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Barbecue
The weather report claimed that we were going to have sun yesterday and it didn’t work out that way, but we had planned to barbecue so we went ahead. We started with prawns which we’ve done a few times before and we marinated them in oil, lemon, garlic and chilli as we usually do. Then […]
Read More..>>Beef and Water Chestnut Stir Fry
Kerri wanted to cook water chestnuts tonight and we didn’t have any and Waitrose didn’t have any when she went shopping there. So I volunteered to get some on the way home. I visited about 10 shops on the way home and only found them in the last one. I hadn’t thought they’d be that […]
Read More..>>Chicken Stir Fry
As is typical of most Mondays, we went for something light for dinner in a vague attempt to atone for the extremeties of the weekend. This was pretty much our usual chicken stir fry but with the addition of basil at the end which lifted the whole dish and made it much more fragrant. We […]
Read More..>>Not suitable for Vegetarians
Yesterday afternoon we went to a friend’s barbecue but it wasn’t just your average barbecue, this one has been organised for months and required a substantial amount of planning. An ordinary grill wouldn’t have been appropriate, what was needed for this occasion was a handcrafted spit made to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s design. A few sausages and […]
Read More..>>Moorish Skewers with Tabbouleh
We used a recipe from the Moro book to marinate some pork fillet before frying them off in the griddle pan and serving them with some tabbouleh. The marinade used saffron, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, oregano, garlic and olive oil. The meat was very tender but the marinade itself was rather heavy. If we do […]
Read More..>>Chicken Basque
We’d planned to have this yesterday but as the weather was good we barbecued instead. Stephen whipped this up yesterday afternoon and we reheated it when we got home from work tonight. It was tasty but didn’t take that well to being reheated.
Read More..>>Barbecue!!!!
So finally it’s a) the weekend, b) we don’t have any prior social engagements and c) it’s hot….leaving only one thing to do….BARBECUE!!! We started with corn. Stephen bought these last week with the sleeping bags husks still intact, despite the fact that he maintains he prefers them to be cooked without. I gently prised […]
Read More..>>Thai Skewers
A few days ago, we planned to have Thai lemongrass beef skewers tonight and hadn’t planned much else. Today we decided to have chicken satay as well, to follow the skewer theme. We managed to plan all of this without so much as a thought to anything non-meat related and this lack of thought continued […]
Read More..>>Beef Stirfry
We had a fair amount of beef left over from our roast yesterday, so we decided to make it into a stir fry. Nothing too fancy – just a made up, pseudo-Thai recipe using thinly sliced beef, red pepper, carrot, baby corn and broccoli to which we added chilli, lemongrass, garlic, lime juice, soy sauce […]
Read More..>>Roast Beef
Did I mention it was raining again today? We started talking about what to have for lunch before breakfast and it took us about 10 seconds to decide on roast beef. Stephen braved the weather to go in search of beef (well, go to the shop…it’s not like we live on a rambling country estate […]
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