Archive for the 'Meat' Category
Stuffed Pasta
1 large onion, finely chopped 3 gloves garlic, crushed 1 stick celery, finely chopped 20g porcini mushrooms 500g minced beef 3tbs Marsala (or sherry) 2tbsps tomato puree S&P 1tbs parsley, finely chopped Generous grating nutmeg 1tbs worcester sauce 125ml milk Fry onion, garlic, celery and mushrooms on a medium heat until soft and translucent. Add […]
Read More..>>Sausage Casserole
One of my food-related new year’s resolutions was to perfect the sausage casserole. This was my first attempt and is a long way off what I was hoping for. This method requires you to fry the sausages and shallots, then add garlic and bacon and fry a little more, then add stock, wine, mustard and […]
Read More..>>Chicken and Meringue (not together)
Last night, we had people over for dinner and decided to cook Jamie’s chicken in pastry. After making up a dough of flour and water, the seasoned (garlic, lemon, sage and thyme) chickens are encased in pastry and baked in the oven for an hour. Once they’re ready, the pastry is broken open and discarded […]
Read More..>>Pork in Cider Vinegar Sauce
This was from Delia’s Winter, Stephen has been super-keen to make it all week so, on Wednesday night we cooked it ready for last night’s dinner. The flavours were good, but the meat was quite dry. The sauce is thickened with creme fraiche which I don’t think worked very well. It needed to be thicker.
Read More..>>Chicken Fajitatatatas
We sort of made this up as we went along. Marinated the chicken pieces in some olive oil, lime juice, chilli, coriander, garlic, salt and pepper. Fried it off in the wok, removed to a plate, fried off the red onion and peppers and then served with corn wraps, tomato salsa and sour cream. Could […]
Read More..>>Cabbage and Bacon Galette
This is a recipe we’ve been wanting to try for ages, from Joanne Harris’ French Kitchen. It uses a sort of batter made from bacon, shallots, garlic, parsley, flour and milk. This is spooned into a dish, topped with steamed savoy cabbage and finished with another layer of the batter; it’s then baked in the […]
Read More..>>Holiday
Below are some of the food related pictures we took on our recent holiday to Cape Town. Chicken with mustard and mushroom sauce – the recipe called for salmon-trout but we couldn’t find any so used chicken instead. It turned out well but the sauce would have benefitted from thickening. Stephen used the leftover sauce […]
Read More..>>Peppers Stuffed with Chunky Chilli
Over the weekend we cooked some chunky chilli and froze it to eat this week. We had it tonight, stuffed into peppers and baked in the oven. It was tasty but not mind-blowing. We could have left the peppers in a bit longer but we were worried about drying out the chilli that was in […]
Read More..>>Pork Chops
Contining our quest to cook the perfect pork chops and to eat healthily, we chose pork chops for dinner this evening. We did them with the same rub we used last time: garlic, salt, rosemary and bay. We pan fried them slowly as they were really big and served them with mashed sweet potato, green […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
There’s not much I can say about roast chicken that I haven’t said before. We eat it a lot, especially on a Sunday. We always cook it much the same way, salt and pepper on the outside and inside the carcass. Olive oil on the outside. Some combination of garlic, onion, lemon and herbs inside […]
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