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Sag Aloo and Moong Dal
Last week I was feeling rather ill for most of the week and ended up eating quite a lot of fairly plain food. This included mostly cooked vegetables and not much meat. Although I am over that now, some of those menu choices still recur. With Kerri out this evening and an abundance of potatoes […]
Read More..>>Greek Salad, Pseudo-Rustic Style
When I’m a bit hung over, I sometimes crave salad. I know this is rather unusual since most people crave hamburgers or sausages or something along those lines, but I have a theory as to why it happens – tomatoes and cucumber contain a lot of water, which is what the body needs when you […]
Read More..>>Thakkali Payaru – Black-eyed Beans with Spinach and Tomato
At work a few days ago, I got into an in-depth discussion about black-eyed beans in Indian dishes. The discussion triggered last night’s dinner, but a colleague at work also presented me one morning with a photocopy of a recipe that he said was brilliant, one of his favourites. We considered making it but didn’t […]
Read More..>>Crab Toasts and Skate Wings with Clams
Our plans for dinner changed quite a few times, but eventually I found myself walking out of a fishmonger with one live crab, two skate wings and a dozen or so clams. Kerri had a plan to make crab on toast as a starter, which sounded good. For main course we decided just to cook […]
Read More..>>Beef Stroganoff
I arrived home this evening to the smell of onions and mushrooms cooking, which was very welcoming. The reason was that Kerri was making beef stroganoff. She had checked a few recipes but the end result was an amalgamation of them rather than any one in particular. The result was good although could have done […]
Read More..>>Tortilla Casserole, aka Mexican Lasagne
When paging through Rick Bayless’s Mexican Kitchen, we found something which we initially thought was a bit odd but strangely interesting – a Mexican version of lasagne, layered up with tortillas instead of lasagne sheets. We became determined to try it and thought that it would be a good way to use up the left […]
Read More..>>Springbok Fillet and Jersey Royals
Kerri went to visit Borough Market on Friday to buy a few things and she asked if I could think of anything else that I would like her to get while she was there. I racked my brains for something interesting that was hard to find elsewhere and eventually thought of springbok, which Gamston Wood […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti alla Vodka with Crayfish
A quick dinner this evening based on our recent success with spaghetti alla vodka. At the time, Kerri had commented that it would be good with things added into it and this evening those things were little crayfish tails. We followed the recipe pretty much exactly as it is in the link above, except that […]
Read More..>>Thai Noodle and Prawn Salad
Yesterday Kerri commented that she was craving some sort of Thai style salad with lime juice and fish sauce in it and remembered the one we had made in this dinner. So we tried something similar, but it was not as successful this time because we could not get the bean vermicelli at the last […]
Read More..>>Barbecued Octopus, also Halloumi and Lamb Chops
Last week we received a copy of Jamie Oliver’s new book “Jamie Does…” in the post and started having a browse through it. He covers a number of different countries in it, all of which are within easy short-haul flying distance from the UK – a mixture of the usual culinary suspects and a couple […]
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