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Venison Casserole
We’d been talking about cooking venison for a while, so today we did. We cooked it in a casserole with bacon, onions, mushrooms and red wine and ate it with mashed potato, winter greens and red cabbage. The casserole turned out rather well – the meat was tender with a typically venisonny (is that a […]
Read More..>>Pizza
We’d planned to make pizza on Friday night, but went to the pub instead. So, we made it on Saturday night instead. We used our normal dough recipe but, this time it was a bit doughier. Not sure why. We topped it with the cheat’s Waitrose bruschetta topping, some really peppery salami, some artichokes and […]
Read More..>>Breakfast
Homemade muffins served with butter and cheese (for Stephen). 2 eggs 1/3 cup oil 1 1/2 cups brown sugar 2 cups bran 2 cups milk 2 1/2 cups flour Pinch salt 2 teaspoons vanilla 2 1/2 teaspoons bos 1 cup fruit Beat eggs, oil and sugar together. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk. Bake in […]
Read More..>>Pizza
Friday night….good TV, fine wine and homemade pizza. Like last time, we made this with the (alledged) Pizza Express recipe. I think we’ll have to find a new recipe though, this one doesn’t behave all that well. Neither of us are that experienced with dough though so it could just be our lack of understanding. […]
Read More..>>Stuffed Pasta
1 large onion, finely chopped 3 gloves garlic, crushed 1 stick celery, finely chopped 20g porcini mushrooms 500g minced beef 3tbs Marsala (or sherry) 2tbsps tomato puree S&P 1tbs parsley, finely chopped Generous grating nutmeg 1tbs worcester sauce 125ml milk Fry onion, garlic, celery and mushrooms on a medium heat until soft and translucent. Add […]
Read More..>>Cheese On Toast
Mmmmmmmmmmm 🙂
Read More..>>Sausage Casserole
One of my food-related new year’s resolutions was to perfect the sausage casserole. This was my first attempt and is a long way off what I was hoping for. This method requires you to fry the sausages and shallots, then add garlic and bacon and fry a little more, then add stock, wine, mustard and […]
Read More..>>Pork in Cider Vinegar Sauce
This was from Delia’s Winter, Stephen has been super-keen to make it all week so, on Wednesday night we cooked it ready for last night’s dinner. The flavours were good, but the meat was quite dry. The sauce is thickened with creme fraiche which I don’t think worked very well. It needed to be thicker.
Read More..>>Look!!!!!!!!!!
Stephen bought it for me for my birthday. I love it 😀
Read More..>>Haven’t I Been Busy
Our spice cupboard is at floor height so when we want to use anything, we have to pick up every jar and look at the front of it. No more! I have labelled the tops of each jar so now we can see at a glance which is which 🙂 G
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