Archive for November, 2010
Chicken and Cannellini Beans
While I get on with clearing the backlog, here’s a quick and easy dish you can throw together in no time. I cooked this on Monday night while waiting for something from the freezer to heat up. It went into the fridge overnight and just needed heating up the next day. You could eat it […]
Read More..>>A Tale of Two Curries
I wasn’t going to post this since the pictures came out so badly but our friends who came and ate this with us asked for the pork recipe so here it is. We don’t have a very large dining table so don’t entertain at home as much as we would like to. When we do […]
Read More..>>Saag Gosht
Saag gosht is our favourite Indian dish and one we fight over when we go out or order a takeaway. I usually remember first and “bagsy” it then offer to share it with Stephen but really we should both order it as I’m not very good at sharing food. I thought it would be a […]
Read More..>>Peri Peri Chicken
I’ve been working on this recipe for ages, months in fact and finally got round to making it a couple of weeks ago and it didn’t turn out well. I wonder if it’s because I spent so much time on it or if the combination of ingredients we just ill-conceived in the first place. I’m […]
Read More..>>Beef Casserole with Mustard and Herb Dumplings
We went to a friend’s place on Saturday night and he cooked beef stew which was lovely. It was particularly lovely as he cooked it outside, over an open fire and we ate it sitting around another, different fire. I’m sure the stew itself would have been just as lovely if we’d eaten it inside […]
Read More..>>Indian Style Salmon – Again
This is a variation on this recipe, but with yoghurt and fresh ginger added to make a wet marinade. It worked really well and I think I might have preferred it to the dry version. I suppose I would say that though, since Stephen came up with the dry version and this was my idea. […]
Read More..>>Chilli Wraps with Garlicky Greens
Another quick and easy dinner from the freezer of chilli with more of those garlicky greens I talked about yesterday. We usually have lettuce in Mexican-style wraps but the greens worked well, not as fresh or crunchy as the lettuce obviously but an interesting change. Since these were already in the fridge and the chilli […]
Read More..>>Grey Goose – a Toast to Taste
Up until a couple of months ago, on the occasion that the subject of premium (i.e. expensive) vodka arose while we were chatting in the pub, my answer was always that it was a complete waste of money since vodka was for people who wanted to get drunk without tasting anything and if you mixed […]
Read More..>>Lamb Chops and Garlicky Greens
This was supposed to be a celebratory meal, cooked by me, to celebrate Stephen completing the latest module of his wine exams. I chose lamb chops because they’re one of his favourites and I was planning to make sautéed potatoes too but I got stuck at work and Stephen ended up both shopping for and […]
Read More..>>Chicken Tagine
Chicken tagine seems to have replaced ordinary roast chicken as our favourite Sunday lunch, well, it has for me anyway. I think it’s something to do with the fact that having disliked the flavour of aniseed for so long, I’ve finally grown to love fennel and now want to eat it at every opportunity. I […]
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