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Bacon, Mozzarella and Broad Bean Salad
Tonight we made a salad of spinach leaves with bacon, mozzarella, broad beans and avocado, which we served with a simple dressing made from olive oil, lemon juice, wholegrain mustard and salt and pepper. We also made some toasted sliced of bread drizzled with olive oil and rubbed with a garlic clove. This had the […]
Read More..>>Red Lentil Dahl and Roasted Cauliflower
Yesterday’s lentils were bumped to today due to a delicious roast chicken getting in the way, but we got to them finally. There are as many recipes for this sort of dish as there are people who have cooked it; this one is a merging of various recipes and home-made versions that I’ve used in […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
We had originally decided to cook lentils this evening, but as I wasn’t feeling well Kerri decided that we needed roast chicken instead. A very good idea it was too. We do tend to have roast chicken fairly often (although not all that often recently) so do find it a little hard to think of […]
Read More..>>Smoked Mackerel Fish Cakes and Roasted Broccoli
A quick dinner today to use up some leftover mackerel I found lurking at the back of the fridge. Simply mix with some mashed potato, a teaspoon of Dijon mustard, some parsley, lemon juice and a few capers and form into fishcakes. I think I had a little too much mashed potato as these didn’t […]
Read More..>>Risotto with Bacon, Peas and Sage
A fairly simply risotto this evening, this turned out to be a completely store-cupboard (and freezer for the bacon and peas) meal. Which is rare when we are trying to think of new things to do a lot of the time and often end up needing to get at least a few ingredients at the […]
Read More..>>Lentil Lasagne
Although we cook this style of lentils a lot, we usually eat it with crusty bread or spaghetti rather than making it into lasagne. The original recipe was actually for lasagne though so I’m not quite sure why it’s taken us so long to get round to it. Still, I’m glad we got there eventually […]
Read More..>>Rajma – Red Kidney Bean Curry
Last week we had decided to cook a bean-based curry this week. Having had sausages last night for the first time in ages, we were in the mood for sausages again today, but bean curry it was. That probably wasn’t a very good place to start as our hearts weren’t quite in it, however we […]
Read More..>>Sausages with Roast Tomatoes and Onions
Our plans for this evening changed many times, but eventually Kerri went to the butcher and bought some lovely Cumberland style sausages (I call them “Cumberland style” rather than actual Cumberland because they are not in big coils… have had complaints about that before!). She roasted these in the oven with some cherry tomatoes, sliced […]
Read More..>>Chorizo, Beans and Kale
A fairly quick and easy dinner this evening, which was inspired by something similar that we saw on television over the weekend and then backed up by something in a Spanish cookbook. However, these both used chickpeas and there were various other different ingredients, so we are claiming this as our own. Mostly because it […]
Read More..>>Sipsmith Distillery in Hammersmith
Hidden behind a rather unassuming but freshly painted blue door on a quiet residential street in Hammersmith is something quite extraordinary – London’s first new copper still distillery for 190 years. This is the brainchild of Fairfax and Sam who, with their master distiller Jared, distil hand-crafted vodka and gin here at their curiously but […]
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