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Roast Loin of Pork
Roast pork is my favourite but we don’t eat it that often (1 April 2007 according to the archives) so I was really looking forward to lunch today and I wasn’t disappointed. The meat was tender and tasty and produced fantastic, crackly crackling – we achieved this by leaving the meat uncovered in the fridge […]
Read More..>>Asparagus Pesto
I had no idea if this was going to work, partly because I’ve never seen asparagus pesto before and partly because my previous experience of trying to make pesto in our Tragimix (or Mini Magimix to give it it’s real name) was very trying. We had about eight stems of very tired looking asparagus lurking […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti with Anchovies, Garlic, Chilli, Lemon and Basil
I had a spaghetti craving last night and while thinking about what to cook for dinner this evening, we came up with this. While the spaghetti was boiling, Stephen fried some garlic and chilli. After a few minutes, he added the anchovies and cooked them down. When the spaghetti was cooked, we threw the garlic, […]
Read More..>>Barbecued Lamb Leg
Because of the the brilliant weather we’ve had lately, we just had to barbecue. Recently a colleague was telling me about a leg of lamb that he had cooked on the barbecue and how good it was, so when Kerri suggested the same thing, it just had to be done. We had a half leg […]
Read More..>>Thai Mondays Part 5: Stir Fried Pork with Beans and Green Peppercorns
Last week Kerri had lunch at a Thai restaurant and had a dish that she really enjoyed, which was beef with chilli, lemongrass, basil and a few other things. We had a look for recipe that was similar and, by happy coincidence, I had already bookmarked a recipe that contained most of those ingredients and […]
Read More..>>Chicken with Olives and Poorman’s Potatoes
We weren’t intending to eat at home on Saturday night but a bought of illness meant a change of plan. We needed to find a recipe that used ingredients we already had, Stephen suggested using one of our new Spanish books as the recipes are straightforward and don’t require lots of complicated ingredients. The chicken […]
Read More..>>Fish Pie
Being Good Friday today, Kerri wanted to cook fish pie. We found a tasty sounding recipe in a newly acquired cook book called Fish, subtitled “Recipes From a Busy Island”. It’s a National Trust book and is geared towards responsible and sustainable fish recipes. The recipe was called “Tweed Salmon, Smoked Haddock and Langoustine Pie […]
Read More..>>Geng Gari Gai
I ate this recently in Busaba Eathai and it was lovely so we thought we’d try making it ourselves. Stephen made the paste on Wednesday night and we cooked it together last night. This is the recipe from David Thompson’s “Thai Food”: 200g chicken thighs 4 medium potaotes (we used some new potatoes that were […]
Read More..>>Vongole
This is one of my favourite pasta dishes but oddly, we’ve never cooked it. I’ve been thinking a lot about quick dishes lately as we both often get home late and this seemed ideal; and ideal it was – quick and tasty which is exactly what we were trying to achieve. Fry some garlic and […]
Read More..>>Slow-Roasted Shoulder of Lamb
Yesterday, we had decided that today we should have some roast lamb. We were in the market for half a leg of lamb when we arrived at our local butcher yesterday, but we ended up taking half a shoulder instead because there was one on display and we couldn’t remember having cooked shoulder before. So […]
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