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Macaroons
While shopping earlier I happened across these beautiful looking macaroons, I bought one of each colour for us to eat this evening (plus one to eat on the way home!) and after this evenings earlier disappointment I’m glad I did. The pink one was raspberry, the white vanilla and the brown coffee; we both liked […]
Read More..>>Lemon Chicken
I found a recipe for this in this month’s Olive magazine, clipped it and added it to the pile of “Things To Cook Soon”. I’ve been at home today and asked Stephen earlier what he felt like eating for dinner; I listed this among various lamb related dishes and also sausage casserole. This was his […]
Read More..>>Geng Gari Gai
I ate this recently in Busaba Eathai and it was lovely so we thought we’d try making it ourselves. Stephen made the paste on Wednesday night and we cooked it together last night. This is the recipe from David Thompson’s “Thai Food”: 200g chicken thighs 4 medium potaotes (we used some new potatoes that were […]
Read More..>>Vongole
This is one of my favourite pasta dishes but oddly, we’ve never cooked it. I’ve been thinking a lot about quick dishes lately as we both often get home late and this seemed ideal; and ideal it was – quick and tasty which is exactly what we were trying to achieve. Fry some garlic and […]
Read More..>>Thai Steamed Seabass
While we were in China Town recently we picked up some fresh green peppercorns, Stephen bought some on a previous trip and used them to make steamed fish. We thought we’d do the same again last night as for some reason I didn’t eat the previous dish. We used sea bass fillets and coated them […]
Read More..>>Pancake
The obligatory pancake post! We didn’t do anything complicated having had quite an elaborate dinner, pancakes don’t lend themselves to healthy eating either unfortunately so we stuck to the traditional lemon and sugar. Stephen had cinnamon on his though, quite a lot as it turned out due to a mis-shake of the jar. Had we […]
Read More..>>Harissa Lamb, Tabbouleh and Tzatziki
I’m not sure where the inspiration for this came from but last night’s Masterchef contestants worked in the kitchen of a Middle-Eastern restaurant so it may have been that. I marinated the lamb pieces (from two leg steaks) in harissa for about an hour before assembling them on skewers and grilling them for about three […]
Read More..>>Five Things About Us
First off, let me talk about this picture. Having finished writing this post I realised that I didn’t have a picture to go with it and I’m not keen on posts without pictures, they look out-of-place compared to all the other posts and less interesting. I thought I’d have a hunt around for an interesting […]
Read More..>>Cheesecake
Two of my colleagues had birthdays this weekend which coincided nicely with my discovery of Pixie’s cheesecake recipe. As regular readers will know, baking isn’t really my forte but this year I’m determined to master at least one good dessert. We don’t have a food mixer but I checked with Pixie and she confirmed that […]
Read More..>>Soup
We make a fair amount of soup but rarely blog about it, I think it’s because generally it goes straight into a Tupperware ready to go to work for lunches and we don’t photograph it. Today’s offering, as is so often the case, was born out of lots of leftover vegetables lurking in the bottom […]
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