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Barbecued Lamb Chops
The picture didn’t turn out that well because I got the white balance on the camera wrong, but that obviously didn’t stop them being really tasty. An impromptu barbecue this evening, I bought some lamb chops on the way home and we cooked them simply with some rosemary, garlic and salt. Just a few minutes […]
Read More..>>Chicken Goujons
A quick dinner this evening of chicken goujons and chips (last minute decision) and salad. We simply cut two chicken breasts into strips, coated them in flour and then in egg (that had mustard mixed into it) and then coated in seasoned bread crumbs. We fried them in a little olive oil, but left them […]
Read More..>>Lentil and Smoked Mackerel Salad
When I arrived home from work this evening, Kerri was busy flaking up the smoked mackerel to put into the salad, which was all that remained to be done before it was ready to eat. We have tried something like this before, but we didn’t put in the wild rice this time, which made it […]
Read More..>>Indian Barbecued Chicken and Lamb Biryani
We decided to plan ahead for Saturday and do something a little more elaborate than a mid-week meal. And while we were keen to involve the barbecue, we didn’t want that to be the sole focus of it in case it rained. So first up was barbecued chicken legs, which at a push we could […]
Read More..>>Red Thai Chicken Curry
We have been on a draconian clear-the-freezer mission lately, and as it turned out we had both chicken legs and red curry paste in there. Which meant that we needed to make red curry with chicken of course. It was shop paste rather than home made, we must admit; hence we had loads of it […]
Read More..>>Swedish Fermented Fish РSurstr̦mming
“Surströmming” translates literally as “soured herring”, which is a woefully inadequate description of the monster that is this particular Swedish delicacy. The herring is fermented in barrels for a month or two and then tinned, but continues fermenting in the tin with the result that the tins often end up bulging worryingly and some airlines […]
Read More..>>Alsace Tasting – Green and Blue
Last night, Kerri and I went to to an Alsace wine tasting at Green and Blue in East Dulwich. We have been there before for a rather intruiging wine and chocolate tasting and were excited about going back, so much so that on the evening of an impending Tube strike, we ventured out there without […]
Read More..>>Barbecued Steak
Another lovely day today, too good not to have a barbecue. After a hard day of lying around in the park, reading, sunbathing and generally not doing very much too energetic, we lit the barbecue and cooked some lovely ribeye steaks. We also cooked some mushrooms on the barbecue, topped with garlic and parsley butter. […]
Read More..>>Barbecue Pizza Second Attempt
After last week’s barbecue pizza attempt which was really tastybut not perfect, we decided to try again to see if we could perfect it. We wanted the fire hotter this time, to try to get it to cook more quickly and blister the edges of the base a bit. The fire was hotter, but still […]
Read More..>>Barbecued Chicken Kebabs
Given the success of Friday’s barbecued lamb kebabs, we tried a similar thing today with chicken. We still have loads of oregano, so used that again, with a little oil, garlic, lemon juice and salt and pepper. The weather taunted us a little, changing from bright sunshine to cloudy and back and by the time […]
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