Lentil Ragu
It doesn’t happen often but sometimes, I just don’t feel like cooking. It’s more likely to happen if there isn’t anything exciting to cook with which is precisely what happened this evening. Faced with a cupboard full of beans and lentils, inspiration deserted me and no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t think […]
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I’m not entirely convinced that salad is the right term for this dish, given that the vegetables were pretty heavily outweighed by bacon, cheese and bread fried in olive oil but, as I can’t think of anything better, that’s what we’re going with. Very easy to put together, just steam the peas and broad beans […]
Read More..>>Pasta with Pancetta and Broad Beans
Early dinner this evening so that we can take advantage of the last of the sun in the park. We saw these tennis racquet pasta shapes in our local deli recently and thought they would be fun to eat during Wimbledon fortnight. The dish itself was a little claggy from the cream and would have […]
Read More..>>Pancetta, Sage and Broad Bean Risotto
As I think we’ve mentioned before, our sage plant is going crazy so we’ve been trying to think of ways to use it up. That, coupled with a risotto craving led us to this evening’s meal. We had some really good stock in the freezer that was made with two chicken carcasses which leant a […]
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