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Barbecued Lamb Leg
Because of the the brilliant weather we’ve had lately, we just had to barbecue. Recently a colleague was telling me about a leg of lamb that he had cooked on the barbecue and how good it was, so when Kerri suggested the same thing, it just had to be done. We had a half leg […]
Read More..>>Impromptu Sausage and Mustard Pasta
Ingredients: See method. Method: Wander around the shop wondering what to have until you see some nice-looking sausages. Buy them and take them home without much idea of what you are going to do with them. On the way, mull things over and decide on some sort of pasta-related dish. When you get home, open […]
Read More..>>Thai Monday Part 6 – Spicy Minced Chicken Salad (Larp Gai)…
…and hot and sour soup of clams with chillies and lime (tom yam hoi nahm sai). It’s been a while since we’ve done our supposedly weekly Thai Monday, so over the weekend we hastily chose a couple of recipes and bought what we needed to. First up was Hot and Sour Soup of Clams with […]
Read More..>>Spiced Lamb Shanks with Olives
Continuing our weekend of Spanish food, we cooked this dish from The Real Taste of Spain. It is a dish from Andalucia in southern Spain, influenced by the Moorish occupation centuries ago, hence its spicy flavours. Luckily, we read the recipe yesterday and realised that the lamb shanks needed to be rubbed with the spice […]
Read More..>>Spanish Seafood Stew
We decided on something of a Spanish theme this weekend and chose a recipe from one of each of the Spanish cookbooks that we have; this one is from “The Food of Northern Spain”. We’ve cooked something similar before and thought we’d give it another go. This version contained mussels, and since we could only […]
Read More..>>Thai Beef Salad
A quick and easy dinner tonight. We’ve both been really busy at work lately and this week we were planning to rely on dishes that we’d previously cooked and frozen: lentils, chilli and the like. However, we felt like something a bit lighter, yet still substantial tonight. So, Thai Beef salad it was. We very […]
Read More..>>Sushi
A short while ago we decided to make sushi and invited some friends around for the evening. We started planning a few extra things to make apart from the sushi itself, but soon we ended up with loads of extra things with the sushi almost taking a back seat, but not quite. We started preparing […]
Read More..>>Fajita-Chicken Salad
While we didn’t have the camera, we made chicken fajitas which turned out rather well. The chicken in particular was really good, and we were wondering what else we could do with chicken cooked in that way. Tonight we made salad, and decided that fajita-style chicken would go well with it. We sliced two chicken […]
Read More..>>Thai Mondays Part 5: Stir Fried Pork with Beans and Green Peppercorns
Last week Kerri had lunch at a Thai restaurant and had a dish that she really enjoyed, which was beef with chilli, lemongrass, basil and a few other things. We had a look for recipe that was similar and, by happy coincidence, I had already bookmarked a recipe that contained most of those ingredients and […]
Read More..>>Fish Pie
Being Good Friday today, Kerri wanted to cook fish pie. We found a tasty sounding recipe in a newly acquired cook book called Fish, subtitled “Recipes From a Busy Island”. It’s a National Trust book and is geared towards responsible and sustainable fish recipes. The recipe was called “Tweed Salmon, Smoked Haddock and Langoustine Pie […]
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