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Thai Beef Salad
A quick and easy dinner tonight. We’ve both been really busy at work lately and this week we were planning to rely on dishes that we’d previously cooked and frozen: lentils, chilli and the like. However, we felt like something a bit lighter, yet still substantial tonight. So, Thai Beef salad it was. We very […]
Read More..>>Sushi
A short while ago we decided to make sushi and invited some friends around for the evening. We started planning a few extra things to make apart from the sushi itself, but soon we ended up with loads of extra things with the sushi almost taking a back seat, but not quite. We started preparing […]
Read More..>>Fajita-Chicken Salad
While we didn’t have the camera, we made chicken fajitas which turned out rather well. The chicken in particular was really good, and we were wondering what else we could do with chicken cooked in that way. Tonight we made salad, and decided that fajita-style chicken would go well with it. We sliced two chicken […]
Read More..>>Thai Mondays Part 5: Stir Fried Pork with Beans and Green Peppercorns
Last week Kerri had lunch at a Thai restaurant and had a dish that she really enjoyed, which was beef with chilli, lemongrass, basil and a few other things. We had a look for recipe that was similar and, by happy coincidence, I had already bookmarked a recipe that contained most of those ingredients and […]
Read More..>>Fish Pie
Being Good Friday today, Kerri wanted to cook fish pie. We found a tasty sounding recipe in a newly acquired cook book called Fish, subtitled “Recipes From a Busy Island”. It’s a National Trust book and is geared towards responsible and sustainable fish recipes. The recipe was called “Tweed Salmon, Smoked Haddock and Langoustine Pie […]
Read More..>>Thai Odyssey Part 4 – Mussel and Ginger Soup and Squid Salad
Given the success of last time’s soup and salad combination, we decided to give it another try. Normally on Sundays we have some sort of roast and Thai Monday happens on… Monday. But as I’m out tomorrow evening, we decided to have Thai Sunday instead. This time, the salad was squid salad, aka yam pla […]
Read More..>>Thai Odyssey Part 3 – Jungle Curry of Duck
Jungle Curry. About twelve or thirteen years ago I tasted jungle curry for the first time. At the time I thought it mind-bendingly hot and ate it at about one spoonful per minute, sweating furiously all the time and drinking gallons of water between mouthfuls. However, a week later I found myself craving it again. […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti with Bacon and Cabbage
When I arrived home this evening, I arrived to the wonderful smell of lardons frying. Kerri was making spaghetti with lardons and cabbage. When the lardons had fried for a while, we added sliced red onion and crushed garlic with a good grind of pepper. We cooked these until the onion had softened, then added […]
Read More..>>Thai Odyssey Part 2 – Hot and Sour Soup of Shredded Chicken and Lemongrass…
… accompanied by Vermicelli Salad. Phew, rather a long title for two relatively simple (but delicious) dishes. I really love this picture that Kerri took of the soup; the coriander leaves floating on the surface look a little like lilly pads on the surface of a pond: This picture of the salad turned out well, […]
Read More..>>Pork Chops, Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Parsnips
Bit of a mish-mash (geddit?!) tonight as we were trying to use up vegetables from the weekend. We had lots of leftover potatoes, leeks and kale so Stephen suggested pork chops with mashed potatoes and the vegetables. I thought it would be more interesting to mix the vegetables up so I did that while he […]
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