Archive for the 'Meat' Category
Picnic
Last night we met some friends at Kew Gardens for a picnic. Since we had all been too busy to cook, I went via Marks and Spencer on the way and picked up some food. The ham hock terrine was particularly good but no-one was impressed with the crab pate.
Read More..>>Beef Stir-Fry
We went through a phase of eating stir-fry at least once a week, lately we’ve not been as concerned as we should have been with healthy eating which would explain why there’s been more variety in our cooking and therefore less stir-fries. We decided tonight to re-visit the stir-fry, partly from a health conscious point […]
Read More..>>Roman Chicken
Kerri had a day’s holiday today, and prepared this for when I got home, which was really nice 🙂 She’d fancied something with chicken and looked back through Dinner Diary to see what she could find. This post looked tasty, so she bought the ingredients and got to work. The result was very good indeed; […]
Read More..>>Birthday Barbecue
It was my Mum’s birthday on Friday (Happy Birthday Mum!) so yesterday we had a barbecue to celebrate. As well as the usual sausages and hamburgers, Stephen expertly cooked some garlic and rosemary lamb chops and some chicken which we’d marinated in a sticky barbecue sauce: We served this with tabbouleh and flatbreads and a […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti Bolognaise
Not a particularly interesting dish, nor a particularly interesting photograph but I’d been craving this for a few days so today I spent the afternoon making the sauce. We saw this a lot on menus while we were away, particularly children’s menus, so I guess that’s where the craving came from. Initially it didn’t turn […]
Read More..>>Lamb Chops and Sauteed Potatoes
A quick and easy meal this evening using up some lamb chops from the (vastly over-filled) freezer. The lamb chops were really good but the potatoes slightly disappointing, we used the leftovers from Friday’s roast chicken which made great roast potatoes but were sadly too floury for sauteed potatoes. More vegetables as we’re still trying […]
Read More..>>Chicken Salad
Having been on holiday in Spain last week, we mostly ate meat. Then yesterday we drove up to Suffolk where I was playing cricket and I ended up eating sausages for three meals in a row – sausage and mash for lunch, barbecued sausages in the evening and then another sausage as part of an […]
Read More..>>Thyme (and Roast Chicken)
As is tradition, on our first evening back from holiday we cooked roast chicken. On arriving home we noticed that our thyme plant had almost doubled in size. It seemed sensible therefore to stuff the chicken with thyme. It was delicious. We ate a lot of great food in Spain (more of which to come […]
Read More..>>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..>>Epoisses and Salami
Last night, we’d planned to go food shopping and pick up something for dinner while we were there. There seemed to be an awful lot of traffic though so we decided to postpone our trip, we couldn’t however postpone our hunger so opted to pick up some snacks from the deli instead. We chose Epoisses, […]
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