Archive for July, 2008
Lasagne
As I mentioned earlier in the week, I often crave spaghetti bolognaise; lasagne is another thing that regularly finds it’s way into my subconscious and shouts “eat me, eat meâ€â€¦not that unusual I suppose given that it’s essentially the same as bolognaise, just slightly differently arranged. I use the same recipe for bolognaise as I […]
Read More..>>Smoked Salmon Fishcakes and Salad
This evening we had some fish cakes that we’d made previously and frozen. They were very good – the fish was hot-smoked salmon and the potatoes had been baked in the oven. The smoked salmon gave the fish cakes a wonderful flavour; sometimes poached fish gets lots amongst the potatoes.
Read More..>>Spaghetti Bolognaise
Not a particularly interesting dish, nor a particularly interesting photograph but I’d been craving this for a few days so today I spent the afternoon making the sauce. We saw this a lot on menus while we were away, particularly children’s menus, so I guess that’s where the craving came from. Initially it didn’t turn […]
Read More..>>Lamb Chops and Sauteed Potatoes
A quick and easy meal this evening using up some lamb chops from the (vastly over-filled) freezer. The lamb chops were really good but the potatoes slightly disappointing, we used the leftovers from Friday’s roast chicken which made great roast potatoes but were sadly too floury for sauteed potatoes. More vegetables as we’re still trying […]
Read More..>>Chicken Salad
Having been on holiday in Spain last week, we mostly ate meat. Then yesterday we drove up to Suffolk where I was playing cricket and I ended up eating sausages for three meals in a row – sausage and mash for lunch, barbecued sausages in the evening and then another sausage as part of an […]
Read More..>>Spain
As we’ve already mentioned, Stephen and I have just come back from a week in Spain. We went to Mijas in the south of Spain and were lucky enough to be surrounded by a number of very good restaurants (which we largely found via this brilliant and very useful website). We didn’t take our camera […]
Read More..>>Thyme (and Roast Chicken)
As is tradition, on our first evening back from holiday we cooked roast chicken. On arriving home we noticed that our thyme plant had almost doubled in size. It seemed sensible therefore to stuff the chicken with thyme. It was delicious. We ate a lot of great food in Spain (more of which to come […]
Read More..>>Glasshouse
Last night, we had dinner at Glasshouse in Kew which is owned by the same people that own Chez Bruce in Wandsworth and La Trompette in Chiswick. They categorise themselves as largely French influenced but leaning heavily on Spanish and Italian influences too. We arrived at 7.30 and the restaurant was fairly empty but it […]
Read More..>>Fred’s Spaghetti
This evening we were both rather tired, so didn’t fancy doing too much cooking and ended up making spaghetti with semi-randomly thrown together sauce. It all worked out rather well in the end. It might seem a bit egotistical to name it after myself, but it was Kerri’s idea to do so 🙂 The recipe […]
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