Archive for the 'Vegetables' Category
First Barbecue Of The Year
This Easter weekend saw the temperature in London reach 20 degrees. To celebrate, Stephen and I barbecued. To start with, we had prawns marinated in garlic, chilli, oil and lime juice: We followed this with garlic and rosemary lamb chops, corn on the cob, roasted butternut with spinach and feta and salad: It was all […]
Read More..>>Spring Is In The Air
Spring is one of my favourite times of year. Since becoming more interested in food, we’ve been eating seasonally and locally. We make a real effort to only eat British and, as far as possible, to buy local produce. This can be limiting; winter is tough as the choice of produce is much less but […]
Read More..>>Jersey Royals
Tonight, we used up the leftover pork that we roasted yesterday. We had some leftover cauliflower cheese and salad that Stephen made a brilliant honey and mustard dressing to go with (honey, Dijon, olive oil, cider vinegar and salt) and the first Jersey Royals of the season. I’m not a huge fan of new potatoes […]
Read More..>>Lettuce
Stephen and I have a small courtyard garden, we haven’t had any outside space at all before so this is quite exciting for us. As we like to cook, it made sense to plant some vegetables and herbs. We’ve got a small trough with thyme, sage and rosemary; some pots with mint and lavender and […]
Read More..>>Steak with Butternut and Caramelised Onions
We decided that steak with salad would be fairly healthy for a Friday night. We had a couple of sirlion steaks and roasted some butternut pieces and mushrooms to go with them. We also cooked down a red onion until it was quite gooey and caramelised with just a few “intentional” black bits. And there […]
Read More..>>Raspberries
On Valentines Day, I had planned to make frozen berries with hot chocolate sauce but we were both too full to eat it. The raspberries have been in the freezer ever since so tonight, we had them with Green and Black’s vanilla ice-cream. The rasperries weren’t quite as frozen as they look in this picture […]
Read More..>>Happy St Patrick’s Day!
Although neither of us are Irish, we never let a food holiday pass us by. Today, in true Irish spirit, we made beef in Guinness with colcannon. The casserole was good, if a little sweet but the colcannon was brilliant. G
Read More..>>Mixed Mushroom Pasta
Tonight, we made a mixed mushroom pasta dish by frying some shallots and garlic, adding the mixed mushrooms with some thyme and lemon juice then finishing with brandy and creme fraiche. It was ok but a bit bland. Would have been good with bacon. And cheese. G
Read More..>>Lamb Chops with Roasted Vegetables
Tonight we had planned to make lamb kofta, but the lamb mince that we’d bought on Saturday had not lasted well so we bought some lamb chops at the last minute. We seasoned the lamb chops with salt and garlic and pan-fried them, then sprinkled them with parsely and a squeeze of lemon juice. We […]
Read More..>>Cauliflower Cheese (and Roasted Butternut with Chicken Casserole)
We had some chicken thighs that needed using up so last night, while we were cooking dinner, Stephen make a quick casserole. I heated this up tonight and served it with some vegetables that also needed using up. I made some cauliflower cheese and some roasted butternut. I didn’t think they were going to go […]
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