Archive for the 'Vegetables' Category
Roasted Vegetable Lasagne
We’ve only cooked this dish once before, partly I think because it’s quite time consuming. However, we planned for this by roasting the vegetables over the weekend so that all we needed to do today was assemble the lasagne and cook in the oven. The dish doesn’t suffer from the pre-roasting and it obviously makes […]
Read More..>>Mushroom Risotto
Kerri was going to be out today, so we hadn’t planned anything particularly elaborate. As it was though, she wasn’t feeling well and stayed at home. Which meant that we needed dinner and hadn’t planned any. Kerri suggested mushroom risotto with thyme and lemon, which sounded like a good idea so we made chicken stock […]
Read More..>>Beef in Mirin and Soy
Yesterday heralded the start of our new year healthy eating plan. In honour of the occasion I spent some time on Sunday going through our recipe files looking for low-fat dishes that looked exciting. I find it helps to be organised about what you’re eating so those mid-afternoon lows aren’t too difficult to get over, […]
Read More..>>Tartiflette!
I’ve been really excited about this all day, it’s been on our “Things To Cook Soon” list since last year but the amount of cheese and cream has always given us an excuse not to cook it. However, our new year diet starts on Monday so we decided to go crazy this evening and this […]
Read More..>>Stuffed Mushrooms
Stephen bought some enormo-mushrooms yesterday for the stew but they looked too good to slice up so instead we stuffed them and had them for lunch today. I part cooked them in the oven before stuffing them with a mixture of cheese, garlic, breadcrumbs and pancetta. We served them with some lighly toasted brown bread. […]
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..>>Marinated Cucumber and Wild Boar Chops with Noodles
On Saturday, while searching for lamb shanks, I also discovered some wild boar chops and of course had to buy them. My memory told me that the sign had said that they were marinated in sesame and ginger, so we planned some Oriental side dishes. On opening the chops, we found bits of thyme in […]
Read More..>>Lamb Shanks with Dauphinoise Potatoes
While browsing some of my favourite food blogs last week, I came across Pixie’s post about lamb shanks. I really wanted to make them there and then as they looked so good but it was a school night and I knew Stephen and I would want to eat as soon as we got home and […]
Read More..>>Sea Bass with Savoy Cabbage, Bacon and Beer
While watching Saturday Kitchen this morning we saw Rick Stein cook this dish with cod. It looked good so we thought we’d do it this evening with sea bass. We fried off some bacon, onions and garlic before adding some beer and cabbage. This was simmered for about 10 minutes before adding some butter. Meanwhile […]
Read More..>>Roast Lamb
Today we decided on roast lamb for dinner. We didn’t have any anchovies and neither did any of our local shops so we bought some anchovy paste as an alternative and mixed it with rosemary and garlic before spreading on top of the lamb. It worked brilliantly and resulted in tender, tasty lamb. We also […]
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