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Orecchiette Puttanesca
Kerri made some puttanesca sauce on Sunday and there was some left over, so I had it tonight as she was out. I had it with some orecchiette; usually we have it with spaghetti but I thought I’d experiment and the experiment turned out rather well. It didn’t look that orange in real life; I […]
Read More..>>Empty Pies!
After a tough afternoon of standing around on a field of mown grass, punctuated every now and then by brief moments of excitement as a small red thing goes whizzing past, there is nothing better than sitting down to well earned tea. Usually consisting of sandwiches, maybe some small sausage rolls, a glass of squash, […]
Read More..>>Indian Cooking – Methi Chicken, Sag Aloo and Naan Bread
Somehow we have never cooked any Indian dishes together before, but a friend had given us some methi leaves so this was a perfect opportunity to start with methi chicken. We followed this recipe, making our own garam masala rather than buying it ready made and soon the warming aroma of roasted spice was everywhere. […]
Read More..>>Roman Chicken
Kerri had a day’s holiday today, and prepared this for when I got home, which was really nice 🙂 She’d fancied something with chicken and looked back through Dinner Diary to see what she could find. This post looked tasty, so she bought the ingredients and got to work. The result was very good indeed; […]
Read More..>>Pizza
Seems like we’ve been all about the pizza and pasta lately. If either of us had a personal trainer, I’m sure that he/she would be shouting at us right now. Anyway, that’s not the case so here we go… 🙂 When we’ve made pizza dough before, we’ve made it with what is supposedly the Pizza […]
Read More..>>Chicken Salad
Having been on holiday in Spain last week, we mostly ate meat. Then yesterday we drove up to Suffolk where I was playing cricket and I ended up eating sausages for three meals in a row – sausage and mash for lunch, barbecued sausages in the evening and then another sausage as part of an […]
Read More..>>Fred’s Spaghetti
This evening we were both rather tired, so didn’t fancy doing too much cooking and ended up making spaghetti with semi-randomly thrown together sauce. It all worked out rather well in the end. It might seem a bit egotistical to name it after myself, but it was Kerri’s idea to do so 🙂 The recipe […]
Read More..>>Mexican Barbecue
We rather enjoy having themed barbecues rather than just buying a load of assorted dead animals and throwing them onto the fire. In collaboration with some friends, we decided that a Mexican themed barbecue would definitely be worth doing. So we invited them round, did some hunting for appropriate recipes and got started. For snacks, […]
Read More..>>Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes, Broad Beans and Mint
Kerri and I had been talking about other things to do with pasta and broad beans. We have loads of mint growing in our garden too and thought that would work well with it. Kerri was out this evening though, so I threw something together quickly. I sweated some onions and garlic, then added some […]
Read More..>>Cassoulet
Cassoulet is one of those dishes that has attained a somewhat mythical aura over the years and people are sometimes surprised or disappointed that there is no “authentic” single recipe for such an iconic dish, but rather that various people or regions have different versions of it. It is of course a dish of peasant […]
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