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Larry
I never knew Larry the Lamb when he was alive, but even if I had done, I don’t think I would have minded eating him anyway because he was very tasty indeed. Regular readers may remember our good friend Geraldine. Larry was next in line for being cooked on the excellent spit created by some […]
Read More..>>Beef, Chilli and Basil Stir Fry
Back on Tuesday last week, we cooked Beef, Chilli and Basil Stir Fry. We ended up being really busy and/or disorganised for the next few days so never got around to posting about it. Until now. When we’d tried stir frying with basil before, we used sweet basil (i.e. the usual European variety). Having been […]
Read More..>>Liver and Bacon
For a while we’ve been wondering if there was anything particularly Halloweeny that we could cook tonight. Eventually, we gave up and decided to have liver and bacon. Kerri picked up some calve’s liver from the butcher as well as some rather nice bacon. We fried the bacon first, then cooked the liver in the […]
Read More..>>Things en Croute
Last night we had an informal dinner party of sorts. I had four consecutive vintages of the same wine that I’d bought on trips to South Africa and wanted an excuse to open them all at once and do a comparative tasting. So this was the excuse for it. More on that later. We started […]
Read More..>>Sea Bream Marinated in White Miso
A few weeks back on Saturday Kitchen, Nic Watt cooked Sea Bream Marinated in White Miso. I have been obsessing about it ever since and we ended up buying white miso and mirin when we came across them in anticipation of making it. Last night I made the marinade and put the badly filleted sea […]
Read More..>>Lamb Stuffed with Couscous
It was only last week that we tried lamb stuffed with couscous, but we decided to try it again as we had enjoyed it so much. Much the same this time: lamb fillets stuffed with a mixture of couscous (hydrated with chicken stock), pine nuts, parsely and mint with a sprinkle of cinnamon. We didn’t […]
Read More..>>Guinea Fowl Casserole
As we seem to have been having chicken a fair amount lately, when the urge to cook chicken again struck us, we figured that guinea fowl would be an interesting alternative. We cooked this yesterday to eat today – a fairly standard casserole with the jointed guinea fowl, onion, celery, chicken stock, a dash of […]
Read More..>>Toad in the Hole
Today was the last day of British Sausage Week, so we obviously had to have sausages as we haven’t had any yet this week. We bought some herby pork sausages from our local butcher and made toad in the hole. From what I can remember, it’s the first time we’ve made it. It turned out […]
Read More..>>Smoked Salmon Pate
After our recent success with mackerel pate, we decided to try smoked salmon pate for lunch today. We used half poached salmon and half smoked salmon, which we mixed with a spoon of crème fraîche and some lemon juice and seasoned with salt and cayenne pepper. I wasn’t convinced at first, but with the addition […]
Read More..>>Beef Casserole
Strangely, on Saturday Kitchen yesterday morning, they cooked some Thai food (a Phad Thai with approximately a thousand scallops… mmmmm!) and also beef casserole. This fitted in rather well with our plans for the weekend, as we had been planning Thai food last night and beef casserole today. Spooky really. Anyway, we took it as […]
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