Archive for the 'Vegetables' Category
Very Sagey Roast Chicken
Our herb garden is growing very successfully and one of the best plants is the sage. We’ve neglected it somewhat though so today decided to use some with our chicken. We filled the cavity with some of the bigger leaves, pushed some under the skin and chopped some up to make stuffing. The result: perfectly […]
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..>>Arbroath Smoked Salmon and Cheese Salad
Stephen and I went out for lunch today so decided on fishy salad for dinner. When we got home though, we both changed our minds. I felt like spaghetti with my salmon and Stephen was craving a cheese salad. So, that’s what we did. I can’t comment on the cheese salad but the salmon spaghetti […]
Read More..>>Steak and Dauphinoise Potatoes
On Friday night we had steak and dauphinoise potatoes. We were worried that we wouldn’t get to our butcher before they closed on the way back from work, so I called them and they were nice enough to cut us two nice ribeye steaks and leave them at the deli next door for us to […]
Read More..>>Gazpacho for Lunch…
I had a day off today, so had to look around for lunch. I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t make it myself; I bought some gazpacho from our local deli. It was good and tasted a lot fresher than carton soups from supermarkets.
Read More..>>Chicken
Today, we decided to cook something with chicken. After the elaborateness of yesterday’s meal, this seems a little plain and dull but it was actually very tasty and could easily be adapted into a number of different meals. Chicken thighs, red pepper, red onion, courgette, mushrooms, garlic, rosemary and some disappointing wine that had been […]
Read More..>>Rib of Beef
As it was St George’s Day today, we decided a celebration was in order. We started with some Nyetimber, an English sparkling wine made in West Sussex: We’ve had this before and this bottle has been sitting on the wine rack waiting to be drunk for a while. It’s a really good wine, easy to […]
Read More..>>Pork Chops
Pork chops stuffed with garlic, bay and rosemary. Served with garlic mushrooms, braised lemony leeks and roasted butternut. Very simple but very tasty.
Read More..>>Slutty Spaghetti with Asparagus
I couldn’t decide what to eat this evening but after the success of last night’s pasta, I thought I’d try something similar with asparagus. I love asparagus and am determined to eat as much of it as possible while it’s in season. I usually just have it with butter or parma ham so was keen […]
Read More..>>Camargue Red Rice Salad with Feta Cheese
We’ve had this rice in the cupboard for a while but haven’t really known what to do with it so tonight we tried this Delia Smith recipe. It was tasty but not brilliant; there was a lot of raw onion, shallot and garlic in it which made it quite sharp. The rice itself was highly […]
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