are lots of different recipes for tortilla and many variations on the fillings but the method remains fairly constant:
Finely slice potatoes and onions, fry slowly in olive oil
Mix together five eggs, season, add to potato and [...]
Pasta Amatriciana
Today was a fairly typical Tuesday, it got to 4.30 and we didn’t have anything planned for dinner. Fred still isn’t feeling very well and I have tooth ache so neither of us were particularly in the mood for cooking. This usually means we eat pasta so, rather than rely on one of [...]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
Fred hasn’t been feeling very well this weekend and suggested roast chicken for lunch today. It turned out to be a lovely, warm day which would have been perfect for barbecuing but we already had our chicken so decided to stick to our original plan.
It’s not the most exciting meal, we eat it a [...]
Mexican Barbecue
We rather enjoy having themed barbecues rather than just buying a load of assorted dead animals and throwing them onto the fire. In collaboration with some friends, we decided that a Mexican themed barbecue would definitely be worth doing. So we invited them round, did some hunting for appropriate recipes and got started.
For [...]
Sausage and Mash Pie
A couple of weeks ago, Fred had a Higgidy pie for dinner which was really good. While wandering around the supermarket last night wondering what to eat, we remembered that they also made a sausage and mash pie which we were both intrigued by. We picked one up and by the time we’d [...]
Read More..>>Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes, Broad Beans and Mint
Ginger and I had been talking about other things to do with pasta and broad beans. We have loads of mint growing in our garden too and thought that would work well with it. Ginger was out this evening though, so I threw something together quickly.
I sweated some onions and garlic, [...]
Lamb Rump and Champ
We had lots of potatoes and cabbage to use up this week and when we found some spring onions lurking in the fridge, the sensible option seemed to be to make champ. It’s a rather wintery dish for this time of year but it worked brilliantly with the lamb. The spring onions really [...]
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