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Smoked Trout Pate and Guacamole
Although we should have been eating salad last night, we didn’t. Instead, we had some smoked trout pate (smoked trout, cream cheese, lemon juice, s&p, cayenne) with brown bread and some guacamole (made to our usual recipe) with nachos.
Read More..>>Salad
Tonight we had salad. It wasn’t worthy of a picture. If we go quiet for a while you’ll know it’s because we’re eating salad. See you soon 🙂
Read More..>>Boxing Day Bubble and Squeak
Unsurprisingly, we had a huge amount of leftover food on Boxing Day. This pleased me though because as much as I love Christmas lunch, I also love, love, love leftovers. Particularly leftovers that can be turned into Bubble and Squeak. Luckily I’m not alone, my family agree (my mum says it was always an easy […]
Read More..>>Christmas Lunch
We spent Christmas with my mum and cooked lunch for the three of us there. As there was only the three of us we had chicken instead of turkey which we prefer anyway. The chicken was cooked in our usual way, rubbed with oil and salt and pepper and stuffed with herbs, lemon, onion and […]
Read More..>>Mackerel Tart
On Christmas Eve, we travelled to my mum’s and took along with us the ingredients to make mackerel tart. We forgot the cream though so had to make do with milk which worked ok but resulted in a slightlier runnier tart than normal. Sweat off some onions and garlic, add mackerel, spinach, Feta, s&p, nutmeg […]
Read More..>>Chicken and Roasted Vegetables
Stephen bought some chicken legs and thighs for a casserole a couple of weeks ago but we didn’t get round to making it so froze them. In an effort to clear out the fridge before Christmas, we used them up this evening. We browned the chicken pieces before adding them to some vegetables, wine and […]
Read More..>>Pigeon Casserole
This didn’t turn out brilliantly as we over-cooked the pigeon, shame because everything else was brilliant. Brown pigeon and remove from the pan (we forgot to do this) Saute lardons, onions, garlic, celery and carrot Return browned pigeon to the pan, add red wine, stock and herbs (we used thyme, bay, parsley and parsley stalks) […]
Read More..>>Oysters and Red Mullet and Clam Casserole
We both felt like fish last night and decided on a fish casserole using red mullet and clams (as you can see from the handy blackboard Stephen made last weekend). We’ve done various similar things in the past so just did this from memory: sauteed some onions, celery and garlic for about 20 minutes before […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti Bolognaise
Wow, it’s been almost a week since we last posted. Combination of lots of things happening this week and eating boring things. Last night, I cooked spaghetti bolognaise as it was cold and we both felt like something hearty. Served with some interestingly shaped spaghetti I found in the deli. Nothing new or exciting about […]
Read More..>>Mackerel Salad
To save space for the mince pies and mulled wine, we had salad for lunch 🙂
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