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Stir Fried Scallops
A recent comment on this post made us remember that we’d really loved this recipe and should cook it again. We put in quite a few vegetables this time – green beans, baby corn and some shredded cabbage to use up what was in the fridge. It didn’t look as good because the pale cabbage […]
Read More..>>Thai Monday – Stir Fried Chilli Beef with Holy Basil…
… aka Nuer-pad-kra-prao. This recipe is from a little Thai cookbook that I don’t remember buying, but it has a price tag on it from one of the supermarkets in London’s Chinatown. It’s called Thai Traditional Cooking – The Mother’s Recipes, by Maria Kanignan Saunders, aka Kanignan Suwannalai. First, fry holy basil leaves in some […]
Read More..>>Steamed Fish
We have cooked this a couple of times before, once with tuna and once with sea bass and tonight we tried it with cod (Icelandic of course, so as not to make the poor fishies extinct). We marinated the fish in oyster sauce, soy sauce, garlic and black pepper. Then topped it with sliced onion […]
Read More..>>Roast Lamb with Caper Sauce and Boulangere Potatoes
We don’t seem to have had roast lamb for a while, so chose it for today. Kerri cut little pockets into our lamb leg and stuffed them with garlic, rosemary and anchovies. We also cooked boulangere potatoes, which are thinly sliced potatoes layered with thinly sliced onions and herbs and then cooked with milk and […]
Read More..>>Steak!
Kerri was out tonight, so I selfishly treated myself to some steak. Actually, I’d been to gym on the way home and was really very hungry when I went shopping for dinner afterwards. So steak and mustard mash it was. There was also tenderstem broccoli, but that didn’t make it into the picture. The blob […]
Read More..>>Summer Pudding
We’ve made summer pudding twice recently and took a number of photographs while we did so, so here are some step-by-step, illustrated instructions in case anyone is interested in making it and hasn’t done so before. Summer pudding is quite simple to make, but it does require some forward planning. In fact, it needs to […]
Read More..>>Crunchy Pork Chops
We first ate these at a friend’s house and really enjoyed them so decided to cook them ourselves. It’s a fairly straightforward recipe by Nigella who suggests eating them with garlic spinach and a tomato salad. We had them with mustard mashed potatoes and runner beans. The mustard in the mashed potatoes complimented the chops […]
Read More..>>Baked Mackerel and Poor Man’s Potatoes
Yesterday we bought some whole mackerel and planned to do something interesting with it this evening. We have loads of thyme growing in our garden so we thought we’d use up some of that and Kerri found a really good sounding recipe. However, when we got home and started making it, we found that we […]
Read More..>>Pizza!
Pizza tonight! We made the dough, then went shopping while it rose and when we got home, all we needed to do was heat up the oven, add the ingredients and cook them. Kerri made a tomato sauce by cooking down some cherry tomatoes with garlic and oil, which worked rather well. The first pizza […]
Read More..>>Stir Fried Snow Peas
Usually I call these “sugar snap peas” but this was a Chinese style dish and they’re generally called “snow peas” in Chinese restaurants 🙂 Kerri was out this evening and I worked late and just wanted something quick when I got home. At one point on the journey I had decided on fish fingers, but […]
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