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Spaghetti Puttanesca (Almost)
After our lamb shanks last night, we ended up with some left over ingredients: half a tin of anchovies and half a tin of tomatoes. Kerri pointed out that that was the beginnings of puttanesca sauce which we have cooked many times before and love, so we stuck with that idea. Compared to our usual […]
Read More..>>Lamb Shanks with Sauteed Potatoes
After yesterday’s kitchen nightmare, we were determined to do better today. And we did, which is good but isn’t actually saying very much. We did start off with a slight worry though when we re-read the recipe and found that it said to cook for 12 hours. Twelve hours is a long time. And also […]
Read More..>>Scallops with Cauliflower Purée and Truffle Oil and Partridges with Rosti and Mushrooms
The title makes this meal sound rather like something from a good brasserie menu. However, this would have been a brasserie with Basil Fawlty at the helm as it turned out. Let’s start with the scallops. Both because we had them as a starter and also for reasons which will become clear later. We thought […]
Read More..>>Pappardelle with Rabbit
Yesterday we cooked rabbit casserole, and part of Kerri’s great rabbit-related master plan was to make left over casserole into pasta sauce today. We reduced the leftover casserole down until the liquid was about a third of the original amount. We shredded the meat, then returned it to the reduced liquid and added about 150ml […]
Read More..>>Lamb Chops with Special Tabouleh
We’ve started cheating with our photographs. We’ve bought one of these. It’s magical. It makes it seem like daylight when it’s clearly night time. Now we just have to become good at photography to make good use of it. Anyway, back to the food, which is what this is all about. We cooked lamb chops […]
Read More..>>Steak with Horseradish Mashed Potatoes
Firstly let me say that this steak tasted better than it looks in the picture. The picture looks a bit like a really old post card or one of those nasty, faded pictures of food that some cafes and restaurants ill-advisedly put in their window. And it does look rather like a badly cooked steak […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti with Cabbage, Chilli and Anchovies
We’ve cooked spaghetti with bacon and cabbage before, so when we were wondering what to do with the cabbage in our fridge, we decided to try a variation on the theme. In order to keep it relatively healthy, we went for chilli and anchovies rather than bacon. It wasn’t as successful as the version with […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
Tonight we were planning to have a beef stir fry, but we ended up eating the steak last night. We had a chicken which we were going to joint and then use the breasts for the stir fry (and keep the legs for later), but as Kerri was home a bit early today she thought […]
Read More..>>Steak Sandwich
A fairly simple dinner tonight as I’d been playing cricket but got home a lot earlier then I usually do, and we realised that we actually had some time to cook something but hadn’t planned anything. So we “borrowed” the steak from tomorrow’s dinner, cooked that to nice and pink, then sliced it up and […]
Read More..>>Angels on Horseback and Plaice with Nut-Brown Butter
Tonight we decided to cook ourselves a special dinner. Seeing as we are on holiday this week, we had some time to shop for ingredients today and start preparing early. We were trying to think of dishes that would fit in well with British Food Fortnight, and after browsing various cook books, we ended up […]
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