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Banger and Mash-and-Carrots-and-Kale
Bonfire night. Have to have bangers and mash according to Kerri. I heartily endorse this idea. So before a delay-ridden and noisy teenager-ridden bus trip to Alexandra Palace to watch fireworks, we tucked into this meal. The sausages were sage and onion (and pork, obviously) from the Kerri Pig. They were fairly coarse in texture, […]
Read More..>>Coddled Egg with Mushrooms, Spinach and Cheese
For my recent birthday, one of the many, many presents that I received from Kerri was an egg coddler. I had never used one before and used it for the first time on my birthday. Now, a week later, I tried it again and added mushrooms, spinach and cheese to my egg. It was really […]
Read More..>>Cheese on Toast. And Meatballs.
We both had relatively large lunches today, so decided to settle for cheese on toast for dinner. We also had some meatballs left over from last night, so decided to use those up. I piled my meatballs on top of my cheese on toast to create a sort of impromptu meatball pizza. Kerri was less […]
Read More..>>Meatballs!
Another fine dinner suggested and started by Kerri. When I got home from a gruelling session of drinking free booze and buying discounted clothing, all I needed to do (again) was get my hands all gooey making meatballs out of a “wild beef” mince, onion, breadcrumbs and herb mixture. These meatballs went into a deliciously […]
Read More..>>Fishcakes
Kerri suggested fishcakes tonight and it was a good idea. She had made most of it when I got home and all that was left for me to do was to get my hands all gooey shaping them into cakes and putting them into the breadcrumbs. They contained salmon, potato and some spinach that we […]
Read More..>>British Tapas
Being my birthday, we decided to have a party. Kerri and I had been discussing the topic of “British Tapas” for quite a while and talking about what sorts of dishes (if any) would both fit this category and be delicious. So we decided to do some experimentation and invited some people round to be […]
Read More..>>Beef Casserole
We cooked this as a wintery comfort-food dish and it worked out well. We cooked it in advance and ate it this evening after getting home from a rainy shopping, tube and bus experience. It was just the ticket. While cooking it I thought that there was too much tomato in it, it has gone […]
Read More..>>Cod and Tomato Sauce on Pasta
This wasn’t particularly successful. On its own, the tomato sauce was good. On its own, the fish was good. But put together, the tomato sauce overpowered the fish and the fish diluted the tomato sauce so nobody won. The pasta was good, but hard to pick up. Not sure what this sort of pasta is […]
Read More..>>Art Deco Lamb Cutlets
It wasn’t quite my intention to create a strange-looking design on the plate, but after a gruelling trip to IKEA (my first in fact), it somehow seemed like the right thing to do. Trimmed lamb cutlets with some steamed new potatoes and green beans. I added loads of butter to the potatoes and beans after […]
Read More..>>Pocky!
Last night we went to dinner in Chinatown and dined on various Shanghai specialties at eCapital. No alcohol-affected trip to Chinatown is complete without a post-dinner pocky trip. We visited two super-happy-fun pocky stockists and chose a selection of their finest offerings. From left to right in the picture: Men’s pocky, almond crush pocky and […]
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