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Chicken Salad
Having been on holiday in Spain last week, we mostly ate meat. Then yesterday we drove up to Suffolk where I was playing cricket and I ended up eating sausages for three meals in a row – sausage and mash for lunch, barbecued sausages in the evening and then another sausage as part of an […]
Read More..>>Fred’s Spaghetti
This evening we were both rather tired, so didn’t fancy doing too much cooking and ended up making spaghetti with semi-randomly thrown together sauce. It all worked out rather well in the end. It might seem a bit egotistical to name it after myself, but it was Kerri’s idea to do so 🙂 The recipe […]
Read More..>>Mexican Barbecue
We rather enjoy having themed barbecues rather than just buying a load of assorted dead animals and throwing them onto the fire. In collaboration with some friends, we decided that a Mexican themed barbecue would definitely be worth doing. So we invited them round, did some hunting for appropriate recipes and got started. For snacks, […]
Read More..>>Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes, Broad Beans and Mint
Kerri and I had been talking about other things to do with pasta and broad beans. We have loads of mint growing in our garden too and thought that would work well with it. Kerri was out this evening though, so I threw something together quickly. I sweated some onions and garlic, then added some […]
Read More..>>Cassoulet
Cassoulet is one of those dishes that has attained a somewhat mythical aura over the years and people are sometimes surprised or disappointed that there is no “authentic” single recipe for such an iconic dish, but rather that various people or regions have different versions of it. It is of course a dish of peasant […]
Read More..>>Halloumi
Several months ago, we had a griddle pan but it wasn’t a particularly good one. It was a non-stick one which still managed to stick, and it had quite shallow, wide ridges, which didn’t seem to work that well for griddling. At some point it mysteriously disappeared never to be seen again. Every now and […]
Read More..>>Barbecued Steak!
With the weather promising to be sunny and warm today, we were off to a good start. Periodically, evil clouds would float across the sky, but luckily only obscured the sun for short periods and it was still warm in the late afternoon. Kerri had been home and put potatoes into the oven to bake […]
Read More..>>Sausages and Mash!
It seems like years since we had sausages and mash. It has been months at least. Tonight we bought some Duchy Original sausages which, after much experimentation, had decided were the best that could be bought from Sainsbury’s (which is where we found ourselves). We were a bit apprehensive this time because, during our absence […]
Read More..>>Thai Monday Part 7 – Beef Panang
Being a bank holiday today, we took some time to make something for another instalment in the recently neglected Thai Monday series. We chose Beef Panang this time, which is a Thai curry that includes peanuts as well as both coconut milk and coconut cream. We started by making the paste as usual; this one […]
Read More..>>Cheese Salad
Kerri was out tonight and I was in the mood for something healthy. Mostly due to a late night last night. We did have rather a lot of salad at home waiting to be eaten and on the way home I was thinking of cooking something interesting and having salad with it. The more I […]
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