Really Good Roast Pork Leftovers
We bought a larger joint of pork than we needed yesterday so that we would have leftovers for this evening. Stephen suggested we turn them into something vaguely Mexican so, when I got home from work, I started on some guacamole. We had some leftover gravy too which Stephen used as the starting point for […]
Read More..>>Chilli and Baked Potatoes
Kerri had put on a big pot of chilli today, which we ate with baked potatoes. The chilli was good, a mix of minced beef and beans, and the potatoes had very crunchy skins (mostly because we left them in the oven for a long time while we waited for the beans to cook through…).
Read More..>>Chilli and Chicken Fajitas
It was my brother’s 30th birthday last week so, apart from the surprise dinner which we didn’t photograph, we invited some people to my mum’s house for his choice of dinner. He opted for chilli con carne which we duly provided, alongside a bean chilli for the non meat-eaters and some less spicy chicken fajitas […]
Read More..>>Drunken Beans with Coriander and Bacon
Normally, when I don’t have a plan for dinner, I start with the meat or fish and work from there. Tonight’s dinner however was conceived entirely around the avocados. Planning ahead for last weekend’s Mexican meal, I bought the only four avocados I could find which were rock hard. I put them into a paper […]
Read More..>>Mexican Feast
Last night, we had some friends over for a pre-Christmas get-together. We had originally planned to do traditional buffet-style food but a lack of time meant we opted for a throw-it-in-the-oven-and-leave-it-to-cook kind of dish instead. Since we’ve been cooking a lot of Mexican food lately, we took the opportunity to cook something more elaborate from […]
Read More..>>Leftovers
This is our second freezer-dinner this week, tonight’s excuse being that the work on our bathroom was finished today and I wanted to spend the afternoon cleaning up after the builders instead of cooking. This originally started life as Mexican Bean Stew and had a lot more liquid in the final dish than tonight’s version, […]
Read More..>>Chilli and Baked Potatoes
Having spent most of the weekend in Kent, we arrived back in London fairly late this afternoon and in no mood for cooking. Luckily, we knew there were two portions of bean chilli in the freezer that I had stashed away for just this reason kind of occasion so we didn’t need to worry too […]
Read More..>>Oaxacan Black Bean Soup
Another recipe from Rick Bayless’s Mexican Kitchen and one that was always going to be a challenge to photograph well given the ingredient list. This was really simple, almost unbelievably so given the amount of flavour in the final dish, and was just a case of putting all the ingredients into a pot and leaving […]
Read More..>>Mexican Rice
We are continuing to cook Mexican dishes from the Rick Bayless book that we bought recently. This one looked like a fairly quick and easy dish to cook. It turns out that it’s quick and easy if you happen to have some salsa already made, because making that is the longest part of it. The […]
Read More..>>Four Bean Chilli
I won’t go into too much detail about this as we’ve cooked it several times before, albeit with varying varieties of bean (it’s a great way of using up small amounts of beans that are hanging around in the cupboard, just make sure they are of a similar size). What I did do differently this […]
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