Slow Roast Pork Shoulder
I know, it looks dry doesn’t it? It was a little dry but not quite as bad as the photograph suggests. We didn’t follow a recipe for this and really should have as it didn’t turn out as well as it could have. We slow roasted the pork on top of some vegetables for six […]
Read More..>>Roast Pork Belly
Kerri has been saying for a while that she has been craving pork belly. We did have it at friends last weekend, but still decided to cook it again today. We looked back to last time we’d cooked it, which was more than a year ago! The rub that we used had given it really […]
Read More..>>Chorizo and Butterbean Soup
On the way home from dinner last night, we realised that we didn’t have anything planned to eat this evening. I suggested we soak some butterbeans and find something to do with them today. It was doomed to failure from the start really, I like to plan meals in advance and don’t really work very […]
Read More..>>Chorizo and Beans
When I started cooking this I intended for it to become a soup. I didn’t follow a particular recipe but took inspiration from Jenny Chandler’s “The Food of Northern Spain” and Jonathan’s Chorizo, butterbean and passata stew. The end result was closer to Jonathan’s dish as I left it to reduce right down until it […]
Read More..>>Roast Pork and Crackling
For our last day before some healthy eating begins, we decided on roast pork. Kerri poured boiling water over the skin before roasting it and then rubbed it liberally with salt, resulting in sublimely crisp crackling that didn’t even need to go back into the oven after the pork was done. The meat itself was […]
Read More..>>Pancetta, Butternut and Chestnut Risotto
We bought some chestnuts last week without really knowing what to do with them so I spent a little time looking for recipes online. I found a Jamie Oliver risotto recipe that I liked the sound of but it sounded pretty complicated so we decided to take the basic elements and do our own version. […]
Read More..>>Lentil Ragu
It’s been a busy few days with not a lot of cooking going on and not much time to post. We ate this on Thursday night from the freezer, based on this recipe. There were some changes but I can’t remember what they were now – that will teach me to leave so long between […]
Read More..>>Sausage Casserole
Inevitably, the colder weather has led to lots of talk about warming winter dishes. We’ve been trying to keep it as healthy as possible recently but today I gave in and braved the weather in search of sausages. I found some lovely looking Cumberland sausages at the butcher and decided to give sausage casserole another […]
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