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Fish Pie
We’ve cooked fish pie a few times in the past but always with varying success. Today’s method was slightly different and more successful. Rather than poaching the fish in milk as we usually do we added it to the dish raw with some white sauce (which had been steeped with celery, carrot, shallots and capers), […]
Read More..>>Fishcakes with Lemony Leeks
We’ve had these in the freezer for a while and thought they would be nice and easy for a Friday night. And they were except I left them in the oven a little too long. We served them with lemony leeks which were a good contrast: leeks braised in some chicken stock and lemon juice, […]
Read More..>>Larry
I never knew Larry the Lamb when he was alive, but even if I had done, I don’t think I would have minded eating him anyway because he was very tasty indeed. Regular readers may remember our good friend Geraldine. Larry was next in line for being cooked on the excellent spit created by some […]
Read More..>>Rice Pudding
I made a rice pudding yesterday and almost burnt my mouth in my hurry to taste it as soon as it came out of the oven. Although it was hot, it wasn’t long before I realised I’d forgotten to add the sugar. I managed to rescue it today though by re-heating some with some extra […]
Read More..>>Toad in the Hole
Today was the last day of British Sausage Week, so we obviously had to have sausages as we haven’t had any yet this week. We bought some herby pork sausages from our local butcher and made toad in the hole. From what I can remember, it’s the first time we’ve made it. It turned out […]
Read More..>>Smoked Salmon Pate
After our recent success with mackerel pate, we decided to try smoked salmon pate for lunch today. We used half poached salmon and half smoked salmon, which we mixed with a spoon of crème fraîche and some lemon juice and seasoned with salt and cayenne pepper. I wasn’t convinced at first, but with the addition […]
Read More..>>Beef Casserole – take two
I can be pretty fickle when it comes to food – quite often I find something I love and I want to eat it all the time, other times I might think something is brilliant but eat it once and then not want to eat it again. Tonight was one of those nights. There was […]
Read More..>>Beef Casserole
Strangely, on Saturday Kitchen yesterday morning, they cooked some Thai food (a Phad Thai with approximately a thousand scallops… mmmmm!) and also beef casserole. This fitted in rather well with our plans for the weekend, as we had been planning Thai food last night and beef casserole today. Spooky really. Anyway, we took it as […]
Read More..>>Macaroni Cheese
I’ve never had macaroni cheese before so thought it would be interesting to give it a go given that I love pasta and I love cheese. We used a Nigel Slater recipe from Kitchen Diaries (I love this book but haven’t cooked from it before) that included Dijon and wholegrain mustard and had a breadcrumb […]
Read More..>>Salmon Fishcakes with Horseradish
Last time we made salmon fishcakes, they were a great success and we were keen to repeat that success. We had bought some horseradish on the weekend and were keen to use that too, so we grated some into the fishcakes and also made some creamed horseradish sauce. I’m sad to report that the fishcakes […]
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