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Roast Chicken and Potato and Jerusalem Artichoke Dauphinoise
When I arrived home this evening, I was greeted by the wonderful aroma of dauphinoise cooking. This wasn’t just any dauphinoise though; along with the potatoes it contained jerusalem artichokes. Also there was a roast chicken. Yum. So that all made for the second really long title as many posts. The jerusalem artichokes added a […]
Read More..>>Prawn and Vegetable Gyoza Dumplings with Marinated Carrot and Cucumber Salads
At our recent Chinese New Year dinner, our friends gave us some left-over gyoza wrappers in case we wanted to make our own. Which we did! So this evening when I arrived home, Kerri had minced some prawns and mixed them with chopped spring onions, water chestnuts, carrots and celery in an approximation of this […]
Read More..>>Rosemary Lamb Chops with Sautéed Potatoes
Firstly before I forget, we recently decided to come out of the closet in a manner of speaking. I’m sure that regular readers have noticed the change in our names on the site. We’ve grown quite attached to our pseudonyms of Fred and Ginger over the past two years and a bit, but finally decided […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken Ballotine and Perfect Roast Potatoes
Last week, one of the Maaaaasterchef contestants cooked chicken ballotine for his main course. It was a lot to take on and, given that he also had a starter and a main course to make, he sadly didn’t quite get everything finished in time. However, out of that sadness came some good because it made […]
Read More..>>Pizza Fiorentina
Friday night is pizza night! Not always, but sometimes. This was one of those sometimes. Often we have fantastic success with pizza, but this wasn’t one of those times. Keeping in mind last time where the dough was very sticky, we added a bit more flour this time, but it just made the base rather […]
Read More..>>Slow Roast Shoulder of Lamb
We have cooked slow roast shoulder of lamb a couple of times in the past and it always looms large in our memories as one of the tastiest meals that we can remember, especially considering that it’s so easy to prepare. Kerri’s family came to visit today and so we gladly took the opportunity to […]
Read More..>>Scottage Pie – Haggis in a Cottage Pie
It is Burns Night tomorrow, but we are otherwise occupied, so we had to cook haggis tonight. We tried a twist on the idea though – doing it in a cottage pie style, with the haggis filling underneath and mashed tatties and neeps (i.e. potatoes and swede) on top. We chopped up a couple of […]
Read More..>>Liver and Bacon Mash
Having watched Masterchef again last night where two of the contestants cooked liver and bacon, we both really started to crave it. We had to give it a bit of a twist though, so we put bacon into our mashed potato rather than having separate rashers of bacon. You can’t see a lot of it […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti with Anchovies, Chilli, Garlic, Brussels Sprouts and Walnuts
After quite a long run of successes and almost-successes, we were due for a dismal failure some time soon and this was it. In a strange series of coincidences, we had arrived at the idea for the dish by instant messenger conversation and had typed each of the ingredients at exactly the same time as […]
Read More..>>Lamb Chops with Salsa Verde and Rioja Beans
I know, a big pile of lamb chops and a big pot of beans aren’t really on the strict path of the straight-and-narrow with regards to the healthy eating that we are trying to do over the next few weeks, but we need to ease ourselves in slowly. The beans were quite low in fat, […]
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