Archive for the 'Meat' Category
Prawns, Steak and Dauphinoise Potatoes
Tonight, we had a mini feast. We started with tiger prawns (the last four in the shop) marinated in oil, garlic, lemon and chilli; then fried. This was followed by two really big rib-eye steaks, seasoned with pepper then cooked medium rare: We served these with dauphinoise potatoes: It was all brilliant, and there are […]
Read More..>>Risotto
Not very exciting, but tasty. Bacon and broad bean risotto, with vermouth and rosemary. G
Read More..>>Moussaka
We’ve got a busy week coming up so thought we would cook something that could be frozen and reheated when we were hungry. We didn’t get to go to the butcher yesterday so were reliant on supermarket mince, we chose beef mince to make our moussaka as we’ve been disappointed by the lamb mince we’ve […]
Read More..>>Rabbit with Garlic
Today, we cooked rabbit. It’s been on our “Things To Cook Soon” list for a while and yesterday, we found some in Selfridges Food Hall. The recipe was from Fergus Henderson’s “Nose To Tail Eating”, a book we’ve had for a while but not cooked from. It was quite a simple recipe, brown the rabbit […]
Read More..>>Cumberland Sausages and Mashed Potatoes
Tonight, we had planned to make beef stroganoff but when we came to cook it we found the beef wasn’t in good shape. So, we made a quick dash to the deli to find something else. Our choices were fairly limited so we resorted to sausages. And boy am I glad we did. They were […]
Read More..>>Potatoes and Chorizo
We have a glut of potatoes and some leftover chorizo so decided to make a sort of patatas bravas type-thingy. It was my idea but Stephen actually cooked it, I think he basically fried off the par-boiled potatoes and removed them from the pan. Cooked the onion and chorizo with some garlic, threw the potatoes […]
Read More..>>Meatballs with Spaghetti and Spicy Tomato Sauce
We had an interesting trip to the butcher last week, we needed some beef mince to make something or other so the nice butcher man (who we think is called Paul though we are yet to confirm this) weighed it out and got on with finding the other things we needed. When he came to […]
Read More..>>Vietnamese and Laotian Food for Chinese New Year
For Chinese new year, we decided to cook Vietnamese and Laotian food. Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? I realised that we had our ingredients laid out a little like the “store cupboard” photograph that seems standard fodder for the introduction section of many cookbooks, so I took a picture: First course was squid served with […]
Read More..>>Valentine Dinner
Kerri and I planned a Valentine’s dinner – she planned the starter and dessert and I planned the main course. We only found out what each other had planned when we started preparing it on the day. Very exciting! First was scallops with chorizo and salad leaves. These went well together; maybe the chorizo could […]
Read More..>>Chicken and Artichoke and Mushroom Pie
This started off in our heads as a casserole but, somewhere along the line, became a pie, and a tasty pie at that. We started off by browning the chicken and removing it from the pan, next we softened some onion, garlic, celery and carrot. Then we threw in the mushrooms (chestnut, white and another […]
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