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Summer Pudding
We’ve made summer pudding twice recently and took a number of photographs while we did so, so here are some step-by-step, illustrated instructions in case anyone is interested in making it and hasn’t done so before. Summer pudding is quite simple to make, but it does require some forward planning. In fact, it needs to […]
Read More..>>Crunchy Pork Chops
We first ate these at a friend’s house and really enjoyed them so decided to cook them ourselves. It’s a fairly straightforward recipe by Nigella who suggests eating them with garlic spinach and a tomato salad. We had them with mustard mashed potatoes and runner beans. The mustard in the mashed potatoes complimented the chops […]
Read More..>>Baked Mackerel and Poor Man’s Potatoes
Yesterday we bought some whole mackerel and planned to do something interesting with it this evening. We have loads of thyme growing in our garden so we thought we’d use up some of that and Kerri found a really good sounding recipe. However, when we got home and started making it, we found that we […]
Read More..>>Pizza!
Pizza tonight! We made the dough, then went shopping while it rose and when we got home, all we needed to do was heat up the oven, add the ingredients and cook them. Kerri made a tomato sauce by cooking down some cherry tomatoes with garlic and oil, which worked rather well. The first pizza […]
Read More..>>Stir Fried Snow Peas
Usually I call these “sugar snap peas” but this was a Chinese style dish and they’re generally called “snow peas” in Chinese restaurants 🙂 Kerri was out this evening and I worked late and just wanted something quick when I got home. At one point on the journey I had decided on fish fingers, but […]
Read More..>>Orecchiette Puttanesca
Kerri made some puttanesca sauce on Sunday and there was some left over, so I had it tonight as she was out. I had it with some orecchiette; usually we have it with spaghetti but I thought I’d experiment and the experiment turned out rather well. It didn’t look that orange in real life; I […]
Read More..>>Empty Pies!
After a tough afternoon of standing around on a field of mown grass, punctuated every now and then by brief moments of excitement as a small red thing goes whizzing past, there is nothing better than sitting down to well earned tea. Usually consisting of sandwiches, maybe some small sausage rolls, a glass of squash, […]
Read More..>>Indian Cooking – Methi Chicken, Sag Aloo and Naan Bread
Somehow we have never cooked any Indian dishes together before, but a friend had given us some methi leaves so this was a perfect opportunity to start with methi chicken. We followed this recipe, making our own garam masala rather than buying it ready made and soon the warming aroma of roasted spice was everywhere. […]
Read More..>>Roman Chicken
Kerri had a day’s holiday today, and prepared this for when I got home, which was really nice 🙂 She’d fancied something with chicken and looked back through Dinner Diary to see what she could find. This post looked tasty, so she bought the ingredients and got to work. The result was very good indeed; […]
Read More..>>Pizza
Seems like we’ve been all about the pizza and pasta lately. If either of us had a personal trainer, I’m sure that he/she would be shouting at us right now. Anyway, that’s not the case so here we go… 🙂 When we’ve made pizza dough before, we’ve made it with what is supposedly the Pizza […]
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