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Five Courses for Eight People
Last Saturday, Kerri and I cooked dinner for some friends; there were eight of us in total. We eventually came up with a five-course menu. Which could be called seven courses if you counted nuts and a little shot of watercress soup that we served between the starter and main course. At some point we […]
Read More..>>Thai Style Mussels
Lately we have been cooking a number of different Thai dishes and happened to have some curry paste left over that we had made for the rabbit curry. We didn’t want to waste it, so we tried to think of something interesting to do with it. Kerri thought of using it to cook a Thai […]
Read More..>>Roast Bone Marrow with Parsley Salad, St John Style
While wandering randomly around a specialist food shop this afternoon and browsing the meat counter, I saw beef marrow bones. It can be hard to find these in today’s modern, fillet-steak-eating-and-offal-hating world and they immediately made me reminisce about the bone marrow salad that I once had at St John several years ago and keep […]
Read More..>>Cumin-Scented Chicken Curry
This evening we couldn’t really decide what to cook, so Kerri went through a few bookmarked recipes in her web browser and found this one. We mostly followed it, although we put in all the specified spices even though we only had a third of the chicken (and half of the onion and half the […]
Read More..>>Thai Green Papaya Salad, Mackerel Braised with Green Papaya, and Pork and Green Bean Red Curry
The title is a bit of a mouthful, but it needs to be to cover everything that we ate. We have been on a bit of a Thai theme for a few weeks now and it culminated in dinner with friends last night. One of the big points about Thai menus is that they should […]
Read More..>>Thai Rabbit Curry
Last year when we visited Kerri’s mum one weekend, she had bought a rabbit for us really cheaply. When she recently asked if we wanted another one, we of course said that no, we wanted two. So we picked them up this past weekend. As we have a tiny freezer, we left one there and […]
Read More..>>Thai Muslim Oxtail Soup
Kerri was out having lunch with a friend today and I volunteered to find something for dinner. After all the soup that we have been eating lately, Kerri said that she wanted something quite hearty and not soup-related for dinner today. I set to work looking through the excellent Thai Food by David Thompson, which […]
Read More..>>Sweetcorn Chowder
As a child I used to love the sweetcorn chowder that my mum cooked and when she made it, I usually ate it until I was too full to move. Kerri and I have been in soup-making mode lately and the topic of sweetcorn soup came up, so I was keen to try sweetcorn chowder. […]
Read More..>>Bibendum “Grape Expectations” Wine Tasting
We have been to a few of the tastings organised by Dan from Bibendum and they have all been really good. At most of them, I have attempted to make notes and then given up at some point. This time though, I was determined to persevere and mostly succeeded. The previous tastings have been around […]
Read More..>>Khmer Chicken Samla and Pomelo Salad
We had planned to cook rack of lamb tonight but we’re having lunch with Stephen’s sister tomorrow and she told us she’s planning to cook roast lamb. As much as we both love lamb, we didn’t want to eat it twice in a row so found ourselves in a bit of a quandary this morning […]
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