Archive for the 'Favourite' Category
Beef Rendang
This dish has been following us around lately, we saw Rick Stein cook it last week and then Dan from Food Urchin also posted his version. We saw it as a sign and resolved to make it as soon as we could. As with most South East Asian dishes, there are various different recipes available, […]
Read More..>>The Quest for Perfect Pizza
It seems very self-obsessed to call something that you’ve cooked yourself “perfect” but, having spent a fair amount of time getting our recipe just how we wanted it, I think we’ve finally mastered our own version of perfect pizza. We’ve experimented with different types of dough and have finally settled on Jamie Oliver’s recipe – […]
Read More..>>Weekend Barbecue Number One
We spent Saturday enjoying the sunshine at a friend’s annual barbecue. Amongst other things (that sadly didn’t photograph well), we ate squid that had been marinated in chilli and a Japanese spice I can’t remember the name of and mackerel that had spent the morning sucking up some red curry paste. We took along a […]
Read More..>>Weekend Round-Up
We were away in Kent this weekend so didn’t do much in the way of cooking but here’s what we managed to eat while we were away. We started the weekend at a beer festival, our friends bought along their portable barbecue and we ate barbecued sausages in crusty bread while sampling 40 local ales. […]
Read More..>>Lentil Lasagne
Although we cook this style of lentils a lot, we usually eat it with crusty bread or spaghetti rather than making it into lasagne. The original recipe was actually for lasagne though so I’m not quite sure why it’s taken us so long to get round to it. Still, I’m glad we got there eventually […]
Read More..>>Hamburgers
After finally getting our hamburger recipe just the way we wanted, we decide to test them again to make sure we were correct in our measurements and were able to reproduce them. We also quite fancied having burgers for dinner. I think I was a little too heavy-handed with the mustard this time, and not […]
Read More..>>Pork Pie
There’s nothing more perfect for a picnic than a pork pie. This one was sent to us for review from Abel and Cole which we took along to eat while Stephen played cricket yesterday. Well, I mostly ate it while Stephen was busy but, as it was so large, there was plenty left over when […]
Read More..>>Burgers on the Barbecue
This was our third attempt at perfecting our hamburger recipe and by jove, I think we have it. What was important to us was a burger that retained its meaty flavour but had just the right amount of other flavours to complement it. Once the basics are there then we can play around with the […]
Read More..>>Pancetta, Sage and Broad Bean Risotto
As I think we’ve mentioned before, our sage plant is going crazy so we’ve been trying to think of ways to use it up. That, coupled with a risotto craving led us to this evening’s meal. We had some really good stock in the freezer that was made with two chicken carcasses which leant a […]
Read More..>>Two Bean Chilli
Yes, three or even four bean chilli would have sounded better but I forgot that we had other beans hidden away when it came to soaking time last night. We ended up with black beans and haricot beans which worked well anyway. The basic recipe is based on our recently tweaked chilli con carne but […]
Read More..>>