Archive for the 'Roast' Category
Rack of Lamb with Sauteed Potatoes
Mmmm rack of lamb. Served with sauteed potatoes and a selection of vegetables - brussels sprouts, carrots and salsify. It’s the first time I’ve had salsify; not quite sure what to make of it. The lamb and potatoes were good.
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
There’s not much I can say about roast chicken that I haven’t said before. We eat it a lot, especially on a Sunday. We always cook it much the same way, salt and pepper on the outside and inside the carcass. Olive oil on the outside. Some combination of garlic, onion, [...]
Read More..>>Yorkshire Pudding
On new year’s eve we decided to have roast beef and yorkshire pudding for dinner. The yorkshire pudding came out really well. The roast beef wasn’t too bad either really. The vegetables were good but were largely neglected when we were faced with the rest of it.
Read More..>>Roast Chicken with Champagne Gravy
So, we’re all moved into the new place now and to celebrate, we cooked a roast chicken. It was also a trial run to see how the oven works ahead of our Christmas Dinner. I am pleased to report that it works very well and helped to produce a splendid dinner.
Chicken, roasted with [...]
Roast Chicken
Legend has it that Fred’s roast chicken is responsible for turning vegetarians into meat-eaters. I can well believe it.
I travelled two and a half hours across London this evening, when I arrived home I was greeted by the inviting smell of a roasting chicken. It was a Waitrose organic, lovingly salted 24 hours in advance [...]
Bubble and Squeak
Another of my favourite meals from when I was small, this time made with leftover roast potatoes and curly kale. Served with leftover pork belly. It was tasty but teeny. Fred is raiding the fridge as we speak.
Read More..>>Pork Belly
Fred had pork belly for lunch last week and it was really tasty so we decided to try cooking our own. We bought the pork belly from the Ginger Pig yesterday and, before we went out to watch the fireworks, we poured boiling water and cider vinegar onto the skin, then refrigerated it over [...]
Read More..>>British Tapas
Being my birthday, we decided to have a party. Ginger and I had been discussing the topic of “British Tapas” for quite a while and talking about what sorts of dishes (if any) would both fit this category and be delicious. So we decided to do some experimentation and invited some people round [...]
Read More..>>Partridge and Chicken. Separately.
For the first time in months, we ate different dinners. Ginger had chicken breast and salad because she was being healthy. I had partridge and gem squash because I was being greedy. Mmmm… partridge and bacon… mmmmmm…. gem squash and butter…. a good opportuniy to use up some vegetable box ingredients.
Read More..>>Yorkshire Pudding
One of the first photographs we ever took of something we cooked was Yorkshire pudding. It was big, it was crunchy and it was tasty. Since then, Fred has perfected the recipe and now it’s big and crunchy and tasty every time.
We had it with topside of beef, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, savoy [...]