Archive for November, 2008
Wild Boar Sausages
Kerri was out tonight, and when wondering what to have to eat this evening, I couldn’t really decide on anything. I wandered into Waitrose, wandered down various aisles without being inspired, then ended up loitering next to the fish and meat counters. Nothing fishy caught my eye, but then I saw the wild boar sausages. […]
Read More..>>Steak and Salsa Verde
We have been wondering what to do with the left over salsa verde from our recent halibut. We decided that it would go well with almost anything, but were particularly keen to try it with either steak or lamb chops. Steak won in the end though, so here it is. My steak-cooking skills seem to […]
Read More..>>Curried Lentils with Spinach
When I arrived home, Kerri was cooking this for me. She was being helpful and eating up some left over quiche which we had made a few weeks ago and frozen. It was the first time we’ve had different dinners at home for a very long time indeed. The dish is relatively simple, from Anjum […]
Read More..>>Sandra’s Christmas Puddings
I’ve never made a Christmas pudding before, as a child I didn’t really like it and have only come to appreciate it in the last few years. I was keen to make my own this year so started looking around for recipes when my mum mentioned that her very good friend Sandra made very good […]
Read More..>>Roast Pork with Caramelised Apple and Chorizo Stuffing
Firstly, this was really good. I felt I should say that just in case the rest of the entry doesn’t convey it and I forget to add it. That said, what we had was roast pork with a caramelised apple and chorizo stuffing, cooked from this recipe, and also potato and parsnip rosti cooked from […]
Read More..>>Shortbread
Part one of our Christmas-Present-Experiment. These didn’t turn out too badly for a first attempt but I think I over-cooked them, I’ll reduce the cooking time to 10-12 minutes next time. We used this recipe which was very easy to follow but I had some trouble “mixing into a smooth paste”.
Read More..>>Crab Toasts and Halibut with Salsa Verde and Sauteed Potatoes
A few days ago we decided to cook something special this evening. Shortly afterwards, we decided that the starter should be crab toasts. After quite a lot more thinking, we still hadn’t decided what our main course should be, so we figured that when we went to buy the crab from the fishmonger, we would […]
Read More..>>Mussels
Mmmmussels. We haven’t had mussels for a while and when deciding on something fun to cook this evening, we decided that it was high time that we had them again. We cooked them in a fairly typical moules mariniere style recipe. Except that I should have reduced the sauce a bit at the end (Kerri […]
Read More..>>Roasted Vegetable Lasagne
We’ve cooked roasted vegetable lasagne a couple of times before, but not for ages so we gave it another go. The top went lovely and golden brown this time, with chewy-and-crunchy cheesy bits. Re-reading our previous post (the one before was pre-Dinner Diary!), we mentioned that we were trying to eat more vegetables and less […]
Read More..>>Parkin
Like many other bloggers, we decided to make parkin in honour of Guy Fawke’s Night. Neither of us had eaten it before so weren’t sure what to expect, the combination of ginger and cinammon sounded irresistable though so off we went to purchase the huge amounts of sugar, butter, treacle and syrup we needed. I […]
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