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Salmon and Leek Fish Cakes
When I arrived home this evening, I was greeted by the lovely aroma of fish cakes cooking, which I find rather alluring in its combination of mashed-potato richness and poached-fish lightness. Then when they go into the oven, the fish aroma changes to roasted fish instead. They were quite small and also contained leeks, which […]
Read More..>>Green and Blue Wine and Chocolate Tasting
Last Thursday we were invited to Green and Blue for a wine and chocolate tasting along with Gourmet Chick, Food Stories, Cheese and Biscuits, Around Britain with a Paunch and Chocolate Chilli Cupcakes. Green and Blue is a wine shop, bar, deli and cafe in East Dulwich. Good principles are at the heart of what […]
Read More..>>Port, Sherry, Madeira, etc…
As part of my studying for the fortified wines module of my wine diploma, I’ve been tasting a fair number of fortified wines as you can see. The exam is tomorrow, after which a lot of these will be thrown away (some are empty or almost empty, some are past their best for having been […]
Read More..>>Chicken wrapped in Parma Ham
I wasn’t particularly excited about this but we had two leftover chicken breasts following yesterday’s green curry and were stuck for something else to do with them. I’d love to say that it turned out brilliantly but unfortunately it didn’t. We seasoned the chicken breasts with pepper and parmesan cheese before wrapping them in Parma […]
Read More..>>Breaded Tilapia and Chips with Homemade Tartare Sauce
Over the past 24 hours we’ve been through many different potential menus for the weekend. The main driver for this was that we couldn’t find the ingredients for our first choices, but I think we still over-thought it quite a bit. In the end we settled on breaded fish for this evening and shuffled and […]
Read More..>>Khmer Chicken Samla with Coconut Milk
This is one of the first Thai dishes I ever ate, cooked by Stephen’s sister. I really enjoyed it and they subsequently bought us the book they found the recipe in: Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet by Jeremy Alford and Naomi Dugold. We’ve cooked it ourselves but neither of us remembered that until we started cooking. […]
Read More..>>Chicken Kiev
Chicken Kiev has become something of a byword for outdated, retro-but-not-cool food along with prawn cocktail and similar dishes that were once considered the height of fashion but have since fallen from grace. It’s a shame really, as when they are done well, they can be very good. I used to like chicken kiev when […]
Read More..>>Lamb Chops Provencale with Ratatouille
After a brief Messenger conversation this afternoon we decided on lamb chops provencale, mainly because we had lamb chops in the fridge and we have enjoyed cooking crumbed cuts of meat in the past. Ratatouille sounded like a very good accompaniment to lamb chops provencale, as did sautéed potatoes, so we cooked both. For the […]
Read More..>>Baby Pears and Ice Cream
Some friends gave us baby pears preserved in sweet wine as a Christmas present. I thought that they would go well with some vanilla ice cream, so that’s what we did. When I opened the jar I realised that the baby pears were a lot more baby than I thought they’d be; they were very […]
Read More..>>Carbonara
Both Stephen and I were home late last night and we didn’t have anything planned for dinner. It’s been a bit of a challenge to find interesting things to eat since I had my wisdom tooth out, I’ve been craving lamb chops but don’t think I’ll be able to chew them. I ended up in […]
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