Beef and Two Bean Chilli
As UK readers will know, most of London had a Snow Day today. The last time I remember such a day I was eight and, running low on food supplies, we had to trudge to the top of the road to the local shop. It took us two hours to walk what would normally take […]
Read More..>>Scottage Pie – Haggis in a Cottage Pie
It is Burns Night tomorrow, but we are otherwise occupied, so we had to cook haggis tonight. We tried a twist on the idea though – doing it in a cottage pie style, with the haggis filling underneath and mashed tatties and neeps (i.e. potatoes and swede) on top. We chopped up a couple of […]
Read More..>>Christmas Pudding Ice Cream Revisited
When doing some clearing out of our rather small freezer compartment, we found the leftovers of the Christmas pudding ice cream that we had made for our pre-Christmas dinner. We left it out for a bit to soften and then had some. It was still good and it struck me again just how much it […]
Read More..>>Roast Beef
We’d talked about having roast beef on New Year’s Day but settled on chicken instead, neither of us had been able to get the idea of beef out of our heads though so decided to have it today. Stephen went sale shopping today so while he was out I started the preparation. I like to […]
Read More..>>Roasted Cobnut Salad
When staying in Kent with Kerri’s mum over Christmas, we picked up some cobnuts at a market in Canterbury. I’m sure that most people reading this know what cobnuts are, but for those that don’t, they are a type of hazelnut that has traditionally been grown in Kent over the past few centuries. Last year […]
Read More..>>Christmas Dinner!
For Christmas dinner, we had a family dinner with Kerri’s mum and her brother and his family, who kindly allowed us to take over their kitchen to cook it. We had turkey of course, as is obvious from the picture below. When we collected the turkey from the butcher (a free range bronze turkey from […]
Read More..>>Vacherin
For Christmas Eve, we had some nibbles, including a rather delicious Vacherin Mont d’Or. For those of you who don’t know (and can’t be bothered to click the link :-)), Vacherin is a seasonal French (or Swiss) cheese that, when ripe, has a deliciously gooey centre and a smooth, creamy, but rich and complex taste. […]
Read More..>>Goose Pie
Having half a goose left after our pre-Christmas dinner yesterday, we embarked on a goose pie project. Kerri had seen Jamie cooking a turkey and leek pie, which served as partial inspiration. We only had one leek though, so we added an onion. And we didn’t have creme fraiche, so we used chicken stock. And […]
Read More..>>Pre-Christmas Dinner – Roast Goose
It’s become something of a tradition (if twice counts as a tradition – a tradition in the making maybe) for me and Kerri to have a pre-Christmas dinner with my sister and her husband shortly before we disappear off elsewhere for Christmas itself. Last year we had roast salmon with salsa verde; this year we […]
Read More..>>Carrot Soup
One of my favourite light lunches is a bowl of soup with a slice of buttered toast. When I was a kid, I used to eat gallons of soup whenever my mum made it; I think she despaired of it a bit. As we had carrots in our vegetable box but didn’t have any plans […]
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