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Salmon with Broad Beans and Tomatoes
I saw this salad on a food blog somewhere but can’t remember which one, I tracked the original recipe down to here though and set about cooking it last night. It was very simple and tasted really good, if a little too densely flavoured. Our version looks nothing like the picture either and I think […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti with Broad Beans, Prosciutto, Roasted Cherry Tomatoes, Pine Nuts and Basil
Kerri thought of this recipe when we recently made some disappointing asparagus spaghetti and we tried it last night. We roasted some cherry tomatoes, steamed some broad beans, toasted some pine nuts, grated some parmesan, tore up some basil leaves and cooked some spaghetti. When the spaghetti was done, we mixed all the rest of […]
Read More..>>Scotland
We’ve just got back from a week in Scotland where we visited both Aberfeldy and Edinburgh. The main purpose of our trip was to relax and eat some good food, both of which we achieved. One of our favourite places was the Courtyard, a bar/restaurant near to where we were staying in Aberfeldy. The menu […]
Read More..>>Pot Roast Pork Loin with Cider
Stephen was given Mark Hix’s book British Regional Food for Christmas last year and while we’ve both enjoyed reading it, we’ve never cooked anything from it. So today, when we decided to roast something for lunch we thought we’d make this dish which hails from the South West. We bought a piece of pork loin […]
Read More..>>Scallops and Pancetta with Jerusalem Artichoke and Potato Rosti
Does that win the prize for longest-ever-blog-post-title? We had some Jerusalem artichokes languishing in the fridge, Stephen had picked them up to go with the lamb on Sunday but we forgot them. We weren’t sure what to do with them but a quick search threw up lots of options for pairing them with scallops, never […]
Read More..>>Three Bird Roast!
Stephen and I have been wanting to make this for some time, since seeing it originally done by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. He did a 10 bird version for a Medieval feast which, although I’m sure is lovely, is just too much for the two of us. We opted for the smaller three birds and chose partridge, […]
Read More..>>Boxing Day Bubble and Squeak
Unsurprisingly, we had a huge amount of leftover food on Boxing Day. This pleased me though because as much as I love Christmas lunch, I also love, love, love leftovers. Particularly leftovers that can be turned into Bubble and Squeak. Luckily I’m not alone, my family agree (my mum says it was always an easy […]
Read More..>>Christmas Lunch
We spent Christmas with my mum and cooked lunch for the three of us there. As there was only the three of us we had chicken instead of turkey which we prefer anyway. The chicken was cooked in our usual way, rubbed with oil and salt and pepper and stuffed with herbs, lemon, onion and […]
Read More..>>Mince Pies and Mulled Wine
Today we made mince pies. I can’t remember making my own since I was small but I certainly eat enough of them every year (not until 1 December though). We made mincemeat to this recipe (which I think is Nigella’s): Hettie Potter’s suet-free mincemeat Makes about 2kg 250g soft dark sugar 250ml medium dry cider […]
Read More..>>Roasted Tomato Soup
We used this Waitrose recipe today to make a batch of soup for lunches. Despite the fact it’s August and supposed to be warm, I’ve found myself craving tomato soup for the last couple of weeks. Hopefully this’ll cure me and I can move onto the next thing to obsess about! The tomatoes were roasted […]
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