Archive for December, 2009
Bruschetta and Coq au Vin
We spent a brilliant New Year’s Eve with some friends who have just moved into a new house. Since they weren’t familiar with their kitchen, we offered to cook something to bring with us and ended up settling on coq au vin (similar to this recipe but not completely, I’ll update the recipe at some […]
Read More..>>Chilli and Chicken Fajitas
It was my brother’s 30th birthday last week so, apart from the surprise dinner which we didn’t photograph, we invited some people to my mum’s house for his choice of dinner. He opted for chilli con carne which we duly provided, alongside a bean chilli for the non meat-eaters and some less spicy chicken fajitas […]
Read More..>>Tom Yum Goong and Chicken Satay
The plan was for something light and spicy to counteract the amount of heavy food we’ve eaten over the last few days. The chicken satay was a last minute and very welcome addition. Tom Yum Goong Serves Two 4 small green chillies 2 coriander roots and stems 600ml chicken stock 12 thin slivers galangal 2 […]
Read More..>>Boxing Day Bubble and Squeak
Boxing Day wouldn’t be Boxing Day without bubble and squeak. All the leftover vegetables, along with the bacon, were fried and served with the leftover meats. Gravy for Stephen, brown sauce for my mum. One of my favourite meals of the holiday.
Read More..>>Christmas Lunch 2009
With just three of us for Christmas lunch, it seemed silly to eat something as large as a turkey so we opted for chicken instead. Thinking it would be easy to find, we didn’t order one which meant Stephen scouring the supermarket shelves on Christmas Eve. He eventually tracked this down in Waitrose which meant […]
Read More..>>Fish
A quick and easy assembly-job for Christmas Eve: dressed crab, crayfish tails and smoked salmon served with horseradish creme-fraiche and some toasted bread. A gentle start to the inevitable onslaught of food the next few days will bring. And the first in a series of very yellow-looking photographs.
Read More..>>Cumberland Sausage
We’ve had this in the freezer since our visit to Cumbria at the end of the summer. Every time we considered eating it, we realised it was just too big for the two of us so we took it to my mum’s and ate it with her instead. This wasn’t as soft and melty as […]
Read More..>>Drunken Beans with Coriander and Bacon
Normally, when I don’t have a plan for dinner, I start with the meat or fish and work from there. Tonight’s dinner however was conceived entirely around the avocados. Planning ahead for last weekend’s Mexican meal, I bought the only four avocados I could find which were rock hard. I put them into a paper […]
Read More..>>Cheese
Stephen was out at his Christmas party this evening so while he traipsed around wet and windy West London on a treasure hunt, I wrote the Christmas cards while drinking wine and eating bread and cheese. This isn’t my most favourite of all the jobs that need to be done before Christmas but the wine […]
Read More..>>Dehli-Style Lamb with Potatoes
Another day, another dinner. With nothing planned, I stared at the cookery books hoping for inspiration. I had a slight craving for Thai food but all the recipes that appealed required ingredients that we didn’t have and I didn’t fancy trekking across town in the snow to track them down. Madhur Jaffrey’s ‘Indian Cooking’ has […]
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