Archive for the 'Meat' Category
Steak with Horseradish Mashed Potatoes
Firstly let me say that this steak tasted better than it looks in the picture. The picture looks a bit like a really old post card or one of those nasty, faded pictures of food that some cafes and restaurants ill-advisedly put in their window. And it does look rather like a badly [...]
Read More..>>Chicken Stir Fry
I know. I toyed with not posting it because it’s appeared so many times before but that’s not what Dinner Diary is all about. So, apologetically, I give you chicken stir-fry.
It contained all the usual ingredients and was cooked in pretty much the same way we usually cook it. We hereby promise [...]
Roast Chicken
Tonight we were planning to have a beef stir fry, but we ended up eating the steak last night. We had a chicken which we were going to joint and then use the breasts for the stir fry (and keep the legs for later), but as Ginger was home a bit early today she [...]
Read More..>>Steak Sandwich
A fairly simple dinner tonight as I’d been playing cricket but got home a lot earlier then I usually do, and we realised that we actually had some time to cook something but hadn’t planned anything. So we “borrowed” the steak from tomorrow’s dinner, cooked that to nice and pink, then sliced it up [...]
Read More..>>Veal Escalope
We’d been wanting to cook veal ever since reading an article in the Metro newspaper about how welfare standards had improved and many of the supermarkets were supporting the production of “friendly” veal. They may well have been supportive but we weren’t able to find any until we popped into Waitrose last week and [...]
Read More..>>Chicken Fajitas in Pitas for Lunch
We’d planned on having chicken salad for lunch but after a visit to the gym we both felt like something more substantial was required. Luckily, we had all the ingredients for chicken fajitas and guacamole. Filling, tasty and hot. Just what we need before we embark on an afternoon of spring (well, [...]
Read More..>>Pork Shoulder Braised in Cider
Last week Ginger had pork braised in cider for lunch in a rather good gastropub (Great Queen Street on - you guessed it - Great Queen Street in Covent Garden) and wanted to try to recreate it. We had a look around for recipes but eventually just did our own thing.
We bought [...]
Pizza
Our dough turned out a bit too thick again but it was a definite improvement on last time. Garlic bread followed by salami, olive, pepper and rocket for me; tuna, anchovy, olive and pepper for Fred.
Read More..>>Peppers Cashew nuts with Chicken
This is another recipe from the mysterious Thai Traditional Cooking: The Mother’s Recipes by Maria Kanigman Saunders that we used last week to make the beef stir-fry.
Once again, the recipe was easy to follow and quick. I spent a few minutes chopping up the ingredients and Fred cooked it when he got home. [...]
Chicken with Butter Beans and Chorizo
We’d planned to have this for lunch yesterday but changed our plans as the weather was so good. The chicken needed to be used up though so we cooked it anyway and just re-heated it this evening. It was really tasty and very easy to cook, it could easily be done after work…as [...]
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