Author Archive
Baked Potatoes with Cheese and Bacon
Last week, we cooked baked potatoes with smoked trout which were brilliant. Tonight, we fancied something easy so decided to do the same but with cheese and bacon (or, CHEESE and BACON as Stephen put it). They were tasty but needed more cheese and more bacon.
Read More..>>Stir Fried Beef
After yeserday’s not-very-successful braised beef, we were left with a surfeit of meat which we stir fried this evening. This was much more successful than yesterday’s offering and here, mostly for my mum’s sake, is the recipe. Hi mum 🙂 Ingredients Leftover beef, sliced into strips Onion – half, sliced into moons Garlic – two […]
Read More..>>Blackberry Fool
We picked up some really nice looking blackberries yesterday but when we came to eat them they were really sharp. We decided to make them into blackberry fool but substituted the mascarpone for some leftover cream cheese. The result was very cheesecake-like, which I liked but Stephen wasn’t that keen on.
Read More..>>Summer Braised Beef
I found this recipe in a magazine a little while ago, it was described as being a good alternative to the traditional Sunday Roast. The weather wasn’t all that summery today but we thought we’d give it a go anyway. The result: disappointing. The flavours (pale ale, red onion, garlic, celery, bay, peppercorns) were good […]
Read More..>>Thai Green Curry and Curry Puffs
Last night we had Thai green curry again. I enjoy making the curry paste in the mortar and pestle; I’m sure I’ll get bored of it one day but I haven’t got there yet. And we had a friend round who was really sweet and brought Malaysian curry puffs which we had as a starter. […]
Read More..>>Fish Pie
This morning, we were set on using up the chorizo in the fridge that we bought back from Barcelona but by the time we got to the supermarket we had decided to make fish pie; funny how that happens. We haven’t made this for a long time, in fact I don’t think it’s featured anywhere […]
Read More..>>Fried Halloumi…
…with Delia’s lime and coriander vinaigrette. But without the coriander because we didn’t have any. I was secretly pleased because I don’t really like it anyway, I think it tastes like washing-up liquid. We used mint instead and it worked well. Stephen said it was a bit like a savoury mojito. We served the fried […]
Read More..>>Barbecue
It was a warm and sunny day today so we decided to barbecue some fish. Stephen went off to the fishmonger and came back with a bumper bag of prawns, langoustines, sea bass and bream. We started off with the prawns (marinated in onion, garlic, lemon juice and olive oil) and langoustines and some garlic […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
It’s become something of a tradition that when we return from holidays we eat roast chicken…well, this is the second time it’s happened so it’s on the way to being a tradition. We roasted the chicken with onion, garlic, sage and lemon and served it with sagey roast potatoes, stuffing and some green vegetables. It […]
Read More..>>Sweden
We’re back from our trip to Sweden where Stephen’s team won both their cricket matches. For the first part of the trip we stayed in a small town with only two restaurants, both of which served pizza and kebabs. We therefore ate pizza: One of the opposition ate kebab pizza (perhaps that’s why they lost): […]
Read More..>>