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Japanese Scallops
Having been to Bincho Yakitori last week and had many very, very delicious Japanese style bits of meat and fish on sticks, we decided to try our own. We tried with scallops and marinated them in soy, honey, sake and a little oil. We lacked a charcoal grill, so cooked them in a frying pan. […]
Read More..>>Sea Bass with Fennel and Lemon
Last night Kerri was out, so I was just cooking for myself. I decided on some sort of fish with fennel and found a recipe that included lemons too. Armed with a wild sea bass, one large fennel bulb, a few small fennel bulbs and a lemon, I went to work. I chopped up the […]
Read More..>>Chicken Casserole
Yesterday Kerri made chicken casserole with stock that we’d made on Saturday. Today we reheated it and had it for dinner and it was really good. It had a lovely depth of very chickeny flavour and it was just the thing to have on a rather chilly evening. Winter appears to be arriving and we […]
Read More..>>Fajitas
Neither of us were feelng particularly inspired about dinner tonight, but a couple of days ago we’d discussed fajitas so had them tonight. We had them in a bit of a hurry too, which meant that I forgot to marinate the chicken before cooking it and they didn’t have a lot of flavour. Something to […]
Read More..>>Salmon Fishcakes with Horseradish
Last time we made salmon fishcakes, they were a great success and we were keen to repeat that success. We had bought some horseradish on the weekend and were keen to use that too, so we grated some into the fishcakes and also made some creamed horseradish sauce. I’m sad to report that the fishcakes […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
Mmmmmmm roast chicken. A Label Anglaise chicken from our local butcher, roasted and served with roast potatoes, runner beans, savoy cabbage and carrots. And those strange things on the top left of the picture are jerusalem artichokes; they look deep fried but they were done with the potatoes. And gravy of course. Mmmmm gravy. The […]
Read More..>>Beef and Water Chestnut Stir Fry
Kerri wanted to cook water chestnuts tonight and we didn’t have any and Waitrose didn’t have any when she went shopping there. So I volunteered to get some on the way home. I visited about 10 shops on the way home and only found them in the last one. I hadn’t thought they’d be that […]
Read More..>>Monkfish
We bought two rather large monkfish tail fillets from our fishmonger today. Our attempt at griddling them wasn’t too successful, so we have decided to buy a new griddle pan; it must be the pan rather than us! That said though, they were really good. Meaty fish with a distinctive flavour. The brown bits were […]
Read More..>>Barbecued Fish
Our second barbecue in as many days! It seemed like a waste not to barbecue on any rain-free weekend days, so we bought some fish to burn. It was a pink / red sea bream this time – the first time I remember having one. We bought it from a local fishmonger and when he […]
Read More..>>Thai Skewers
A few days ago, we planned to have Thai lemongrass beef skewers tonight and hadn’t planned much else. Today we decided to have chicken satay as well, to follow the skewer theme. We managed to plan all of this without so much as a thought to anything non-meat related and this lack of thought continued […]
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