Archive for the 'Meat' Category
Roast Chicken with Boulangere Potatoes
One of the most enjoyable aspects of our week away was spending time in the kitchen, cooking with our friends. We’re all keen cooks and, although it’s incredibly immodest of me to say this about myself, all very able. This meant that over the course of the week, there were many people in the kitchen […]
Read More..>>Roast Pork with Apples and Chorizo
This was no mean feat. Perfectly moist, flavoursome roast pork with wonderful crunchy crackling, roasted apples and a side order of crispy chorizo, for 15 people in an unfamiliar kitchen with incredibly blunt knives. My compliments to the poor chef who managed to not even look a little bit frustrated as he tried to remove […]
Read More..>>Chilli with Roasted Peppers
Having complete an enormous, Supermarket Sweep style shopping trip at the local supermarket on Sunday, we found ourselves with rather a lot of minced beef that was destined for a pot of chilli. Feeling a little delicate yesterday, Stephen and I stayed behind while the majority of the group went walking in the rain. Not […]
Read More..>>Cumbrian Lamb
Continuing the Cumbrian theme, tonight’s dinner was local lamb cutlets, once again from Harrisons butcher. We briefly considered sauteed potatoes as an accompaniment but the practicalities of chopping enough onion and potato for 16 people soon became evident and we ended up with some very good roast potatoes instead. The chops were marinated in garlic […]
Read More..>>Cumberland Sausage
Stephen and I are on holiday in the Lake District with 14 friends. As you can imagine, catering for that number of people is potentially challenging but, on the first evening, the solution was obvious: Cumbrian sausage from the local butcher, Harrisons of Wigton. When I first heard of this plan, I idly wondered just […]
Read More..>>Potato and Chorizo Salad
We’re going away on Saturday so this week is all about using up the stuff that’s hanging around in the fridge and cupboards. This is quite similar to the chorizo and potato dish we cooked last week but lighter and more like a tapas dish really. It worked well and was very quick and easy, […]
Read More..>>Salt Marsh Lamb and Sauteed Potatoes
We were supposed to go on a picnic today but the weather looked so unreliable that we ended up cancelling. Faced with a second evening of non-planned meals, I spent a while looking at recipes online; nothing inspired me though so I paid a visit to the butcher to see if I could find anything […]
Read More..>>Chicken Fajitas with Sweetcorn and Black Bean Salsa
I thought we were going out this evening but I got my dates muddled up, luckily I realised in time and defrosted some chicken breasts without much thought on what to do with them. Chicken breasts are something we’ve got used to having in the freezer but we don’t eat them much now and couldn’t […]
Read More..>>Chorizo with Cabbage and Potatoes
Having had presentation issues with last night’s dinner, we thought that it would be good if we could rectify that tonight. However, when we went through what we had and what needed to be used up, we ended up with chorizo, cabbage, potatoes and half a tin of tomatoes and the result was tasty but […]
Read More..>>Chicken Curry
So, as you can imagine, a 2 kilo chicken generates rather a lot of leftovers. I’m not great with chicken leftovers, they scream PIE to me and unfortunately, that doesn’t fit with our current efforts to eat healthily. Admittedly, a chicken curry doesn’t automatically scream HEALTH but Stephen found a Good Food recipe that was […]
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