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Marinated Cucumber and Wild Boar Chops with Noodles
On Saturday, while searching for lamb shanks, I also discovered some wild boar chops and of course had to buy them. My memory told me that the sign had said that they were marinated in sesame and ginger, so we planned some Oriental side dishes. On opening the chops, we found bits of thyme in […]
Read More..>>Almost Pizza
Last night we decided to make pizza. We’ve done it quite successfully a few times before, so had no reason to believe that this time would be any different. But it was different. The dough just didn’t work out very well. We guessed at many reasons for this, ranging from the yeast being old to […]
Read More..>>Pre-Christmas Dinner
Yesterday, Kerri and I visited my sister’s family, where we had a sort of pre-Christmas dinner. To start with, my sister cooked some asparagus wrapped in Parma ham. These were cooked in the oven until the ham was just a bit crispy, which turned out rather well. For main course, we had brought along salmon […]
Read More..>>Pork and Paprika Casserole
This was a Spanish-inspired dish, but not made from any particular recipe. Winter has very definitely set in and we have been craving all sorts of comfort stodge, which is unfortunately at odds with our attempts at eating healthily. This dish seemed like it would give us the comfort factor without the calorie-high and vitamin-light […]
Read More..>>Dinner at Friends
Last night, we went to visit friends for dinner and enjoyed a veritable feast. We started with prawn crackers, accompanied by some rather good Champagne: Then came the spring rolls which were filled with (if I remember correctly) pak choi, bean sprouts, rice vermicelli and mushrooms: Then came the main courses, which included… Scallops with […]
Read More..>>Steak with Mushrooms and Onions
Last night, after a long week, we cooked steak with mushrooms and onions. The steak was a rather large rump steak from our local butcher that we pan fried and shared between the two of us. The mushrooms were a combination of some ordinary chestnut mushrooms and a selection of wild mushrooms, also fried with […]
Read More..>>Jerusalem Artichokes with Green Beans and Hazelnuts
We had some jerusalem artichokes left over from the weekend and decided to use them up this week. A few years ago, in a gastropub, I had a salad that contained green beans, jerusalem artichokes and hazelnuts. It may have had something else in it too, but I couldn’t remember what it was so when […]
Read More..>>Black and White Tuna
Actually, the tuna wasn’t black and white, it was brown (on the outside) and red (on the inside). It was the sesame seeds that were black and white. Friends of ours cooked something like this recently and it looked so good that we had to have a go too. They had a really brilliant plate […]
Read More..>>Stir Fried Beef and Basil
We haven’t posted for a few days as we were away over the weekend. When we got back, cooked roast beef but didn’t end up taking a picture of it because we were rather hungry and just started eating. Luckily we managed to restrain ourselves enough to leave some beef for a stir fry today. […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken, Stuffing and Roast Potatoes
Today we cooked a roast chicken, for five people. We bought a rather large chicken and cooked it upside down so that it wouldn’t dry out. We had intended to turn it over for the last twenty minutes, but forgot. So the result was that it was tasty and moist, but didn’t look very photogenic. […]
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