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..>>Really Good Roast Pork
It was Kerri’s birthday today, which was very exciting. We went out to Chez Bruce last night and had a wonderful dinner there, so decided to stay at home today and cook something ourselves. Roast pork it was, which we bought from a local butcher, Parsons Nose, which we were hoping would be open on […]
Read More..>>Christmas Lunch 2009
With just three of us for Christmas lunch, it seemed silly to eat something as large as a turkey so we opted for chicken instead. Thinking it would be easy to find, we didn’t order one which meant Stephen scouring the supermarket shelves on Christmas Eve. He eventually tracked this down in Waitrose which meant […]
Read More..>>Cumberland Sausage
We’ve had this in the freezer since our visit to Cumbria at the end of the summer. Every time we considered eating it, we realised it was just too big for the two of us so we took it to my mum’s and ate it with her instead. This wasn’t as soft and melty as […]
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..>>Spaghetti with Cabbage and Bacon
Another attempt to use up the cabbage mountain cobbled together from various recipes and suggestions I found online. It was very simple and tasted good but could have used a lot more cabbage. Not really a recipe but fry off the bacon until the fat has rendered and transfer to a plate. Drain some of […]
Read More..>>Sausages and Mashed Potatoes
There wasn’t much discussion over what to eat for dinner tonight: for us, bonfire night = sausages and mashed potatoes. We did consider cooking the Cumberland sausage we brought back from our recent trip but that really needs to be cooked in the oven and ours is currently broken. So, ordinary pork sausages cooked under […]
Read More..>>Mexican Bean Stew
We’ve been talking a lot about Mexican food lately and while we’re waiting for some new books on the subject to arrive, we’ve been searching online to find recipes that appeal. We’ve both struggled with authenticity though and given there is no information available on the origins of this dish, it’s probably safest to assume […]
Read More..>>Five Courses for Eight People
Last Saturday, Kerri and I cooked dinner for some friends; there were eight of us in total. We eventually came up with a five-course menu. Which could be called seven courses if you counted nuts and a little shot of watercress soup that we served between the starter and main course. At some point we […]
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