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Roast Pork with Caramelised Apple and Chorizo Stuffing
Firstly, this was really good. I felt I should say that just in case the rest of the entry doesn’t convey it and I forget to add it. That said, what we had was roast pork with a caramelised apple and chorizo stuffing, cooked from this recipe, and also potato and parsnip rosti cooked from […]
Read More..>>Pizza Puttanesca and Pizza with Mushrooms and Truffle Oil
Given our great love of pasta puttanesca with all of its brilliant anchovy-chilli-capery-oliveyness, we figured that the various components would make a good pizza topping. We made the dough from Jamie Oliver’s pizza dough recipe, which we’ve had some issues with in the past, but it turned out rather well this time, done in a […]
Read More..>>Lamb Shanks with Sauteed Potatoes
After yesterday’s kitchen nightmare, we were determined to do better today. And we did, which is good but isn’t actually saying very much. We did start off with a slight worry though when we re-read the recipe and found that it said to cook for 12 hours. Twelve hours is a long time. And also […]
Read More..>>Pappardelle with Rabbit
Yesterday we cooked rabbit casserole, and part of Kerri’s great rabbit-related master plan was to make left over casserole into pasta sauce today. We reduced the leftover casserole down until the liquid was about a third of the original amount. We shredded the meat, then returned it to the reduced liquid and added about 150ml […]
Read More..>>Coq au Vin
This is something I thought we ate fairly often but looking back through the archives, it seems we haven’t eaten it at all since we started blogging. We’re definitely in Autumn now so this seemed like the perfect Sunday afternoon dish. Previously, I think we’ve always used the Delia version but today we made it […]
Read More..>>Pizza
It’s been another busy few days with not a lot of cooking going on. Stephen and I went to visit my mum yesterday and spent the afternoon making pizza with my niece. We used a variety of toppings including artichokes, olives, salami, parma ham, peppers, mushrooms and onions. They turned out well but the best […]
Read More..>>Pasta Puttanesca
Like yesterday’s green curry, this is something we eat a lot so finding something interesting to say about it and making it look attractive on the plate is a challenge. Every time I eat it though I can’t help but wonder why it took us so long to discover it, how can you go wrong […]
Read More..>>Thai Monday – Green Curry with Chicken
We last had this only two weeks ago but since we’d made double the paste we needed to use it up today so it didn’t go to waste. As it was, we think the paste had lost something from sitting in the fridge as it wasn’t quite as zingy as normal. It was still very […]
Read More..>>Crunchy Pork Chops
We first ate these at a friend’s house and really enjoyed them so decided to cook them ourselves. It’s a fairly straightforward recipe by Nigella who suggests eating them with garlic spinach and a tomato salad. We had them with mustard mashed potatoes and runner beans. The mustard in the mashed potatoes complimented the chops […]
Read More..>>Thai Green Curry
We haven’t had this for ages so while shopping on Saturday, we stopped off at our local Thai supermarket and picked up the ingredients we needed to make the paste. Stephen made up the paste yesterday and I cooked the actual curry when I got home tonight. It was good but not as good as […]
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