Archive for the 'British' Category
Pork Belly
Stephen had pork belly for lunch last week and it was really tasty so we decided to try cooking our own. We bought the pork belly from the Ginger Pig yesterday and, before we went out to watch the fireworks, we poured boiling water and cider vinegar onto the skin, then refrigerated it over night. […]
Read More..>>Fried Egg with Bubble and Squeak
For breakfast this morning, Stephen had a fried egg with the leftover mashed potatoes and curly kale from last night. He fried the mashed potatoes, so they were a sort of bubble and squeak.
Read More..>>Banger and Mash-and-Carrots-and-Kale
Bonfire night. Have to have bangers and mash according to Kerri. I heartily endorse this idea. So before a delay-ridden and noisy teenager-ridden bus trip to Alexandra Palace to watch fireworks, we tucked into this meal. The sausages were sage and onion (and pork, obviously) from the Kerri Pig. They were fairly coarse in texture, […]
Read More..>>Coddled Egg with Mushrooms, Spinach and Cheese
For my recent birthday, one of the many, many presents that I received from Kerri was an egg coddler. I had never used one before and used it for the first time on my birthday. Now, a week later, I tried it again and added mushrooms, spinach and cheese to my egg. It was really […]
Read More..>>This Week’s Vegetable Box
PARSNIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!! – very exciting, I love parsnips and they’ll go well with the pork belly we’re planning this weekend Curly kale – mmmmm, will also go well with the pork Spinach – second hated (after cabbage), Stephen likes it though so hopefully he’ll be looking like Popeye at the end of the week 🙂 Brocolli […]
Read More..>>Fishcakes
Kerri suggested fishcakes tonight and it was a good idea. She had made most of it when I got home and all that was left for me to do was to get my hands all gooey shaping them into cakes and putting them into the breadcrumbs. They contained salmon, potato and some spinach that we […]
Read More..>>Blurry Soup
Kitchen was steamy when Stephen took the picture 🙂 This was supposed to be leek and potato but tasted more like potato with a hint of leek. I wasn’t that keen on the texture of it either. It used up last week’s vegetable box leeks though so not all bad, and it warmed me up.
Read More..>>Chicken and Cabbage
Did I mention that we got a cabbage in our vegetable box again this week? For the fourth week in a row. I used to like cabbage. Maybe I’ll like it again one day but, at the moment, it’s up there with spinach as of my least favourite vegetables (I used to like spinach too […]
Read More..>>British Sausage Week
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6101430.stm But also National Vegan Week, what a strange coincidence. I know which one Stephen and I will be supporting though. Bang* goes the diet 🙂 *bang, like banger, geddit?
Read More..>>British Tapas
Being my birthday, we decided to have a party. Kerri and I had been discussing the topic of “British Tapas” for quite a while and talking about what sorts of dishes (if any) would both fit this category and be delicious. So we decided to do some experimentation and invited some people round to be […]
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