Archive for the 'Meat' Category
Bonfire Night Sausage and Baked Potato
A short while ago when visiting my sister, we wandered into a butcher that stocked a lot of South African produce. We bought a wheel of boerewors, which is brilliant on a barbecue (or braai in South African terminology). However, here in England winter is of course on the way and we ended [...]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken with Anchovy, Chilli, Caper and Basil Rub
Those of you who read yesterday’s post will see what we made a “puttanesca pizza”, which is based on pasta puttanesca. Doing so meant that we had some left-over anchovies, which we used up today. We used them up by combining them with chilli, capers and basil in a mortar and pestle, making [...]
Read More..>>Baked Potatoes and Chilli
I know, baked potatoes again but we do have a big bag to get through and I’ve never had chilli with baked potatoes before. And it’s cold out and I’ve had a horrible day so this seemed like the very best kind of comfort food.
I made the chilli yesterday during my mammoth day of [...]
Chicken Casserole
I was home from work today so decided to use the time wisely and do some batch cooking. We bought a whole chicken yesterday which Fred jointed last night, saving the carcass for stock. I made an early start on the stock so that I could use it in today’s casserole and when [...]
Read More..>>Baked Potatoes
Fred and I were away this weekend and arrived home last night. We’ve eaten a fair amount over the past few days so decided on something simple and relatively plain: baked potatoes with pancetta, cheese and mustard. We scooped out the filling and combined it with the grated cheese, mustard and crispy pancetta [...]
Read More..>>Lamb Shanks with Sauteed Potatoes
After yesterday’s kitchen nightmare, we were determined to do better today. And we did, which is good but isn’t actually saying very much.
We did start off with a slight worry though when we re-read the recipe and found that it said to cook for 12 hours. Twelve hours is a long time. [...]
Scallops with Cauliflower Purée and Truffle Oil and Partridges with Rosti and Mushrooms
The title makes this meal sound rather like something from a good brasserie menu. However, this would have been a brasserie with Basil Fawlty at the helm as it turned out. Let’s start with the scallops. Both because we had them as a starter and also for reasons which will become clear [...]
Read More..>>Indian Herby Lamb Chops and Spinach Pilaf
Although we somehow missed the television show, we recently purchased Anjum Anand’s “Indian Food Made Easy” after drooling over it in the book shop. I haven’t really eaten a lot of Indian food but Fred is a big fan and has been encouraging me to acquaint myself with the cuisine and learn about the [...]
Read More..>>Harissa Chicken with Roasted Vegetable Couscous
We didn’t really put a lot of thought into tonight’s dinner, after Saturday’s pie extravaganza we were left with two chicken portions which we’d earmarked for this evening. We vaguely thought about stir-fry but we’ve eaten so much of it lately that it didn’t really appeal. Fred mentioned harissa last night and a [...]
Read More..>>Pappardelle with Rabbit
Yesterday we cooked rabbit casserole, and part of Ginger’s great rabbit-related master plan was to make left over casserole into pasta sauce today.
We reduced the leftover casserole down until the liquid was about a third of the original amount. We shredded the meat, then returned it to the reduced liquid and added about 150ml [...]