Archive for the 'Meat' Category
Baked Potatoes with Cheese and Bacon
Last week, we cooked baked potatoes with smoked trout which were brilliant. Tonight, we fancied something easy so decided to do the same but with cheese and bacon (or, CHEESE and BACON as Stephen put it). They were tasty but needed more cheese and more bacon.
Read More..>>Stir Fried Beef
After yeserday’s not-very-successful braised beef, we were left with a surfeit of meat which we stir fried this evening. This was much more successful than yesterday’s offering and here, mostly for my mum’s sake, is the recipe. Hi mum 🙂 Ingredients Leftover beef, sliced into strips Onion – half, sliced into moons Garlic – two […]
Read More..>>Summer Braised Beef
I found this recipe in a magazine a little while ago, it was described as being a good alternative to the traditional Sunday Roast. The weather wasn’t all that summery today but we thought we’d give it a go anyway. The result: disappointing. The flavours (pale ale, red onion, garlic, celery, bay, peppercorns) were good […]
Read More..>>Barbecued Burgers
This afternoon we had burgers on the barbecue. We bought some beef mince and Kerri made up some burgers with onion, parsely, salt, pepper and mustard. To start, we had some salad with borage, which was apparently “herb of the week” at Waitrose. Normally, I’d be quite put off by such blatant marketing tactics, but […]
Read More..>>Thai Green Curry and Curry Puffs
Last night we had Thai green curry again. I enjoy making the curry paste in the mortar and pestle; I’m sure I’ll get bored of it one day but I haven’t got there yet. And we had a friend round who was really sweet and brought Malaysian curry puffs which we had as a starter. […]
Read More..>>Meatballs and Spaghetti
We decided that since we had some mince in the freezer, we’d made meatballs similar to the ones we’ve made before. So yesterday Kerri made up the meatballs and today we made tomato sauce and then started frying the meatballs before putting them into the sauce. When we were frying them though, we realised from […]
Read More..>>Chicken and Vegetable Stirfry
We had a fair amount of left over chicken from last night to use up, so we decided on a stir fry. To the chicken we added two cloves of garlic, some ginger (dried unfortunately; we didn’t have any fresh), a sauce mixture (soy sauce, oyster sauce, rice wine, sesame oil and sesame seeds) and […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
It’s become something of a tradition that when we return from holidays we eat roast chicken…well, this is the second time it’s happened so it’s on the way to being a tradition. We roasted the chicken with onion, garlic, sage and lemon and served it with sagey roast potatoes, stuffing and some green vegetables. It […]
Read More..>>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..>>Pork Chops and Roasted Vegetables
Tonight we had pork loin steaks with some roasted vegetables. We roasted the vegetables (red pepper, sweet potato, onions and mushrooms) in the oven for a while, then pan-fried the pork loin steaks after dusting them with salt, pepper and paprika. The vegetables were really good, but I overcooked the pork a bit and it […]
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