Archive for August, 2008
Roast Lamb with Caper Sauce and Boulangere Potatoes
We don’t seem to have had roast lamb for a while, so chose it for today. Ginger cut little pockets into our lamb leg and stuffed them with garlic, rosemary and anchovies.
We also cooked boulangere potatoes, which are thinly sliced potatoes layered with thinly sliced onions and herbs and then cooked with [...]
Steak!
Ginger was out tonight, so I selfishly treated myself to some steak. Actually, I’d been to gym on the way home and was really very hungry when I went shopping for dinner afterwards. So steak and mustard mash it was. There was also tenderstem broccoli, but that didn’t make it into the [...]
Read More..>>Summer Pudding
We’ve made summer pudding twice recently and took a number of photographs while we did so, so here are some step-by-step, illustrated instructions in case anyone is interested in making it and hasn’t done so before.
Summer pudding is quite simple to make, but it does require some forward planning. In fact, it needs to [...]
Crunchy Pork Chops
We first ate these at a friend’s house and really enjoyed them so decided to cook them ourselves. It’s a fairly straightforward recipe by Nigella who suggests eating them with garlic spinach and a tomato salad. We had them with mustard mashed potatoes and runner beans. The mustard in the mashed potatoes [...]
Read More..>>Baked Mackerel and Poor Man’s Potatoes
Yesterday we bought some whole mackerel and planned to do something interesting with it this evening. We have loads of thyme growing in our garden so we thought we’d use up some of that and Ginger found a really good sounding recipe. However, when we got home and started making it, we found [...]
Read More..>>Thai Monday: Lemongrass Beef and Tom Yum Goong
As it was a Bank Holiday today and we had plenty of time, we decided to cook some Thai dishes. We’ve done the lemongrass beef several times before and it’s one of our favourites. To go with it we decided on Tom Yum Goong.
Both dishes are quick to prepare which makes a refreshing [...]
Roast Pork
Yesterday we had friends over for lunch and cooked roast pork with stuffing, roast potatoes, cabbage, leeks, carrots and peas. We also deep-fried some sage leaves and served these with the pork. I’d had these earlier in the week at a really good pub but ours didn’t turn out the same way. [...]
Read More..>>Pizza!
Pizza tonight! We made the dough, then went shopping while it rose and when we got home, all we needed to do was heat up the oven, add the ingredients and cook them. Ginger made a tomato sauce by cooking down some cherry tomatoes with garlic and oil, which worked rather well.
The first [...]
Read More..>>Stir Fried Snow Peas
Usually I call these “sugar snap peas” but this was a Chinese style dish and they’re generally called “snow peas” in Chinese restaurants
Ginger was out this evening and I worked late and just wanted something quick when I got home. At one point on the journey I had decided on fish fingers, [...]
Orecchiette Puttanesca
Ginger made some puttanesca sauce on Sunday and there was some left over, so I had it tonight as she was out. I had it with some orecchiette; usually we have it with spaghetti but I thought I’d experiment and the experiment turned out rather well.
It didn’t look that orange in real life; I [...]