Archive for the 'Vegetables/Salad' Category
Lamb Chops with Special Tabouleh
We’ve started cheating with our photographs. We’ve bought one of these. It’s magical. It makes it seem like daylight when it’s clearly night time. Now we just have to become good at photography to make good use of it.
Anyway, back to the food, which is what this is all about. [...]
Janssen’s Temptation
This is one of those recipes that seems to have been following me around for a while which we finally got round to making this evening. Its a Swedish recipe and is usually part of a smorgasbord, served with cold meats and fish. Also traditionally served at Christmas and/or Easter.
Unfortunately, I tried to [...]
Guacamole
We’re on holiday this week, but I had to pop into work today. While I was out, Ginger had made some delicious guacamole. It was rather hot due to the birds eye chillies that were in it, but delicious and excellent served with toasted pita bread slices. Yum.
Read More..>>Butternut and Parsnip Risotto
For a while now, Ginger has been going on about risotto. In a good way though. She initially mentioned butternut squash risotto, which I thought would be excellent with some added sage. At some point she changed her mind to parsnip risotto, but I managed eventually to persuade her that making risotto [...]
Read More..>>Creamy Mushroom Pasta
Mushroom pasta is one of those things I’ve attempted a couple of times with no success and I’d pretty much given up on it. This recipe posted by Rachel of What Rachel Ate Today sounded promising though and I bookmarked it to try later on. I didn’t have to wait too long; we [...]
Read More..>>Stir Fried Snow Peas
Usually I call these “sugar snap peas” but this was a Chinese style dish and they’re generally called “snow peas” in Chinese restaurants
Ginger was out this evening and I worked late and just wanted something quick when I got home. At one point on the journey I had decided on fish fingers, [...]
Pasta Pistou
While researching broad bean pesto this afternoon, I stumbled upon What Rachel Ate Today and subsequently, her recipe for pistou. It sounded just what I needed for a quick dinner this evening and apart from the parsley, I already had the ingredients I needed.
It was certainly quick and easy to prepare, just whizz [...]
Party
You’d be forgiven for thinking that things have been a bit quiet around here lately. Both Fred and I were out on Thursday and regrettably there was no food involved, only wine. And mojitos. For that reason, Friday saw us give in to the temptation of the supermarket pizza. As you [...]
Read More..>>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..>>Mushrooms on Toast
Fred’s off to play cricket today so for breakfast he had sausages, mushrooms and a fried egg on toast. I just had mushrooms, sauteed in butter and thyme.
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