Archive for the 'Vegetables' Category
Thyme (and Roast Chicken)
As is tradition, on our first evening back from holiday we cooked roast chicken. On arriving home we noticed that our thyme plant had almost doubled in size. It seemed sensible therefore to stuff the chicken with thyme. It was delicious. We ate a lot of great food in Spain (more of which to come […]
Read More..>>Roast Loin of Pork
Roast pork is my favourite but we don’t eat it that often (1 April 2007 according to the archives) so I was really looking forward to lunch today and I wasn’t disappointed. The meat was tender and tasty and produced fantastic, crackly crackling – we achieved this by leaving the meat uncovered in the fridge […]
Read More..>>Aubergine Parmigiana
I had this for lunch recently and really enjoyed it so yesterday, we decided to try making our own using Jamie Oliver’s recipe from Jamie’s Italy. We were somewhat underwhelmed by it though, the flavours were good but I don’t think we griddled the aubergines for long enough as they were still slightly tough. It […]
Read More..>>Tortilla
Stephen made this at the weekend and has been eating it for lunches during the week. There are lots of different recipes for tortilla and many variations on the fillings but the method remains fairly constant: Finely slice potatoes and onions, fry slowly in olive oil Mix together five eggs, season, add to potato and […]
Read More..>>Lamb Rump and Champ
We had lots of potatoes and cabbage to use up this week and when we found some spring onions lurking in the fridge, the sensible option seemed to be to make champ. It’s a rather wintery dish for this time of year but it worked brilliantly with the lamb. The spring onions really complimented the […]
Read More..>>Halloumi
Several months ago, we had a griddle pan but it wasn’t a particularly good one. It was a non-stick one which still managed to stick, and it had quite shallow, wide ridges, which didn’t seem to work that well for griddling. At some point it mysteriously disappeared never to be seen again. Every now and […]
Read More..>>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..>>Cheese Salad
Kerri was out tonight and I was in the mood for something healthy. Mostly due to a late night last night. We did have rather a lot of salad at home waiting to be eaten and on the way home I was thinking of cooking something interesting and having salad with it. The more I […]
Read More..>>Cod with Chermoulla and Salad
Something quick and relatively easy last night. Kerri clipped a few recipes from magazines recently and we went through them and selected this one. I don’t have the recipe here, but we combined these ingredients in certain quantities: garlic, fresh chilli, paprika, ground cumin, salt, lemon juice, olive oil and chopped mint. Some of this […]
Read More..>>Asparagus Spaghetti
We weren’t sure what to eat tonight so I had a quick look online and this recipe from Waitrose caught my eye; the picture looked good, the flavours sounded interesting and Stephen agreed so we were all set. It was really disappointing though, there was very little flavour and the overall taste was bitter and […]
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