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Thai Green Curry
We haven’t had this for ages so while shopping on Saturday, we stopped off at our local Thai supermarket and picked up the ingredients we needed to make the paste. Fred made up the paste yesterday and I cooked the actual curry when I got home tonight.
It was good but not as good as [...]
Smoked Mackerel Risotto
I picked this up last weekend intending to use it in salads for lunch throughout the week, that didn’t happen though so it was left lurking in the fridge. Since making stock last weekend, I’ve had a risotto craving so I thought I would use the mackerel up tonight and satisfy my craving at [...]
Read More..>>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 [...]
Broad Bean Pesto
I’ve been thinking about this for a while and decided to give it a go this evening. I originally thought I’d use basil but since I didn’t have any but do have two huge mint plants, it seemed sensible to use that instead.
I don’t know what quantities I used but I steamed the broad [...]
Broad Bean, Pea and Mint Salad (with Lamb Chops)
The broad bean season is so short and we’re both big fans but for some reason we don’t tend to use them that often. Determined to do something interesting this week, we put them in the shopping basket on Saturday which forced me to spend some time looking at things to do with them. [...]
Read More..>>Beef Stir-Fry
We went through a phase of eating stir-fry at least once a week, lately we’ve not been as concerned as we should have been with healthy eating which would explain why there’s been more variety in our cooking and therefore less stir-fries.
We decided tonight to re-visit the stir-fry, partly from a health conscious point of [...]
Fred’s Spaghetti
This evening we were both rather tired, so didn’t fancy doing too much cooking and ended up making spaghetti with semi-randomly thrown together sauce. It all worked out rather well in the end. It might seem a bit egotistical to name it after myself, but it was Ginger’s idea to do so [...]
Read More..>>Pasta Amatriciana
Today was a fairly typical Tuesday, it got to 4.30 and we didn’t have anything planned for dinner. Fred still isn’t feeling very well and I have tooth ache so neither of us were particularly in the mood for cooking. This usually means we eat pasta so, rather than rely on one of [...]
Read More..>>Quiche
I toyed with titling this post “Leek, Bacon and Gruyere Tarlet” or something similarly “foodie” but decided I’d stick to what it actually is, which is quiche. I’m not sure if I’ve ever cooked this before; I have a very vague memory of cooking Quiche Lorraine in Home Economics at school but since I’ve [...]
Read More..>>Asparagus Pesto
I had no idea if this was going to work, partly because I’ve never seen asparagus pesto before and partly because my previous experience of trying to make pesto in our Tragimix (or Mini Magimix to give it it’s real name) was very trying. We had about eight stems of very tired looking asparagus [...]
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