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Guacamole
We’re on holiday this week, but I had to pop into work today. While I was out, Kerri had made some delicious guacamole. It was rather hot due to the birds eye chillies that were in it, but delicious and excellent served with toasted pita bread slices. Yum.
Read More..>>Butternut and Parsnip Risotto
For a while now, Kerri has been going on about risotto. In a good way though. She initially mentioned butternut squash risotto, which I thought would be excellent with some added sage. At some point she changed her mind to parsnip risotto, but I managed eventually to persuade her that making risotto with both parsnip […]
Read More..>>Pork Shoulder Braised in Cider
Last week Kerri had pork braised in cider for lunch in a rather good gastropub (Great Queen Street on – you guessed it – Great Queen Street in Covent Garden) and wanted to try to recreate it. We had a look around for recipes but eventually just did our own thing. We bought a boned, […]
Read More..>>Final Barbecue of the Year (Probably…)
As evidenced by yesterday’s steak and kidney pie, we seem to have moved almost completely into winter cooking mode already. However, today’s weather was rather good and it seemed like a good day to squeeze in one last barbecue (although we will of course be glad of any opportunity to have another one!). We haven’t […]
Read More..>>Steak and Kidney Pie
It’s been a while since we’ve made any sort of pie other than cottage pie, and as we’ve had to much wintery weather lately, we decided that today would be a good day for it. As it was, the weather turned out to be rather nice, but we were so excited at the prospect of […]
Read More..>>Stir Fried Scallops
A recent comment on this post made us remember that we’d really loved this recipe and should cook it again. We put in quite a few vegetables this time – green beans, baby corn and some shredded cabbage to use up what was in the fridge. It didn’t look as good because the pale cabbage […]
Read More..>>Thai Monday – Stir Fried Chilli Beef with Holy Basil…
… aka Nuer-pad-kra-prao. This recipe is from a little Thai cookbook that I don’t remember buying, but it has a price tag on it from one of the supermarkets in London’s Chinatown. It’s called Thai Traditional Cooking – The Mother’s Recipes, by Maria Kanignan Saunders, aka Kanignan Suwannalai. First, fry holy basil leaves in some […]
Read More..>>Steamed Fish
We have cooked this a couple of times before, once with tuna and once with sea bass and tonight we tried it with cod (Icelandic of course, so as not to make the poor fishies extinct). We marinated the fish in oyster sauce, soy sauce, garlic and black pepper. Then topped it with sliced onion […]
Read More..>>Roast Lamb with Caper Sauce and Boulangere Potatoes
We don’t seem to have had roast lamb for a while, so chose it for today. Kerri cut little pockets into our lamb leg and stuffed them with garlic, rosemary and anchovies. We also cooked boulangere potatoes, which are thinly sliced potatoes layered with thinly sliced onions and herbs and then cooked with milk and […]
Read More..>>Steak!
Kerri was out tonight, so I selfishly treated myself to some steak. Actually, I’d been to gym on the way home and was really very hungry when I went shopping for dinner afterwards. So steak and mustard mash it was. There was also tenderstem broccoli, but that didn’t make it into the picture. The blob […]
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