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Pre-Christmas Dinner – Roast Goose
It’s become something of a tradition (if twice counts as a tradition – a tradition in the making maybe) for me and Kerri to have a pre-Christmas dinner with my sister and her husband shortly before we disappear off elsewhere for Christmas itself. Last year we had roast salmon with salsa verde; this year we […]
Read More..>>Pot Roasted Pheasant
This is another recipe from Nigel Slater’s Kitchen Diaries which unfortunately didn’t work out as well as the previous quail dish. The pheasant is browned in oil and removed from the dish, then some vegetables (celery, garlic, carrots and sage) are added along with the vermouth. The pheasant is returned to the pan and the […]
Read More..>>Mince Pies
Yesterday we spent the day decorating the house and the tree. It seemed fitting to have some mince pies while we did so and luckily we had some mincemeat in the fridge that we’d made a week or so ago, to our usual recipe. We didn’t quite get the sizes right, our cutters were either […]
Read More..>>Sausage Casserole
Inevitably, the colder weather has led to lots of talk about warming winter dishes. We’ve been trying to keep it as healthy as possible recently but today I gave in and braved the weather in search of sausages. I found some lovely looking Cumberland sausages at the butcher and decided to give sausage casserole another […]
Read More..>>Slow Roast Lamb Shanks with Butterbeans
While investigating how to cook butterbeans earlier this week, Stephen came across this recipe for lamb shanks. Although we didn’t use it at the time, we bookmarked it and used it today. The recipe calls for a leg of lamb but we used lamb shanks instead, halved the quantities of everything else and reduced the […]
Read More..>>Sandra’s Christmas Puddings
I’ve never made a Christmas pudding before, as a child I didn’t really like it and have only come to appreciate it in the last few years. I was keen to make my own this year so started looking around for recipes when my mum mentioned that her very good friend Sandra made very good […]
Read More..>>Crab Toasts and Halibut with Salsa Verde and Sauteed Potatoes
A few days ago we decided to cook something special this evening. Shortly afterwards, we decided that the starter should be crab toasts. After quite a lot more thinking, we still hadn’t decided what our main course should be, so we figured that when we went to buy the crab from the fishmonger, we would […]
Read More..>>Parkin
Like many other bloggers, we decided to make parkin in honour of Guy Fawke’s Night. Neither of us had eaten it before so weren’t sure what to expect, the combination of ginger and cinammon sounded irresistable though so off we went to purchase the huge amounts of sugar, butter, treacle and syrup we needed. I […]
Read More..>>Anchovy, Chilli and Spinach Quiche
This was Kerri’s idea, adapted from another recipe. She initially wanted to use watercress, but couldn’t find any when she went shopping today, so we went with spinach. It turned out rather well, with lots of flavour. Although if you don’t like anchovies then it’s not a dish for you as they were quite prominent. […]
Read More..>>Chicken Casserole
I was home from work today so decided to use the time wisely and do some batch cooking. We bought a whole chicken yesterday which Stephen jointed last night, saving the carcass for stock. I made an early start on the stock so that I could use it in today’s casserole and when it was […]
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