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Lamb Stuffed with Couscous
It was only last week that we tried lamb stuffed with couscous, but we decided to try it again as we had enjoyed it so much. Much the same this time: lamb fillets stuffed with a mixture of couscous (hydrated with chicken stock), pine nuts, parsely and mint with a sprinkle of cinnamon. We didn’t […]
Read More..>>Guinea Fowl Casserole
As we seem to have been having chicken a fair amount lately, when the urge to cook chicken again struck us, we figured that guinea fowl would be an interesting alternative. We cooked this yesterday to eat today – a fairly standard casserole with the jointed guinea fowl, onion, celery, chicken stock, a dash of […]
Read More..>>Toad in the Hole
Today was the last day of British Sausage Week, so we obviously had to have sausages as we haven’t had any yet this week. We bought some herby pork sausages from our local butcher and made toad in the hole. From what I can remember, it’s the first time we’ve made it. It turned out […]
Read More..>>Smoked Salmon Pate
After our recent success with mackerel pate, we decided to try smoked salmon pate for lunch today. We used half poached salmon and half smoked salmon, which we mixed with a spoon of crème fraîche and some lemon juice and seasoned with salt and cayenne pepper. I wasn’t convinced at first, but with the addition […]
Read More..>>Beef Casserole
Strangely, on Saturday Kitchen yesterday morning, they cooked some Thai food (a Phad Thai with approximately a thousand scallops… mmmmm!) and also beef casserole. This fitted in rather well with our plans for the weekend, as we had been planning Thai food last night and beef casserole today. Spooky really. Anyway, we took it as […]
Read More..>>Thai Banquet
We’d been planning to go to Oriental City last night and buy ingredients for a Thai banquet; we didn’t end up going but managed to scavenge enough ingredients from the shops of Fulham to put it together anyway. First up were prawn crackers. Friends of ours had actually bought these for us from Oriental City […]
Read More..>>Sake-Steamed Sea Bass with Ginger
After recent attempts at Japanese cooking, we tried again. This time, we tried sake-steamed sea bass with ginger. I’ve been getting used to going to our fishmonger, buying a whole fish and proudly heading home with it as if I’d caught it myself, then barbecuing or roasting it whole. I bought a whole sea bass […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti with Meatballs
I was out tonight and when I got home, Kerri had cooked meatballs and spaghetti. We’ve had these once or twice before. Kerri didn’t like them this time, but I didn’t think they were too bad; needed a bit more seasoning and depth of flavour perhaps. Funny how you can try the same recipe more […]
Read More..>>Pizza!
We’d been planning pizza for tonight for a week or so. So we got home this afternoon and made the pizza dough, kneaded it and left it to rise for an hour while we wandered off to the local wine shop where they had some Australian winemakers visiting to show their wines. They were from […]
Read More..>>Lemongrass Beef Stirfry
We’ve been rather fond of grilled marinated lemongrass beef in the past and today we decided to try including marinated lemongrass beef in a stir fry and we were pleasantly surprised at how well it worked. We mashed up two thirds of a stalk of lemongrass in the mortar and pestle with a clove of […]
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