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Chicken Salad
Continuing the healthy theme and to use up some of yesterday’s roast chicken, I made a chicken salad for lunch which I livened up with a honey and mustard dressing. Honey, wholegrain mustard, salt, lemon juice and oil, all shaken up and drizzled on the mixed salad. Really tasty. Afterwards, I had a Bottlegreen Push […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
We’ve eaten lots of great food over the last few days but a lot of it was very rich, and we were slightly greedy too. We decided on a simple roast chicken for dinner this evening, with crushed Jersey Royals rather than roast potatoes. Stephen stuffed the chicken with a selection of herbs from the […]
Read More..>>Salad
After the excesses of the last few days, we opted for a healthy lunch of salad today. Stephen made the salad and then had his with tuna. I had smoked trout. Simple but tasty.
Read More..>>Chilli
On Wednesday night, Stephen was out so I decided to make myself a quick dinner of chilli prawns and spaghetti. We’ve made it a few times before and it’s always been a success. Tonight, I added too much chilli. So much that I couldn’t eat it. I liked the picture though so thought I would […]
Read More..>>Chorizo, Broad Bean and Sage Risotto
In another attempt to use up our ever-expanding sage bush, tonight we made risotto. This is normally Stephen’s domain but I’ve long felt it was something I should conquer. It turned out ok, despite the fact that the shallots and celery caught, as did the chorizo. Normally, we’d use rosemary for this but the sage […]
Read More..>>Very Sagey Roast Chicken
Our herb garden is growing very successfully and one of the best plants is the sage. We’ve neglected it somewhat though so today decided to use some with our chicken. We filled the cavity with some of the bigger leaves, pushed some under the skin and chopped some up to make stuffing. The result: perfectly […]
Read More..>>Lemongrass Beef and Thai Curry
Last night I came home to the smell of cooking, Stephen was busy mortaring and pestling lots of different ingredients for our Thai feast. We started with lemongrass beef, which we’ve had before. We grilled the beef rather than frying and, along with the extra marinating, it really seemed to help the flavour. This was […]
Read More..>>Poached Salmon
After last night’s culinary adventures, we felt we should make the effort to be healthy this evening. We settled on poached salmon (salmon cooked in boiling water with wine, onion and mixed herbs) and green vegetables. I think it needs a little work as not a lot of the flavours made their way into the […]
Read More..>>St John
Last night, Stephen and I went to St John for dinner. It’s my second visit there and, once again, the food was excellent. We arrived slightly early and had a drink in the bar, their house Champagne (Jean Milan brut) which is brilliant and then a glass of Muscat Sec which smelt a lot like […]
Read More..>>Lamb Chops
A quick dinner this evening of lamb chops, marinated in garlic and rosemary, fried and served with some leftover tabbouleh and pitta bread. Tasty but two chops each would have been better.
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