Archive for the 'Beef' 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..>>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..>>Steak and Kidney Pie
It’s been a while since we’ve made any sort of pie other than cottage pie, and as we’ve had to much wintery weather lately, we decided that today would be a good day for it. As it was, the weather turned out to be rather nice, but we were so excited at the prospect [...]
Read More..>>Thai Monday - Stir Fried Chilli Beef with Holy Basil…
… aka Nuer-pad-kra-prao.
This recipe is from a little Thai cookbook that I don’t remember buying, but it has a price tag on it from one of the supermarkets in London’s Chinatown. It’s called Thai Traditional Cooking - The Mother’s Recipes, by Maria Kanignan Saunders, aka Kanignan Suwannalai.
First, fry holy basil leaves in some oil [...]
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..>>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 [...]
Chilli
Fred and I cooked this on Sunday and then froze it in portions for eating later on. We followed our usual recipe but the end result was almost completely devoid of heat and flavour. We rectified this by adding lots more spices and some extra tomatoes.
I’d been looking forward to it all day, [...]
Cottage Pie
I’m really surprised that we’ve never made this before, it’s a classic and one I grew up with. You’d think that it wasn’t all that appropriate for an evening in August but then the weather hasn’t really been all that appropriate of late either so it seemed fitting.
As I said before, I grew up [...]
An Old Favourite
I had to go to the dentist this afternoon and later on we had to do the weekly shop, neither of us were much in the mood for cooking after that so when Fred suggested fajitas it seemed a sensible choice. It’s quick, easy and we can do it with our eyes closed.
It’s not [...]
Thai stir-fried Beef with Shallots and Basil
Day two of the healthy eating plan led me to “Vegetables” by Sophie Grigson. We’ve had this book for a while but haven’t used it much despite a lot of the recipes sounding good. This recipe jumped out at me, something about spicy dishes seems to make low-fat cooking all that more appetising.
This [...]