Steak and Roasted Vegetables
After a week of healthy eating, I felt like a treat but not something so bad it would undo all my hard work. While eating the stuffed aubergine yesterday, we commented that it would go well with steak….we must have still had steak on our minds today because when we realised we didn’t have anything for dinner we both immediately thought of steak.
So, steak it was. 21 day aged sirloin steak, cooked rare with salt and pepper, and garlic.
We had mushrooms to use up and intended to fry them off with some red onion, somehow it ended up becoming roasted vegetables with three kinds of pepper and mandolined carrots. The carrots were good, we haven’t done them this way before but will be doing them again, with parsnips and beetroot to make root vegetable crisps.
Stuffed Aubergine
We followed a recipe for stuffed aubergine (we got one in our vegetable box) which was stuffed with red pepper, courgettes and mozzarella. Somehow, after about six weeks of courgettes, we didn’t get any this week so we used mushrooms instead. It wasn’t a great success. The insides of the aubergines were coated with red pesto and I didn’t put enough on. Also, it was generally under seasoned. We’ll know for next time – more seasoning and probably more cheese too. Mmmm cheeeeeeese.
Mushrooms on Toast and Salmon and Couscous
For an evening of healthy eating, we decided on baked salmon fillets, a small serving of couscous and green salad. The mushrooms were looking a little past their best, so instead of having them in the salad, Kerri decided we should cook them and have them on toast as a starter. It was an excellent idea:
This was then followed by the salmon (topped with a little red pesto) and couscous. We also had some hastily-roasted green pepper slices because we were being very conscientious in terms of using up all the vegetables in the fridge before the arrival of this week’s vegetable box tomorrow:
Chocolate Week 2006
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How come I didn’t know about this? Obviously, I now have to go and eat lots of chocolate so that I can write about it. Oh, life is hard.
Partridge and Chicken. Separately.
For the first time in months, we ate different dinners. Kerri had chicken breast and salad because she was being healthy. I had partridge and gem squash because I was being greedy. Mmmm… partridge and bacon… mmmmmm…. gem squash and butter…. a good opportuniy to use up some vegetable box ingredients.
Yorkshire Pudding
One of the first photographs we ever took of something we cooked was Yorkshire pudding. It was big, it was crunchy and it was tasty. Since then, Stephen has perfected the recipe and now it’s big and crunchy and tasty every time.
We had it with topside of beef, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, savoy cabbage, carrots, courgettes and peas (bumper vegetable box this week). And wholegrain mustard and horseradish and Stephen’s gravy.
It was delicious and there’s enough beef left over for roast beef baguettes for lunch tomorrow 🙂
Pizza
We started this blog on a Saturday. We were supposed so start it on a Friday with our first post being about pizza. We made the pizza but it was something of a disaster; out of date yeast, resorting to pre-packed pizza base mix, forgetting to leave the dough to rest…you get the idea.
But we were determined and this time we were prepared. On Friday night we went to the Italian deli and bought mozarella, two types of salami, olives and artichokes. On Saturday we bought one of those oven-trays with the holes in and we made pizza. It was brilliant. Next time though we need a thicker tomato sauce, less mushrooms and more cheese.
We had the pizza with salad but that just got in the way. Pizza should be eaten alone. Or with a Stephen.
Halloumi with Roasted Vegetables
We got carrots and courgettes in our vegetable box this week, we got them last week too and didn’t eat them. In an effort to use them up we decided on roasted vegetables with halloumi. It was tasty. And squeaky.
Chunky Chilli with Darren’s Guacamole
This is just a normal chilli con carne recipe (I don’t like that name) made with chunks of beef instead of minced beef. The flavours are the same but it feels more casseroley in the mouth. Next time I’ll dice the beef smaller though.
We knew we were going to get home late last night so I made this in advance, it gives the flavours time to develop and makes me feel like a Domestic Goddess 😉
We ate the kidney beans seperately because I’m not that keen on them and also because when I made the chilli I had forgotten to soak the beans. We also had nachos, wraps (for Stephen, although last night I decided I do actually like them) and wholemeal pitta bread for me.
And we had Darren’s guacamole too 🙂
Risotto with Prawns and Tomato
Stephen made this on Tuesday night to use up some leftover prawns from lunchtime. It was good but we decided that next time we made it we would add some lemon juice and parsley to freshen it up. Stephen thought it was a bit too hot (I think?) but I liked the heat.
