Archive for November, 2007
Kippers
Tonight saw Stephen and I wandering aimlessly around the supermarket, tired, hungry and lacking in enthusiasm. That is until we happened upon these smoked kippers at the fish counter. We quickly decided we would take them home and have them with salad. Imagine our delight when we found they had been reduced and were only […]
Read More..>>Guacamole, Salsa and Chicken Fajitas
The title says it all really. We made guacamole to our usual recipe (avocado, red onion, lime juice, chilli, coriander, garlic, salt and pepper) and served it with some toasted corn wraps. We attempted to make salsa but it came out too watery (I caught Stephen drinking it when he thought I wasn’t looking) although […]
Read More..>>Steamed Fish
Stephen cooked a lovely dinner this evening of steamed sea bream which he had marinated in garlic, ginger, minced shallot, oyster sauce and soy sauce. It was topped with ginger, chilli and spring onions and steamed for 20 minutes. We served this with some steamed vegetables: cauliflower (not good), red pepper (ok), celery (surprisingly delicious) […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken, Stuffing and Roast Potatoes
Today we cooked a roast chicken, for five people. We bought a rather large chicken and cooked it upside down so that it wouldn’t dry out. We had intended to turn it over for the last twenty minutes, but forgot. So the result was that it was tasty and moist, but didn’t look very photogenic. […]
Read More..>>Pasta Puttanesca and Chestnuts (separately)
Tonight we wanted something quick and easy so we had pasta puttanesca, which has featured several times before on Dinner Diary, so not a particularly exciting picture. Tasty though. Tomorrow we are going to make chestnut stuffing, so tonight we roasted some chestnuts. Tomorrow we’ll make them into stuffing. Mmmmmmm stuffing.
Read More..>>Pork Chops and Stuffed Peppers
Last week we bought some long, red peppers that we thought would be nice stuffed. We didn’t get round to using them during the week so had them last night with some pork loin chops. The chops were rubbed with our usual garlic, rosemary and bay mix before being expertly fried by Stephen. The peppers […]
Read More..>>Thai Steamed Fish
A few weeks ago I bought some green peppercorns without really having a plan for what to do with them. They languished in the bottom of the fridge until tonight when, quite coincidentally, the recipe that I looked up for Thai steamed fish call for them. And just in time too, as they were a […]
Read More..>>Pea Shoots
Tonight we made a rather disappointing stir-fry, we used the same method we used here but substituted chicken for beef. Something went wrong though because it just didn’t work, the flavours didn’t come together properly and I ended up having Marmite toast instead. We did however have some interesting pea shoots that we stir-fried with […]
Read More..>>Thai Green Curry
Not all that exciting because we make this a lot but this was a particularly good example. We used the reduced fat coconut milk again and I don’t think I’d have been able to tell if I didn’t know as the liquid was really creamy and tasty. We added some small, purple aubergines that we […]
Read More..>>Fish Pie
We’ve cooked fish pie a few times in the past but always with varying success. Today’s method was slightly different and more successful. Rather than poaching the fish in milk as we usually do we added it to the dish raw with some white sauce (which had been steeped with celery, carrot, shallots and capers), […]
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