Archive for February, 2008
Thai Steamed Seabass
While we were in China Town recently we picked up some fresh green peppercorns, Stephen bought some on a previous trip and used them to make steamed fish. We thought we’d do the same again last night as for some reason I didn’t eat the previous dish. We used sea bass fillets and coated them […]
Read More..>>Chicken Breasts stuffed with Haggis
We’ve been planning to cook this ever since Burns Night last year. Every Burns Night we become determined to eat more haggis and try to think of things to do with it instead of just having it plain. So the time finally came and we made it. When shopping for chicken breasts, there was only […]
Read More..>>Jambalaya and Wild Rice
Yesterday, Kerri suggested this Jambalaya recipe for dinner and when we read it we realised that we already had all the ingredients at home, either in the fridge and needing to be used up, or in the freezer and waiting to be useful. We skipped the prawns though, used some chorizo as our “Spicy Mediterranean […]
Read More..>>Pancake
The obligatory pancake post! We didn’t do anything complicated having had quite an elaborate dinner, pancakes don’t lend themselves to healthy eating either unfortunately so we stuck to the traditional lemon and sugar. Stephen had cinnamon on his though, quite a lot as it turned out due to a mis-shake of the jar. Had we […]
Read More..>>Harissa Lamb, Tabbouleh and Tzatziki
I’m not sure where the inspiration for this came from but last night’s Masterchef contestants worked in the kitchen of a Middle-Eastern restaurant so it may have been that. I marinated the lamb pieces (from two leg steaks) in harissa for about an hour before assembling them on skewers and grilling them for about three […]
Read More..>>Thai Green Curry
We cooked green curry almost every week for a while, but haven’t done so for some time and decided to end the green curry drought today. We had bought the ingredients when we were in Chinatown on Saturday, so this evening when I got home from work I started preparing the paste. I managed to […]
Read More..>>Slow-Roasted Shoulder of Lamb
Yesterday, we had decided that today we should have some roast lamb. We were in the market for half a leg of lamb when we arrived at our local butcher yesterday, but we ended up taking half a shoulder instead because there was one on display and we couldn’t remember having cooked shoulder before. So […]
Read More..>>Five Things About Us
First off, let me talk about this picture. Having finished writing this post I realised that I didn’t have a picture to go with it and I’m not keen on posts without pictures, they look out-of-place compared to all the other posts and less interesting. I thought I’d have a hunt around for an interesting […]
Read More..>>Cheesecake
Two of my colleagues had birthdays this weekend which coincided nicely with my discovery of Pixie’s cheesecake recipe. As regular readers will know, baking isn’t really my forte but this year I’m determined to master at least one good dessert. We don’t have a food mixer but I checked with Pixie and she confirmed that […]
Read More..>>Soup
We make a fair amount of soup but rarely blog about it, I think it’s because generally it goes straight into a Tupperware ready to go to work for lunches and we don’t photograph it. Today’s offering, as is so often the case, was born out of lots of leftover vegetables lurking in the bottom […]
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