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Duck Breast with the Best Sautéed Potatoes
We have had a couple of memorable successes with duck breasts before, particularly with rösti, but recent rösti attempts have been less successful so we decided on sautéed potatoes to accompany these instead. Armed with a large bag of potatotes and the last two duck breasts from the shelf in Waitrose, we set about preparing. […]
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..>>Home Made Tapas
Saturday night! As we weren’t going out, that meant that it was time to cook something “interesting”. Where the exact meaning of “interesting” does of course vary depending on what mood we are in, but generally cooking on a Saturday means that there is more time available to prepare, so the range of what can […]
Read More..>>Slow Roast Shoulder of Lamb – Moroccan Style
Due to our successes with slow roasting a shoulder of lamb with garlic and rosemary, we thought we would try a different slant on it this weekend and give it a Moroccan style treatment. We had half a shoulder and the evening before cooking it, we rubbed it with a spice mix and left it […]
Read More..>>Mussels with Garlic and Cream
We ate mussels in Brussels. Obviously. If you like mussels then that’s one of the reasons to go to Brussels. There’s beer too of course and chocolate but the mussels are excellent; at least the ones that we had were. When we were in the restaurant waiting for our mussels, we realised that the way […]
Read More..>>Steak and Pickled Mushrooms
Kerri was out tonight so it was up to me to cook my own dinner and I found that I was craving STEAK. But in an attempt to be reasonable and not over-indulge after last week’s continual over-indulgence, I bought a smallish steak. Which meant that I over-cooked it while being distracted by the smoke […]
Read More..>>Mexican Fish Fajitas with Broad Bean Salsa
I can’t remember how we came up with the idea, but we decided to try making fish fajitas and see how they turned out. We have made chicken or beef fajitas many times but never tried anything like that with fish. Kerri was back late from work, so that meant I had some time to […]
Read More..>>Marinated Herring and Crisp Bread
Kerri was out this evening, so it fell to me to organise dinner for myself. Ever since we got back from our recent holiday to Sweden, this situation has resulted in my eating marinated herring. Which happened again this time too! I found this herring in dill marinade in Waitrose, produced by Elsinore. It is […]
Read More..>>Sill and Crackerbread
After visiting Sweden and eating loads of sill (marinated herring), we popped into a Swedish cafe and shop in London last weekend (Scandinavian Kitchen) and bought some more of it. We bought one picked in a dill marinade and our plan was also to buy a plain one and do our own marinade for it. […]
Read More..>>Pelikan Restaurant – Stockholm, Sweden
While we were staying with friends in Stockholm, we asked then to recommend a typically Swedish restaurant for dinner and they chose Pelikan. After a short ride on the Tunnelbana, we arrived outside an old builidng (one of the oldest in this part of town). The dining room seemed rather dark inside, and it has […]
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