Archive for July, 2007
Vegetables
There was a really bad storm while we were away and unfortunately the majority of our vegetables didn’t survive, which is a real shame because everything seemed to be coming on well before we left. We did manage to salvage two broad beans which we steamed and added to our bean salad earlier today. Shame […]
Read More..>>Barbecue
It was a warm and sunny day today so we decided to barbecue some fish. Stephen went off to the fishmonger and came back with a bumper bag of prawns, langoustines, sea bass and bream. We started off with the prawns (marinated in onion, garlic, lemon juice and olive oil) and langoustines and some garlic […]
Read More..>>Chicken and Vegetable Stirfry
We had a fair amount of left over chicken from last night to use up, so we decided on a stir fry. To the chicken we added two cloves of garlic, some ginger (dried unfortunately; we didn’t have any fresh), a sauce mixture (soy sauce, oyster sauce, rice wine, sesame oil and sesame seeds) and […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
It’s become something of a tradition that when we return from holidays we eat roast chicken…well, this is the second time it’s happened so it’s on the way to being a tradition. We roasted the chicken with onion, garlic, sage and lemon and served it with sagey roast potatoes, stuffing and some green vegetables. It […]
Read More..>>Sweden
We’re back from our trip to Sweden where Stephen’s team won both their cricket matches. For the first part of the trip we stayed in a small town with only two restaurants, both of which served pizza and kebabs. We therefore ate pizza: One of the opposition ate kebab pizza (perhaps that’s why they lost): […]
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