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Leftover Roast Chicken
Knowing we would have leftovers from yesterday’s roast chicken, I planned this in advance, based on something we ate last year. Stephen isn’t feeling very well this evening so, since it was just me eating, the temptation to eat something quick and easy was strong. Not wanting to waste the best part of half a […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
While staying with my mum, I remembered that last time I had visited, I froze a roast chicken. I can’t remember why, I suspect we just made other plans for lunch but, knowing it was there, I decided I would roast it on Friday night. I defrosted it slowly overnight but, when it came to […]
Read More..>>East Quay – Whitstable
A bit of a backlog of posts, since I’ve been staying in Kent with my mum. Stephen came down for the weekend and, since it wasn’t raining, we drove down to Whitstable for the day. We decided to have lunch at a place Stephen and I first ate at years, ago: East Quay, which is […]
Read More..>>Black Eyed Beans with Mushrooms
Knowing we would both be home late tonight, we cooked this on Sunday so that all we had to do was reheat it when we got home this evening. I wasn’t entirely convinced about this when Stephen suggested it but since I didn’t have an alternative suggestion, we decided to give it a go. My […]
Read More..>>Chicken Tagine
We had originally planned to cook this Moroccan recipe from Jamie Oliver’s new “Jamie Does…” cookbook last week but the “marinate and refrigerate overnight” foiled us. The same thing nearly happened today but luckily we realised in time and, rather than eat this for lunch as planned, we ate it for dinner instead. Not quite […]
Read More..>>Mexican Burgers
We’ve been eating sensibly and upping our gym attendance this week so felt like we deserved a treat on Friday night. We haven’t had burgers for a while and I wanted to play with the recipe, creating something spicy and different to the relatively plain beef burgers we usually eat. I started off with a […]
Read More..>>Cannellini Bean Bruschetta
Isn’t the Internet brilliant? Not only can you check the weather (which I do at least 10 times a day as soon as the clocks change) and buy shoes but you can talk to people online about a whole host of subjects. While I’m not sure how I ever lived without it, I am sure […]
Read More..>>Watercress and Wild Garlic Soup and Rack of Lamb
I went to Borough Market on Friday, primarily to replenish some Mexican ingredients we’ve run out of but also to find something for Sunday’s dinner. While I was there, I also spotted some wild garlic which I’ve never seen before. I wasn’t sure what to do with it but at some point it struck us […]
Read More..>>Sort-Of Nicoise Salad
Eeek, doesn’t that look dryer than a dry thing? It really wasn’t though but perhaps that’s because I added lots of extra dressing when I sat down to eat. So, I wanted to eat asparagus tonight because, you know, it’s in season and we love it and it doesn’t hang around for long. Then I […]
Read More..>>Chickpea Curry
As we weren’t lounging in the sun yesterday, we decided to make the most of the time and prepare something for tonight’s dinner. We hadn’t planned on cooking anything so had to make do with what we had in the cupboards. Stephen suggested a curry made with pulses and this, from Camelia Panjabi’s book, fitted […]
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