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Below are some of the food related pictures we took on our recent holiday to Cape Town. Chicken with mustard and mushroom sauce – the recipe called for salmon-trout but we couldn’t find any so used chicken instead. It turned out well but the sauce would have benefitted from thickening. Stephen used the leftover sauce […]
Read More..>>Peppers Stuffed with Chunky Chilli
Over the weekend we cooked some chunky chilli and froze it to eat this week. We had it tonight, stuffed into peppers and baked in the oven. It was tasty but not mind-blowing. We could have left the peppers in a bit longer but we were worried about drying out the chilli that was in […]
Read More..>>Pork Chops
Contining our quest to cook the perfect pork chops and to eat healthily, we chose pork chops for dinner this evening. We did them with the same rub we used last time: garlic, salt, rosemary and bay. We pan fried them slowly as they were really big and served them with mashed sweet potato, green […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti, Prawns and Rocket
Deja Vu? Yes, we had the same dish last week, but we decided to try it again and improve it. Ironically, it was also the day that we decided that we should cook more different dishes more often. It was worth it though, we added more tomato and it worked well; a little too much […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
There’s not much I can say about roast chicken that I haven’t said before. We eat it a lot, especially on a Sunday. We always cook it much the same way, salt and pepper on the outside and inside the carcass. Olive oil on the outside. Some combination of garlic, onion, lemon and herbs inside […]
Read More..>>Sausages and Mash
Today it was really cold on the way home. Which meant that we had very little choice other than to have sausages and mash for dinner. So Cumberland sausages with mustardy mash and onion and red wine gravy it was. We had winter greens and brocolli (not pictured) too. The gravy was fruity (from the […]
Read More..>>Lamb Kofta Sandwich
I was really lucky again this evening – arriving home to the smell of something delicious cooking. Kerri had made lamb koftas, fried halloumi and aubergine. I put this all into a toasted pita bread along with some lettuce and tomato to make a sandwich. It was really tasty and just what I needed. The […]
Read More..>>Lentils and Pizza Toast…
…but not together, obviously. Stephen had the lentilly thing because they’re just too hippy for me, I had the pizza toast because, well…any excuse really 🙂 Pizza toast was just half a cook-at-home ciabatta loaf with cheese and the last of the birthday chorizo. As tasty as ever. Can’t remember what Stephen did to the […]
Read More..>>Steak and Mash
I have a weakness for mash. Especially mustardy, buttery mash. So I am quite happy to have it with almost anything. Kerri was out yesterday evening, so I had steak with mustardy, buttery mash. The mash was really good. The steak was average; I should have been more selective when buying it and should also […]
Read More..>>Beef Casserole and Baked Camembert
A couple of days ago we decided to make a casserole for future consumption. Where “future” means “after a night out and are really hungry but can’t be bothered to cook”. The night out in question was last night and I had a small helping then, but we ate the rest of it tonight. The […]
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