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Le Creuseted Chicken
On Sunday, we use our new casserole dish to roast a chicken. We began by browning the chicken on all sides and removing if from the pot. Next, we sweated off some carrot, celery, onion and garlic. We then added the chicken back to the pot with some sage, thyme and bay. We added about […]
Read More..>>Linguine with Prawns and Asparagus
A lovely friend of mine bought me the lovely Falling Cloudberries by Tessa Kiros recipe book for my birthday. I read the whole book cover to cover on the train home and I’ve read it a couple of times since, and marvelled at the beautiful photographs, but never cooked from it. Tonight, in order to […]
Read More..>>Presents!
Can you even begin to imagine how excited I am? This beautiful object you see before you is ours and will be happily living in our kitchen in less than four hours! Please send me your casserole recipes! G
Read More..>>Thai Red Curry – again
We last had this on Thursday and it was brilliant. Stephen had very cleverly made up double the amount of paste we needed so tonight, all we had to do was add a little extra chilli (it was brilliant last time but not that spicy) and voila, a brilliant, spicy Thai red curry. We remembered […]
Read More..>>Chicken
Today, we decided to cook something with chicken. After the elaborateness of yesterday’s meal, this seems a little plain and dull but it was actually very tasty and could easily be adapted into a number of different meals. Chicken thighs, red pepper, red onion, courgette, mushrooms, garlic, rosemary and some disappointing wine that had been […]
Read More..>>Rib of Beef
As it was St George’s Day today, we decided a celebration was in order. We started with some Nyetimber, an English sparkling wine made in West Sussex: We’ve had this before and this bottle has been sitting on the wine rack waiting to be drunk for a while. It’s a really good wine, easy to […]
Read More..>>Pork Chops
Pork chops stuffed with garlic, bay and rosemary. Served with garlic mushrooms, braised lemony leeks and roasted butternut. Very simple but very tasty.
Read More..>>Slutty Spaghetti with Asparagus
I couldn’t decide what to eat this evening but after the success of last night’s pasta, I thought I’d try something similar with asparagus. I love asparagus and am determined to eat as much of it as possible while it’s in season. I usually just have it with butter or parma ham so was keen […]
Read More..>>Slutty Spaghetti
Or Tart’s Spaghetti. Or Pasta Puttanesca. I’ve never made this before, I’ve no idea why as I love pasta and all the ingredients contained within this dish. Stephen was out tonight so I thought I’d give it a try and I am so glad I did. This is officially my New Favourite Thing. It’s so […]
Read More..>>Smoked Chicken
Today, we attempted to smoke a chicken on the barbeque. We used woodchips to create a smoky flavour and cooked the whole thing with the lid on. It took much longer to cook than we expected but the flavour was very smoky. So smoky that it reminded me of bacon. We also had boerewors and […]
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