Archive for the 'Meat' Category
Chicken Tikka Wraps
We have cooked a few dishes from Anjum Anand’s Indian Food Made Easy lately, and tried another one this evening. I’ve taken to calling it Indian Food Made Irritating because of the pseudo-Nigellaness of her presentation style on her television programme. However, we have had a fair amount of success with the recipes in the […]
Read More..>>Lasagne
My love of lasagne is well documented, probably the only reason we don’t eat it more regularly is that it takes such a long time to put together. I’ve been craving it for a little while though and thought it would be a nice meal for Stephen to come home to after his first day […]
Read More..>>Roast Beef
We’d talked about having roast beef on New Year’s Day but settled on chicken instead, neither of us had been able to get the idea of beef out of our heads though so decided to have it today. Stephen went sale shopping today so while he was out I started the preparation. I like to […]
Read More..>>Thai Red Curry with Chicken and Vegetables
The peanut sauce we made on Wednesday required one teaspoon or red curry paste which seemed like a lot of mortaring and pestling for such a small amount. Luckily Stephen remembered that we’d bought some paste at Oriental City before it closed down so we used that instead. There was obviously lots leftover so we […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
As I’ve mentioned numerous times before, this is one of our favourite dishes and seemed a fitting start to the new year. The jars of goose fat sitting in the fridge (leftover from our pre-Christmas dinner) needed some attention and I’ve been craving roast potatoes since Boxing Day. Last New Year’s Day, we bravely attempted […]
Read More..>>New Year’s Eve 2008
We decided to spend the evening at home with some friends last night and agreed in advance on some quick and easy food that we could all contribute to. By the time they had arrived, our best laid plans had gone completely awry and we ended up with a banquet rather than a buffet. Not […]
Read More..>>Christmas Dinner!
For Christmas dinner, we had a family dinner with Kerri’s mum and her brother and his family, who kindly allowed us to take over their kitchen to cook it. We had turkey of course, as is obvious from the picture below. When we collected the turkey from the butcher (a free range bronze turkey from […]
Read More..>>Goose Pie
Having half a goose left after our pre-Christmas dinner yesterday, we embarked on a goose pie project. Kerri had seen Jamie cooking a turkey and leek pie, which served as partial inspiration. We only had one leek though, so we added an onion. And we didn’t have creme fraiche, so we used chicken stock. And […]
Read More..>>Pre-Christmas Dinner – Roast Goose
It’s become something of a tradition (if twice counts as a tradition – a tradition in the making maybe) for me and Kerri to have a pre-Christmas dinner with my sister and her husband shortly before we disappear off elsewhere for Christmas itself. Last year we had roast salmon with salsa verde; this year we […]
Read More..>>Pot Roasted Pheasant
This is another recipe from Nigel Slater’s Kitchen Diaries which unfortunately didn’t work out as well as the previous quail dish. The pheasant is browned in oil and removed from the dish, then some vegetables (celery, garlic, carrots and sage) are added along with the vermouth. The pheasant is returned to the pan and the […]
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