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Chicken Curry
So, as you can imagine, a 2 kilo chicken generates rather a lot of leftovers. I’m not great with chicken leftovers, they scream PIE to me and unfortunately, that doesn’t fit with our current efforts to eat healthily. Admittedly, a chicken curry doesn’t automatically scream HEALTH but Stephen found a Good Food recipe that was […]
Read More..>>Gilt Head Bream
We spent another weekend in Kent and visited Broadstairs on Saturday. The weather was good and we enjoyed honeycomb, hazelnut and mango ice-creams from Morellis, a lovely old-fashioned ice-cream parlour overlooking the beach. Broadstairs doesn’t have a working harbour unfortunately so, on the way back to my mum’s, we stopped off in Whitstable to pick […]
Read More..>>Broad Bean, Pea and Lemon Spaghetti
This is another recipe from The Modern Vegetarian by Maria Ella. After the success of last week’s broad bean dish, we were keen to try something else that had been recommended to us from the same book, even if it did mean yet more bean shelling. The original recipe included asparagus which we left out […]
Read More..>>The Quest for Perfect Pizza
It seems very self-obsessed to call something that you’ve cooked yourself “perfect” but, having spent a fair amount of time getting our recipe just how we wanted it, I think we’ve finally mastered our own version of perfect pizza. We’ve experimented with different types of dough and have finally settled on Jamie Oliver’s recipe – […]
Read More..>>Weekend Barbecue Number One
We spent Saturday enjoying the sunshine at a friend’s annual barbecue. Amongst other things (that sadly didn’t photograph well), we ate squid that had been marinated in chilli and a Japanese spice I can’t remember the name of and mackerel that had spent the morning sucking up some red curry paste. We took along a […]
Read More..>>Red Lentil Dahl and Roasted Cauliflower
Yesterday’s lentils were bumped to today due to a delicious roast chicken getting in the way, but we got to them finally. There are as many recipes for this sort of dish as there are people who have cooked it; this one is a merging of various recipes and home-made versions that I’ve used in […]
Read More..>>Rajma – Red Kidney Bean Curry
Last week we had decided to cook a bean-based curry this week. Having had sausages last night for the first time in ages, we were in the mood for sausages again today, but bean curry it was. That probably wasn’t a very good place to start as our hearts weren’t quite in it, however we […]
Read More..>>Pasta with Pancetta and Broad Beans
Early dinner this evening so that we can take advantage of the last of the sun in the park. We saw these tennis racquet pasta shapes in our local deli recently and thought they would be fun to eat during Wimbledon fortnight. The dish itself was a little claggy from the cream and would have […]
Read More..>>Indian Barbecued Chicken and Lamb Biryani
We decided to plan ahead for Saturday and do something a little more elaborate than a mid-week meal. And while we were keen to involve the barbecue, we didn’t want that to be the sole focus of it in case it rained. So first up was barbecued chicken legs, which at a push we could […]
Read More..>>Burgers on the Barbecue
This was our third attempt at perfecting our hamburger recipe and by jove, I think we have it. What was important to us was a burger that retained its meaty flavour but had just the right amount of other flavours to complement it. Once the basics are there then we can play around with the […]
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