More Ultimate Chilli
This time, with rice. I actually had a baked potato, Stephen had the rice. We wanted something quick and easy tonight so pulled this out of the freezer to defrost this morning. Freezing had made the meat even more tender and the sauce had improved, as these things always do with storing and re-heating. The […]
Read More..>>Christopher’s – The Burger
We’ve long suspected this is the best burger in London but the last time we visited we were without a camera, knowing how infuriating a post without pictures is we decided to delay the write-up until we could capture the burger in all it’s glory. It took a while but a Friday night shopping trip […]
Read More..>>Spaghetti alla Vodka
This is one of those acclaimed pasta sauces that only takes as long to cook as the pasta does, the kind of dish I normally ignore in favour of long, slow-cooked ragus. I’m glad I stopped ignoring this though because I really enjoyed it and would happily eat it again tonight. The combination of the […]
Read More..>>The Ultimate Chilli Con Carne – Take Two
I should probably start by saying that this wasn’t an attempt to create something authentically Mexican (indeed, many would argue that no such dish exists in Mexican cooking) but more a convenient way of turning some cheap beef skirt I found in Waitrose on Easter Monday into something interesting. It was also a good opportunity […]
Read More..>>Slow Roast Shoulder of Lamb
Easter equals lamb, just like Christmas always used to equal turkey until everyone realised it was tasteless and quite difficult to cook it evenly without drying the whole thing out. Of course, lamb can dry out too but not if you cook it this way. Well, it might do if you left it too long […]
Read More..>>Hamburgers
Stephen and I have been ill all week and existing on plain pasta and dry toast. While I like to think our readers are fascinated by what we eat every night, even I’m not stupid enough to think anyone is interested in looking at pictures of that, hence the lack of posts. Knowing we were […]
Read More..>>Lasagne
We celebrated Mother’s Day on Saturday night and my mum requested lasagne for dinner. I actually made up the ragu (roughly according to this recipe) on Friday with the intention of taking it back to Kent with us on Saturday. Only we got halfway there and realised we’d left it behind. A short dash back […]
Read More..>>Beef and Oyster Pie
This week is British Pie Week and with not a lot planned for dinner this weekend, we were grateful for the suggestion. This was actually supposed to be tomorrow’s lunch but we ended up swapping things around since tonight’s planned dish needed to spend some time in the freezer to tenderise, more on that tomorrow. […]
Read More..>>Brilliant Pizza
We have been making pizza on and off for a few years now, with varying levels of success. There were a couple of times when we did pretty well and thought we had definitely cracked it, but haven’t been able to keep it consistent. With our old not very hot oven we had a clever […]
Read More..>>Chillied Tortilla Soup and Chilli-Seasoned Pot Roasted Pork
So, to go with the tortillas we made earlier, we decided on a soup to start and something to fill them later. We had originally considered three courses all using tortillas but that seemed a little much when it actually came down to it. We actually started with some pork scratchings and guacamole, inspired by […]
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