Success with Soup!
I can make soup! So long as I follow the recipe and don’t omit high-calorie ingredients like cream or mascarpone then a soup-shaped future is within my grasp. This is a Jamie Oliver recipe, from Return of the Naked Chef. Old skool. Potato and Jerusalem Artichoke Soup with Thyme, Mascarpone and Hazelnuts (he’s concise isn’t […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken with Potato and Celeriac Rosti
Stephen’s mum was here for dinner last night and since it was the last evening before she returned home to South Africa, we opted for a traditional roast chicken. I was a bit disorientated while cooking though (due to yet another visit to the dentist) and forgot about the roast potatoes. I’d been thinking about […]
Read More..>>Pheasant Pie
I’m not sure I should be admitting to this (since I lambast my poor mother every time I go home and find long forgotten ingredients at the top of her cavernous cupboards that are so out of date the packaging looks like it belongs in a brand museum) but I’ve had a roll of filo […]
Read More..>>Pheasant Casserole
Stephen spent the day touring London with his visiting mother on Saturday but, with food never very far from his mind, he conveniently scheduled a trip to Borough Market for the way home. We had briefly discussed what to eat but hadn’t made any firm plans so rifling through the bags when he returned home […]
Read More..>>Haggis
After half our haggis was put to good use in our sausage rolls, we used the rest for traditional haggis with neeps and tatties. While this was good (although it doesn’t look that interesting) we both wished we had just made more sausage rolls instead.
Read More..>>Haggis Sausage Rolls
Last year, we made Scottage Pie, using haggis as the filling. It was a partial success but the inside (which was purely haggis) was a little too dry and dense. This year, we thought about doing the same again but combining the haggis with some kind of mince. Somewhere along the way, this idea transformed […]
Read More..>>Butternut Squash Soup
We had a butternut squash at work last week that looked a bit ugly on the outside and was rejected by our customers so I bought it, knowing that the inside would be fine. I must be a glutton for punishment since I decided to turn it in to soup but, in order to minimise […]
Read More..>>Celeriac and Potato Soup
This was the ‘soup of the day’ at work yesterday and was perfect at warming me up on my lunch break. I asked the chef how he made it and it sounded so simple that I thought I would try to recreate it at home today. Given my past history with soup, I should have […]
Read More..>>Roast Rib of Beef
Like most people, tomorrow we go back to work (I actually start a new job) after the Christmas and New Year Holiday. As a final fling before the inevitable new-year guilt kicks in, we chose a rib of beef for lunch today, served with roast potatoes, roast parsnips, Yorkshire pudding and vegetables. We followed Hugh […]
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 […]
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