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Beef and Oyster Pie
This week is British Pie Week and with not a lot planned for dinner this weekend, we were grateful for the suggestion. This was actually supposed to be tomorrow’s lunch but we ended up swapping things around since tonight’s planned dish needed to spend some time in the freezer to tenderise, more on that [...]
Read More..>>Brilliant Pizza
We have been making pizza on and off for a few years now, with varying levels of success. There were a couple of times when we did pretty well and thought we had definitely cracked it, but haven’t been able to keep it consistent. With our old not very hot oven we had [...]
Read More..>>Chillied Tortilla Soup and Chilli-Seasoned Pot Roasted Pork
So, to go with the tortillas we made earlier, we decided on a soup to start and something to fill them later. We had originally considered three courses all using tortillas but that seemed a little much when it actually came down to it.
We actually started with some pork scratchings and guacamole, inspired by [...]
Homemade Tortillas
It’s been a while since we had a weekend at home without any plans. Since before Christmas in fact. My favourite way to spend a Saturday is to eat breakfast in bed while watching Saturday Kitchen, followed by an afternoon in the kitchen which is exactly what we did today.
Since we [...]
Read More..>>Chicken, Chickpeas and Chorizo
I can’t remember how we decided on chickpeas, but I do remember that after we decided we then thought that we didn’t have any. So I checked in the cupboard and we did have them, so that was lucky and we soaked some of them yesterday ready for today. We made this up [...]
Read More..>>Mexican Steak and Green Poblano Rice
For a while now we have been cooking Mexican food on and off. We started with the usual fajitas, tacos, chill con carne, guacamole, etc, using recipes that friends had recommended or that we had found somewhere on the world wide internets. While some of these turned out really well, we eventually felt [...]
Read More..>>Colston Bassett Stilton
Yes, we did eat rather a lot last night but it was unavoidable. We put some samples of Colston Bassett Stilton out for customers to try in the shop yesterday afternoon and the smell drove me so mad that I had to buy some to take home. It isn’t Scottish cheese so it [...]
Read More..>>Haggis Sausage Rolls
Last year, we made Scottage Pie, using haggis as the filling. It was a partial success but the inside (which was purely haggis) was a little too dry and dense.
This year, we thought about doing the same again but combining the haggis with some kind of mince. Somewhere along the way, [...]
Cheese and Marmite Crumpets
Helen’s recent post about homemade crumpets coincided with the rekindling of our love for them. We eat them now and again but not regularly, once we’ve got through one packet though it usually isn’t too long until we reach for another until we tire of them and then repeat the process a little while [...]
Read More..>>Beef Stew and Dumplings
Every now and then I crave dumplings briefly, but never have them and then forget about them again until next time the craving arises. As a child I used to love them and it’s that memory that resurfaces from time to time. During some recent and long overdue kitchen-tidying, Kerri and I discovered [...]
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