Archive for the 'Pasta/Pizza/Pulses' Category
Spaghetti with Crab, Chilli and Rocket
Quite a while back we went through a phase of cooking crab and chilli pasta quite a few times. We haven’t done it for a while, but when we were wondering what to cook for a quick Saturday lunch on an almost-spring-like day just as we were passing a fishmonger, we popped inside to get […]
Read More..>>Cannelloni
To my astonishment, it seems that it’s been almost a month since we last ate pasta. For a pasta lover like me this is practically unheard of and explains the craving I’ve had for most of the week. A simple puttanesca or carbonara really wouldn’t have been fitting in these circumstances so I started thinking […]
Read More..>>Carbonara
Both Stephen and I were home late last night and we didn’t have anything planned for dinner. It’s been a bit of a challenge to find interesting things to eat since I had my wisdom tooth out, I’ve been craving lamb chops but don’t think I’ll be able to chew them. I ended up in […]
Read More..>>Barley Risotto with Root Vegetables
Looking at our “this week last year” list, there is only one entry this week – Scotland. Because that’s where we were on holiday last year. A quick browse through the pictures revealed ballotine of pheasant with barley risotto. I remember that barley risotto as being rather good, but it was normal (i.e. rice) risotto […]
Read More..>>Red Lentil Lasagne
For someone who previously said they’re not a big fan of lentils and beans, I seem to be cooking with them a lot lately. Now I understand them a bit better, I’m really starting to enjoy the flavour and texture they bring to a dish. The other great thing about them is that it’s so […]
Read More..>>Prawn and Vegetable Gyoza Dumplings with Marinated Carrot and Cucumber Salads
At our recent Chinese New Year dinner, our friends gave us some left-over gyoza wrappers in case we wanted to make our own. Which we did! So this evening when I arrived home, Kerri had minced some prawns and mixed them with chopped spring onions, water chestnuts, carrots and celery in an approximation of this […]
Read More..>>Pizza Fiorentina
Friday night is pizza night! Not always, but sometimes. This was one of those sometimes. Often we have fantastic success with pizza, but this wasn’t one of those times. Keeping in mind last time where the dough was very sticky, we added a bit more flour this time, but it just made the base rather […]
Read More..>>Lentils with Spaghetti and Rice
It’s not often that Stephen and I have different dinners (unless something goes wrong and he perseveres with the wrongness while I reach for the toast) but tonight he fancied rice and I fancied pasta. I probably should have had rice too since we had spaghetti last night but, as much as I like rice, […]
Read More..>>Puttanesca
There’s not much we can say about this that we haven’t said before and we toyed with the idea of not posting it at all but, given that this is a diary of our dinners, here it is. We both got home late this evening and didn’t have any plans for dinner. This is very […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti with Anchovies, Chilli, Garlic, Brussels Sprouts and Walnuts
After quite a long run of successes and almost-successes, we were due for a dismal failure some time soon and this was it. In a strange series of coincidences, we had arrived at the idea for the dish by instant messenger conversation and had typed each of the ingredients at exactly the same time as […]
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