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Elizabeth David
I’ve long been envious of people who just happen to find old and interesting cookery books in charity shops. I often find myself browsing the shelves only to be confronted with the Sainsbury’s Microwave Cook Book from 1982 or the Marks and Spencer All Time Favourite Slow Cooker Recipes. Today however, I struck lucky and […]
Read More..>>Scallops and Paella
Tonight’s starter was scallops with chorizo. We fried the chorizo off first, then the scallop roe and finally the scallops themselves. Served as above. Yum 🙂 To continue the fishy theme, we then made a seafood paella with prawns, mussels and clams: It was very tasty, and there was rice, you just can’t see it […]
Read More..>>Cheese Muffins
In my “things to cook soon” file, I’ve had Nigella’s Welsh Rarebit Muffin recipe for ages but never gotten around to making it. Speaking to someone I know this week, she mentioned that she’d had mixed results with the recipe and suggested I try this instead, Cheese and Pancetta Muffins from UKTV Food. We left […]
Read More..>>Cheese Crumpets
Stephen was out tonight and I had planned to use up the smoked mackerel fillets we bought last time he was out (I couldn’t be bothered to eat them that time) but I just couldn’t be bothered – again. So, I foraged around and found some crumpets that were dangerously close to their sell-by date […]
Read More..>>Brrr
It’s been lovely and bright and quite warm lately but today was cold, it even snowed briefly. After lots of tidying up in the garden we came inside and cooked a warming casserole. The afternoon was spent reading the papers and after an early shower I thought some hot chocolate would be just the thing […]
Read More..>>Guinness Marmite
Apparently, these limited edition jars are flying off the shelves and going for fortunes on eBay…we were lucky enough to find one today in Waitrose so snapped it up. I don’t buy the marketer’s “love it or hate it” rubbish, I think it’s ok…I like it with cheese on toast and it adds depth to […]
Read More..>>Pheasant au Vin
Yesterday, we bought a pheasant at our local butcher with the intention of cooking it today. After considering a few pheasant-related recipes, we decided to make something up and do a “pheasant au vin”. I’m glad that we did because it was really, really good. Joined the pheasant, then marinated it in some red wine […]
Read More..>>Raspberries
On Valentines Day, I had planned to make frozen berries with hot chocolate sauce but we were both too full to eat it. The raspberries have been in the freezer ever since so tonight, we had them with Green and Black’s vanilla ice-cream. The rasperries weren’t quite as frozen as they look in this picture […]
Read More..>>Happy St Patrick’s Day!
Although neither of us are Irish, we never let a food holiday pass us by. Today, in true Irish spirit, we made beef in Guinness with colcannon. The casserole was good, if a little sweet but the colcannon was brilliant. G
Read More..>>Fred’s Fried Breakfast
This morning, we were hungry and there the cupboards were bare so Stephen made an emergency dash to the deli and came back with a bagful of goodies. He had a fried egg, some black pudding, some sweet-cured bacon, two pork sausages, some fried vine tomatoes and some French bread. It was all very tasty […]
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