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Chinese New Year
Last night, we celebrated a belated Chinese New Year with some friends. We knew the food was going to be good but we didn’t realise just how good. We started with gyoza which were cooked in the Japanese style: browned in a frying pan before being transferred to the oven. These were outstanding, crispy skins […]
Read More..>>Coffee and Walnut Cake
I was quite pleased with how this worked out, despite it’s somewhat lopsided appearance. I’m not a very experienced baker so I’m not sure why this happened, perhaps I had the oven too hot? I followed a Delia Smith recipe, best to stick to basics when you’re not that confident in your ability was my […]
Read More..>>Lentil Cottage Pie
I’m really pleased with the way this turned out, especially as it was a very last minute decision. Stephen and I had decided that we would have something meat-free tonight as our meat intake has been so high lately. We didn’t have anything specific in mind but, while browsing other food blogs this afternoon, I […]
Read More..>>Chorizo and Butterbean Soup
On the way home from dinner last night, we realised that we didn’t have anything planned to eat this evening. I suggested we soak some butterbeans and find something to do with them today. It was doomed to failure from the start really, I like to plan meals in advance and don’t really work very […]
Read More..>>The Cabin
We had planned to eat leftover lamb this evening but we didn’t actually have any left. Plan B saw us defrosting some chicken breasts and eating those with salad and pitta bread instead. It just didn’t feel right though; admittedly today was a mild and sunny day that gave me hope spring was on it’s […]
Read More..>>Chocolate Mousse
As Stephen mentioned, my family came to visit today and requested chocolate mousse for dessert, they were particularly interested in the Baileys mousse we made recently so we made up two of those. We also made two with Cointreau which I preferred – the combination of chocolate and orange is one of my favourites. We […]
Read More..>>Chorizo and Beans
When I started cooking this I intended for it to become a soup. I didn’t follow a particular recipe but took inspiration from Jenny Chandler’s “The Food of Northern Spain” and Jonathan’s Chorizo, butterbean and passata stew. The end result was closer to Jonathan’s dish as I left it to reduce right down until it […]
Read More..>>Lentils with Spaghetti and Rice
It’s not often that Stephen and I have different dinners (unless something goes wrong and he perseveres with the wrongness while I reach for the toast) but tonight he fancied rice and I fancied pasta. I probably should have had rice too since we had spaghetti last night but, as much as I like rice, […]
Read More..>>Puttanesca
There’s not much we can say about this that we haven’t said before and we toyed with the idea of not posting it at all but, given that this is a diary of our dinners, here it is. We both got home late this evening and didn’t have any plans for dinner. This is very […]
Read More..>>Chicken Casserole
We’ve not had this for a while, which is odd considering it’s so cold outside and this is perfect comfort food. It’s relatively healthy too which is appropriate as we are both trying to be more conscious about what we eat. Stephen jointed a chicken yesterday and I used the carcass to make stock today, […]
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