Archive for January, 2009
Casa Brindisa
It’s my birthday today and one of the wonderful presents I received from Stephen was a camera. We resolved to take more pictures of the food we eat in restuarants so we can post about it and today came the first opportunity. We already have plans for dinner but as we were in the area […]
Read More..>>Pizza
Lasy year, we got into the habit of eating pizza fairly regularly on a Friday night so, when stuck for something to eat last night, it seemed natural to revert back to our old habits. We didn’t really do anything exciting this time, just salami, peppers and mozarella but ran into some problems with the […]
Read More..>>Chicken Tikka Wraps
We have cooked a few dishes from Anjum Anand’s Indian Food Made Easy lately, and tried another one this evening. I’ve taken to calling it Indian Food Made Irritating because of the pseudo-Nigellaness of her presentation style on her television programme. However, we have had a fair amount of success with the recipes in the […]
Read More..>>Smoked Haddock, Saffron Mussels and Mashed Potato
Last night on Masterchef, the “invention test” involved creating a plate of food from ingredients which included smoked haddock, potatoes and leeks. As usual, some of the contestants did a good job and had an opportunity to change their life and some didn’t. And as usual we started thinking of what we’d made with the […]
Read More..>>Christmas Pudding Ice Cream Revisited
When doing some clearing out of our rather small freezer compartment, we found the leftovers of the Christmas pudding ice cream that we had made for our pre-Christmas dinner. We left it out for a bit to soften and then had some. It was still good and it struck me again just how much it […]
Read More..>>Lasagne
My love of lasagne is well documented, probably the only reason we don’t eat it more regularly is that it takes such a long time to put together. I’ve been craving it for a little while though and thought it would be a nice meal for Stephen to come home to after his first day […]
Read More..>>Cobnut Meringues
We picked up a bag of cobnuts while we were in Kent over Christmas and so far have just used them sprinkled on salad. We wanted to do something with them that gave them more of a starring role and decided to use them in meringues – the added bonus being we could strike those […]
Read More..>>Roast Beef
We’d talked about having roast beef on New Year’s Day but settled on chicken instead, neither of us had been able to get the idea of beef out of our heads though so decided to have it today. Stephen went sale shopping today so while he was out I started the preparation. I like to […]
Read More..>>Panettone Bread and Butter Pudding
We were given a panettone for Christmas which we’ve been enjoying but they’re rather large for two people and as it’s been open for a little while we thought we would try and use it up in a different way. The obligatory Christmas leftover recipes in magazines always suggest using it instead of bread in […]
Read More..>>Thai Red Curry with Chicken and Vegetables
The peanut sauce we made on Wednesday required one teaspoon or red curry paste which seemed like a lot of mortaring and pestling for such a small amount. Luckily Stephen remembered that we’d bought some paste at Oriental City before it closed down so we used that instead. There was obviously lots leftover so we […]
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