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Sweden
We’re back from our trip to Sweden where Stephen’s team won both their cricket matches. For the first part of the trip we stayed in a small town with only two restaurants, both of which served pizza and kebabs. We therefore ate pizza: One of the opposition ate kebab pizza (perhaps that’s why they lost): […]
Read More..>>Lemongrass Beef and Chicken with Cashew Nuts
Last night we had a quick-but-tasty dinner of lemongrass beef skewers and chicken with cashew nuts. We’ve made the skewers a couple of times before and they’re definitely a favourite. They were marinated overnight this time, which gave them a stronger flavour. Next time we make them we’ll make some Thai dipping sauce too. Followed […]
Read More..>>Chicken Salad
Continuing the healthy theme and to use up some of yesterday’s roast chicken, I made a chicken salad for lunch which I livened up with a honey and mustard dressing. Honey, wholegrain mustard, salt, lemon juice and oil, all shaken up and drizzled on the mixed salad. Really tasty. Afterwards, I had a Bottlegreen Push […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
We’ve eaten lots of great food over the last few days but a lot of it was very rich, and we were slightly greedy too. We decided on a simple roast chicken for dinner this evening, with crushed Jersey Royals rather than roast potatoes. Stephen stuffed the chicken with a selection of herbs from the […]
Read More..>>Very Sagey Roast Chicken
Our herb garden is growing very successfully and one of the best plants is the sage. We’ve neglected it somewhat though so today decided to use some with our chicken. We filled the cavity with some of the bigger leaves, pushed some under the skin and chopped some up to make stuffing. The result: perfectly […]
Read More..>>Lemongrass Beef and Thai Curry
Last night I came home to the smell of cooking, Stephen was busy mortaring and pestling lots of different ingredients for our Thai feast. We started with lemongrass beef, which we’ve had before. We grilled the beef rather than frying and, along with the extra marinating, it really seemed to help the flavour. This was […]
Read More..>>Catalan Fish Stew with Chicken instead of Fish
Last week, we cooked Romesco de peix and today we did the same with chicken instead of fish. The effect was quite different; partly due to the chicken vs fish difference but also due to the fact that this time we actually had enough almonds. Served with some new potatoes and spring greens.
Read More..>>Le Creuseted Chicken
On Sunday, we use our new casserole dish to roast a chicken. We began by browning the chicken on all sides and removing if from the pot. Next, we sweated off some carrot, celery, onion and garlic. We then added the chicken back to the pot with some sage, thyme and bay. We added about […]
Read More..>>Cinco de Mayo
Being Cinco de Mayo today, we decided to have something Mexican. So we started with Margaritas: Which we drank with some tortilla chips (Poco Loco brand which taste much more like real Mexican tortilla chips than supermarket brands do) with some slightly too wet (even though I’d drained it once) but still tasty tomato salsa […]
Read More..>>Thai Red Curry – again
We last had this on Thursday and it was brilliant. Stephen had very cleverly made up double the amount of paste we needed so tonight, all we had to do was add a little extra chilli (it was brilliant last time but not that spicy) and voila, a brilliant, spicy Thai red curry. We remembered […]
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