Archive for August, 2009
Chorizo with Cabbage and Potatoes
Having had presentation issues with last night’s dinner, we thought that it would be good if we could rectify that tonight. However, when we went through what we had and what needed to be used up, we ended up with chorizo, cabbage, potatoes and half a tin of tomatoes and the result was tasty but […]
Read More..>>Black Pudding and Pea Risotto
I can’t remember how we came up with this idea, but I do remember that we thought it would be brilliant. It didn’t quite turn out that way. We started off by chopping the black pudding into cubes and frying it. We had planned to remove these and then put them back in at the […]
Read More..>>Chicken Curry
So, as you can imagine, a 2 kilo chicken generates rather a lot of leftovers. I’m not great with chicken leftovers, they scream PIE to me and unfortunately, that doesn’t fit with our current efforts to eat healthily. Admittedly, a chicken curry doesn’t automatically scream HEALTH but Stephen found a Good Food recipe that was […]
Read More..>>Salsa Verde Chicken Salad
Knowing we were going to be away this weekend, we placed an online shopping order so that we didn’t return home to an empty fridge on Sunday night. We do this every now and again and it works well but usually we stick to basics like milk and bread. This time however, Stephen was keen […]
Read More..>>Gilt Head Bream
We spent another weekend in Kent and visited Broadstairs on Saturday. The weather was good and we enjoyed honeycomb, hazelnut and mango ice-creams from Morellis, a lovely old-fashioned ice-cream parlour overlooking the beach. Broadstairs doesn’t have a working harbour unfortunately so, on the way back to my mum’s, we stopped off in Whitstable to pick […]
Read More..>>Lamb Kofte and Fattoush
I’ve been reading a lot about sumac recently and having managed to track some down, decided to use it in lamb kofte with fattoush. The kofte recipe is Jamie’s and uses almost a whole jar of sumac which neither of us really felt it needed, I think I’d probably halve that next time. The fattoush […]
Read More..>>Ratatouille
We’ve had limited success with ratatouille in the past, mostly I think because I usually cook it and I don’t like it very much. As much as I try to pay the same due care and attention to everything I cook, I tend to get distracted if I’m cooking something I don’t like; it doesn’t […]
Read More..>>Broad Bean, Pea and Lemon Spaghetti
This is another recipe from The Modern Vegetarian by Maria Ella. After the success of last week’s broad bean dish, we were keen to try something else that had been recommended to us from the same book, even if it did mean yet more bean shelling. The original recipe included asparagus which we left out […]
Read More..>>Beef Rendang
This dish has been following us around lately, we saw Rick Stein cook it last week and then Dan from Food Urchin also posted his version. We saw it as a sign and resolved to make it as soon as we could. As with most South East Asian dishes, there are various different recipes available, […]
Read More..>>Puy Lentil Salad with Mozzarella
We had some leftover mozzarella from the weekend and had decided we wanted to eat lentils this evening (it’s a Monday thing) so decided to combine the two in a salad. I had a quick browse online and came across a Good Food recipe which matched what I had in my head fairly closely so, […]
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