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Rocket Pesto
I wasn’t sure what to eat tonight, Stephen is out and usually when I cook something just for myself it turns out badly. I spent a while looking for easy pasta dishes but didn’t find anything that excited me so I decided on cheese on toast, my usual cooking-for-one standby. On the way home though […]
Read More..>>Chicken Casserole
Yesterday Kerri made chicken casserole with stock that we’d made on Saturday. Today we reheated it and had it for dinner and it was really good. It had a lovely depth of very chickeny flavour and it was just the thing to have on a rather chilly evening. Winter appears to be arriving and we […]
Read More..>>Breakfast Bread
This morning Stephen made breakfast bread, to his mum’s recipe. He used to eat this at home in South Africa when he was small. It was delicous, fruity and cinammony and perfect eaten with butter. 1 cup wholewheat flour 1 cup digestive bran 3 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg […]
Read More..>>Prawn and Squid Stir-fry
Having decided that stir fries can be a tasty and quick way to comply with our healthy eating regime, we tried another one tonight. This was a Thai style stir fry with prawn and squid. We added vegetables (yellow pepper, baby corn and mange tout) to an existing recipe. The recipe called for insane amounts […]
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..>>Fish Pie
This morning, we were set on using up the chorizo in the fridge that we bought back from Barcelona but by the time we got to the supermarket we had decided to make fish pie; funny how that happens. We haven’t made this for a long time, in fact I don’t think it’s featured anywhere […]
Read More..>>Lemongrass Beef and Thai Curry
Last night I came home to the smell of cooking, Stephen was busy mortaring and pestling lots of different ingredients for our Thai feast. We started with lemongrass beef, which we’ve had before. We grilled the beef rather than frying and, along with the extra marinating, it really seemed to help the flavour. This was […]
Read More..>>Risotto with Chicken, Bacon and Mushrooms
We were both really hungry at work today and fancied risotto. Kerri had been going on about it for a few days and it had affected me too. We bought lardons, chicken and mushrooms and picked some rosemary from our fledgeling herb garden and set about making the risotto. Everything was going swimmingly until it […]
Read More..>>Le Creuseted Chicken
On Sunday, we use our new casserole dish to roast a chicken. We began by browning the chicken on all sides and removing if from the pot. Next, we sweated off some carrot, celery, onion and garlic. We then added the chicken back to the pot with some sage, thyme and bay. We added about […]
Read More..>>Moussaka
Mmm this turned out really well; the picture doesn’t really do it justice. Kerri has written out the partially home-grown, partially looked-up recipe that we used: 500g lamb mince Onion 3 gloves garlic Red wine Vegetable stock Large tin of tomatoes Mint Oregano Cinnamon Bay Salt and pepper Fry onions and garlic until translucent. Add […]
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