Archive for August, 2007
Thai Skewers
A few days ago, we planned to have Thai lemongrass beef skewers tonight and hadn’t planned much else. Today we decided to have chicken satay as well, to follow the skewer theme. We managed to plan all of this without so much as a thought to anything non-meat related and this lack of thought continued […]
Read More..>>Harissa Roasted Salmon
We’ve had a lot of fish this week; clearly we need to be more imaginative when trying to think of healthy things to cook. We roasted some harissa-covered salmon and served it with roasted cherry tomatoes and a salad of spinach, feta, pine nuts and new potatoes. Generally, things worked well together but the salmon […]
Read More..>>Avocado with Pine Nuts and Fish with Tomatoes
We’ve been eating lots of avocado lately. I’ve always liked it but at the moment I really like it. Not that I get obsessed about food stuffs and eat them until I can’t face eating them anymore or anything… 😉 Tonight, Stephen made a pre-dinner dip of mashed avocado with salt and pepper sprinkled with […]
Read More..>>Beef Stirfry
We had a fair amount of beef left over from our roast yesterday, so we decided to make it into a stir fry. Nothing too fancy – just a made up, pseudo-Thai recipe using thinly sliced beef, red pepper, carrot, baby corn and broccoli to which we added chilli, lemongrass, garlic, lime juice, soy sauce […]
Read More..>>Cobnuts
Stephen went to the Hammersmith Farmer’s Market on Thursday and came back with cobnuts! We were both really excited by this as we’d read a lot about them but never seen them before. They’re a bit like hazelnuts and grow mostly in Kent. I was worried they were destined for the same fate as the […]
Read More..>>Roast Beef
Did I mention it was raining again today? We started talking about what to have for lunch before breakfast and it took us about 10 seconds to decide on roast beef. Stephen braved the weather to go in search of beef (well, go to the shop…it’s not like we live on a rambling country estate […]
Read More..>>Barbecue
Yesterday, we went to a friend’s barbecue. We’d been keeping our fingers crossed all week that the weather was going to co-operate and we were lucky, apart from a few spots of rain just as the food went on the grill, it stayed dry. Darren is famous for his guacamole, and he didn’t let us […]
Read More..>>Tart’s Tagliatelle
We had various ideas about what to make tonight but ended up deciding that something relatively simple would be good. So we decided on pasta puttanesca. We’ve made this before with spaghetti, but we had somehow run out of spaghetti so had it with tagliatelle instead, which went really well. The sauce was just the […]
Read More..>>La Perla
After we went to the market last night we had planned to go to Wahaca for dinner.  Stupidly, we didn’t book and as it’s only just opened it was busy. All was not lost though as we ended up just up the road at La Perla We had to wait a while for our table […]
Read More..>>Fantastic Four
Richard from Superfood has tagged us to answer the Fantastic Four meme. This posed a bit of a problem because there are two of us so, we decided we’d give two answers each per question. There were initially five questions which seemed at odds with the whole Four thing so we’ve left one out. Four […]
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