Archive for April, 2008
My Favourite Sandwich
It wasn’t exactly a secret since I’ve posted about it before but I suppose it’s one of those things that doesn’t come up in conversation very often and I don’t really mention it either. The truth is though that I love fishfingers. They remind me of being small but I’m not sure why as we […]
Read More..>>Chocolate Brownies
We were invited to a barbecue today and I offered to make cheesecake. When it came to making it though I realised that I’d actually left the base of the tin at my mum’s place so we had to improvise. I originally made these particular brownies in June of last year and took them in […]
Read More..>>Barbecue!
It was 20 degrees on Saturday so we thought it was about time we dusted off the barbecue and put it to work. We spent most of last week deciding what to cook but settled on lamb chops since they’re our favourite thing to eat from the barbecue. We marinated them in parsley, mint, coriander, […]
Read More..>>Vegetable Stir-Fry
Stephen cooked this for himself on Thursday night, I was out eating steak which was also supposed to go into this dish but apparently it didn’t smell too good. So vegetables it was, and nuts and noodles by the look of the picture.
Read More..>>Chilli Taco
I wasn’t going to post this because I couldn’t get the picture to work but it doesn’t look as bad as I remembered so here it is: Tuesday night’s dinner…apologies for the delay! Chilli, made to our usual recipe a while ago and frozen for an emergency. Tonight’s emergency being Stephen working late and an […]
Read More..>>Thai Monday Part 6 – Spicy Minced Chicken Salad (Larp Gai)…
…and hot and sour soup of clams with chillies and lime (tom yam hoi nahm sai). It’s been a while since we’ve done our supposedly weekly Thai Monday, so over the weekend we hastily chose a couple of recipes and bought what we needed to. First up was Hot and Sour Soup of Clams with […]
Read More..>>Spiced Lamb Shanks with Olives
Continuing our weekend of Spanish food, we cooked this dish from The Real Taste of Spain. It is a dish from Andalucia in southern Spain, influenced by the Moorish occupation centuries ago, hence its spicy flavours. Luckily, we read the recipe yesterday and realised that the lamb shanks needed to be rubbed with the spice […]
Read More..>>Spanish Seafood Stew
We decided on something of a Spanish theme this weekend and chose a recipe from one of each of the Spanish cookbooks that we have; this one is from “The Food of Northern Spain”. We’ve cooked something similar before and thought we’d give it another go. This version contained mussels, and since we could only […]
Read More..>>Chicken Fajita Wraps
Both Stephen and I went out on Thursday night and were feeling rather delicate yesterday, consequently we both fancied something requiring minimal preparation for dinner and Stephen suggested chicken fajitas. We used our usual marinade for the chicken (chilli, hot chilli powder, cumin, coriander seed, chopped coriander and lime juice) but Stephen added some cloves […]
Read More..>>Thai Beef Salad
A quick and easy dinner tonight. We’ve both been really busy at work lately and this week we were planning to rely on dishes that we’d previously cooked and frozen: lentils, chilli and the like. However, we felt like something a bit lighter, yet still substantial tonight. So, Thai Beef salad it was. We very […]
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