Archive for July, 2007
Stir Fried Vegetables with Roasted Salmon
Does this look familiar at all? If it does it’ll be because this is basically the same as last night’s dinner, except with salmon instead of chicken. I roasted the salmon in the oven with some garlic, chilli and ginger and stir fried the vegetables seperately in the same sauce of oyster sauce, soy sauce […]
Read More..>>Stir Fried Chicken
It’s another healthy eating week for us, we’re going on holiday on Friday and expect to be eating and drinking too much so this is a sort of pre-emptive strike. We decided on a carb-light dinner of stir fried chicken which was really tasty, and quick too which is key…if we don’t eat soon after […]
Read More..>>Barbecue
I think summer has arrived. I could be wrong but in the interests of making the most of it while it lasts, Stephen and I barbecued yesterday. We’d been talking to a friend on Friday night about how good barbecued mackerel is so decided to have that, along with some bream. We also had corn, […]
Read More..>>Scallops and Samphire
Yesterday we visited our local farmer’s market and were lucky enough to find samphire. We’ve heard a lot about it recently but haven’t seen it anywhere so we were both really excited to find it at the market. Online recipes were pretty scarce, I found a few risottos but not much else apart from a […]
Read More..>>Marmite on Toast
Stephen is out tonight so I have spent most of the day wondering whether to cook something for myself or just have Marmite toast. I decided that I would attempt to make an interesting pasta sauce with the chorizo that’s been lurking in the fridge and some mushrooms I bought on the way home. Interesting […]
Read More..>>Brownish-Green Thai Curry
While cooking Thai green curry this evening, I was wondering how to make it slightly differently because we have had it quite a few times over the past few months. While pondering this, I was not really paying attention and burnt the chicken slightly. Which I’m claiming makes it brownish-green curry rather than green curry; […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti with Roasted Peppers and Chorizo
I think this has the potential to be quite good, but it needs some refinement. I oven roasted the peppers and then added them to some softened onions, garlic and chorizo. Next I added some basil, s&p and passata and reduced the sauce before adding a dash of worcester sauce and mixing it through some […]
Read More..>>Marinated Tuna and Alaskan Spider Crab
Tonight we had marinated tuna; it’s ages since I remember cooking tuna. We marinated two tuna steaks in some oil, soy sauce and lime juice with some chopped garlic, chilli and lemongrass. We’d planned to marinate it for one hour but due to some changes of plan it ended up being in it for three […]
Read More..>>Chicken Basque
Today was really rainy and evil and nasty. We went out for lunch and were completely drenched going three blocks to the pub even though we had umbrellas. (Tip: If you have wet socks in the office, hang them behind your PC to get dry; the outflow from the fan is quite warm and will […]
Read More..>>Baked Potatoes with Cheese and Bacon
Last week, we cooked baked potatoes with smoked trout which were brilliant. Tonight, we fancied something easy so decided to do the same but with cheese and bacon (or, CHEESE and BACON as Stephen put it). They were tasty but needed more cheese and more bacon.
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