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Friends for Dinner
Last night, we had some friends over for dinner. We started with asparagus and the same dressing we made last week: Next, we had rosemary and garlic lamb, crushed new potatoes, fresh peas, runner beans and winter greens: And finally, elderflower jelly with summer fruits and vanilla ice-cream: The jellies, based on a Mark Hix […]
Read More..>>Scallop Stir-Fry
This is a recipe I found on an old Sainsbury’s Magazine calendar, it’s been in my recipe file for ages but we only got round to making it today. The scallops were fried off then removed from the pan, the shallots, garlic and ginger were then fried before the vegetables (tenderstem brocolli, baby corn and […]
Read More..>>Hemp Seeds
Welcome to the first in a new series entitled The Dinner Diary Top Tip….add some toasted hemp seeds to your salads for extra crunch and flavour.
Read More..>>Lamb Kofta
Yesterday afternoon, while we were cooking lamb, we also made up some lamb kofta to have this evening. I like to have something quick and easy for a Monday evening, sort of a homemade ready-meal. I used the same recipe that I always do but the results weren’t so great. We used some new-season lamb […]
Read More..>>Boiled Egg
Not just any old bolied egg but a goose egg. Stephen had it for breakfast this morning, with soldiers. He said it was tasty, like a very good chicken egg. It needs to be boiled for 11 minutes meaning the white went quite hard but the yolk was nice and soft.
Read More..>>Bocadillos
While in Barcelona we ate some brilliant baguettes that were rubbed with tomato and garlic, filled with jamon and drizzled with olive oil. We decided to recreate them for lunch today with some Spanish ham we bought from our local deli. They were really good but the weather could have made more of an effort.
Read More..>>Chocolate Brownies
I was quite flattered today to be asked to bake something for a colleague who is leaving on Friday. Flattered but frightened because I’m not much of a baker. Something about the preciseness of the measuring and the weighing and the mixing and the folding. I like to taste as I go along and add […]
Read More..>>Stir Fried Fish
Continuing our quest to ear healthily, we chose stir fry for dinner this evening. Stephen took control of the wok, while I chopped and made marinades. We used a random recipe we found online which involved the usual soy and oyster sauces, ginger, garlic, onion etc. The haddock marinated for a short while, then was […]
Read More..>>Paprika Pork Chops with Roasted Vegetables
Tonight, we roasted a mountain of vegetables (peppers, onions, sweet potato, aubergine, courgette, carrot, mushroom) with garlic and rosemary and served them with paprika pork chops. The flavours complimented each other well but overall there was a lack of crunch. We had added some sesame seeds to the vegetables but not a mountain-sized amount, so […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti Bolognaise
Stephen and I read the same novel while on holiday (Mark Haddon’s “A Spot of Bother”, very funny) and there were a couple of mentions of spaghetti bolognaise which led us both to crave it. This used to be something I ate on an almost weekly basis, particularly when I was a student, but neither […]
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