Archive for the 'Vegetables' Category
Mushroom and Thyme Risotto
Tonight, we had planned to have salmon fillets for dinner but we were cold and hungry. Stephen found this Jamie Oliver recipe in The Naked Chef, we had all the ingredients so we left the salmon in the fridge. It was really good.
Read More..>>Cabbage and Bacon Galette
This is a recipe we’ve been wanting to try for ages, from Joanne Harris’ French Kitchen. It uses a sort of batter made from bacon, shallots, garlic, parsley, flour and milk. This is spooned into a dish, topped with steamed savoy cabbage and finished with another layer of the batter; it’s then baked in the […]
Read More..>>Holiday
Below are some of the food related pictures we took on our recent holiday to Cape Town. Chicken with mustard and mushroom sauce – the recipe called for salmon-trout but we couldn’t find any so used chicken instead. It turned out well but the sauce would have benefitted from thickening. Stephen used the leftover sauce […]
Read More..>>Peppers Stuffed with Chunky Chilli
Over the weekend we cooked some chunky chilli and froze it to eat this week. We had it tonight, stuffed into peppers and baked in the oven. It was tasty but not mind-blowing. We could have left the peppers in a bit longer but we were worried about drying out the chilli that was in […]
Read More..>>Pork Chops
Contining our quest to cook the perfect pork chops and to eat healthily, we chose pork chops for dinner this evening. We did them with the same rub we used last time: garlic, salt, rosemary and bay. We pan fried them slowly as they were really big and served them with mashed sweet potato, green […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
There’s not much I can say about roast chicken that I haven’t said before. We eat it a lot, especially on a Sunday. We always cook it much the same way, salt and pepper on the outside and inside the carcass. Olive oil on the outside. Some combination of garlic, onion, lemon and herbs inside […]
Read More..>>Rack of Lamb
For the main course, we had rack of lamb with a garlic, rosemary and bay rub. We’ve used this rub before, on pork chops, it’s brilliant and really versatile. We served it medium rare, with sweet potato and green beans from our local greengrocer. The sweetness of the sweet potato worked really well with the […]
Read More..>>Chicken
Chicken legs, roasted in the oven with green beans and mashed butternut. Stephen’s was wrapped in pancetta. It wasn’t very exciting. There are quite a few weeks of healthiness to go, at least for me, so I am going to have to start thinking more creatively. G
Read More..>>Lemon Sole with Roasted Vegetables
Today was our first day back at work, and, like thousands of others, our first day of healthy eating. We decided on fish and vegetables; no potatoes and no wine (ahem, Stephen). The lemon sole was marinated in oil, rosemary, parsley, salt and pepper and garlic. The vegetables: butternut, carrot, red and yellow pepper, courgette, […]
Read More..>>Pork Chops with Mashed Swede and Roasted Butternut
We’re kind of in limbo at the moment, no vegetable box to plan our meals around, no weekly menu plan to work to and barely any food in the house. This is partly due to our recent move but also, partly due to the fact that we are GOING ON HOLIDAY on Wednesday 🙂 So, […]
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