Sausages with Roast Tomatoes and Onions
Our plans for this evening changed many times, but eventually Kerri went to the butcher and bought some lovely Cumberland style sausages (I call them “Cumberland style” rather than actual Cumberland because they are not in big coils… have had complaints about that before!). She roasted these in the oven with some cherry tomatoes, sliced […]
Read More..>>Slow Roasted Shoulder of Mutton
On a recent trip to the Real Food Festival at Earl’s Court, we did manage to find a few interesting things in between pushing through crowds, avoiding random things in jars and being irritated by argumentative ladies selling wine. One of these interesting things was a rolled shoulder of mutton, which we bought as we […]
Read More..>>Breaded Veal with Asparagus and Sautéed Greens
Veal can be a contentious issue amongst food-lovers. And then there are the animal-lovers to consider too of course, but they tend to be a bit one-sided on this issue. However, for those of us who both love food and prefer to eat only ethically produced food, we are lucky that we can now buy […]
Read More..>>Chorizo and Squid Salad
The friends that came to visit yesterday kindly bought an enormous chorizo with them. We ate some yesterday but had plenty left over so decided to use it in this salad that we originally saw on Something For The Weekend. It was really good, the capers and sherry vinegar cut through the oiliness of the […]
Read More..>>Steak with Horseradish Crushed Potatoes
Last week’s success with the marinated lamb chops got us thinking about what else we could approach in a similar way. We don’t often eat steak and when we do, we usually just season it with a little salt and pepper beforeheand. It seemed obvious therefore that we should try marinating some steaks so that’s […]
Read More..>>Tayyab’s
On a Thursday night a few weeks ago now, Kerri and I had a wonderful dinner at Tayyab’s with a lot of other London food bloggers. Tayyab’s, which is situated on a random side street in Whitechapel in London’s East End, has become legendary for its excellent yet ridiculously cheap Pakistani food. I have been […]
Read More..>>Braised Ox Cheeks with Mashed Potato
At the threat of angering our vegetarian readers even further (not that I realised we had any until today), today we cooked some ox cheeks. I first saw ox cheeks in Waitrose a few weeks ago and had wanted to use them in a pie but they didn’t have any left when I went back […]
Read More..>>Rabbit and Leek Pie
Apparently, this week is British Pie Week. I don’t usually pay much attention to this kind of thing but, stuck for something to eat tonight, it was a welcome suggestion. I had it all worked out and had researched my recipe idea thoroughly but, when I got to the shop, they didn’t have the ingredients […]
Read More..>>Scottage Pie – Haggis in a Cottage Pie
It is Burns Night tomorrow, but we are otherwise occupied, so we had to cook haggis tonight. We tried a twist on the idea though – doing it in a cottage pie style, with the haggis filling underneath and mashed tatties and neeps (i.e. potatoes and swede) on top. We chopped up a couple of […]
Read More..>>Liver and Bacon Mash
Having watched Masterchef again last night where two of the contestants cooked liver and bacon, we both really started to crave it. We had to give it a bit of a twist though, so we put bacon into our mashed potato rather than having separate rashers of bacon. You can’t see a lot of it […]
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