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Chicken and Meringue (not together)
Last night, we had people over for dinner and decided to cook Jamie’s chicken in pastry. After making up a dough of flour and water, the seasoned (garlic, lemon, sage and thyme) chickens are encased in pastry and baked in the oven for an hour. Once they’re ready, the pastry is broken open and discarded […]
Read More..>>Chicken Fajitatatatas
We sort of made this up as we went along. Marinated the chicken pieces in some olive oil, lime juice, chilli, coriander, garlic, salt and pepper. Fried it off in the wok, removed to a plate, fried off the red onion and peppers and then served with corn wraps, tomato salsa and sour cream. Could […]
Read More..>>Honey and Mustard Salmon
This was my idea and something I used to cook quite a lot, it didn’t come out the same as it used to though. I think it’s because I usually cook fish for twice as long as it actually needs as I’m so scared of fish poisoning. The extra cooking time means the honey goes […]
Read More..>>Mushroom and Thyme Risotto
Tonight, we had planned to have salmon fillets for dinner but we were cold and hungry. Stephen found this Jamie Oliver recipe in The Naked Chef, we had all the ingredients so we left the salmon in the fridge. It was really good.
Read More..>>Cabbage and Bacon Galette
This is a recipe we’ve been wanting to try for ages, from Joanne Harris’ French Kitchen. It uses a sort of batter made from bacon, shallots, garlic, parsley, flour and milk. This is spooned into a dish, topped with steamed savoy cabbage and finished with another layer of the batter; it’s then baked in the […]
Read More..>>Holiday
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 […]
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