this week's meals w/c 26 oct 08

I’m going to start listing what we eat each week for our main meal, mostly for my own reference. But you might enjoy it too! Monday Beef with borlotti beans (out of the freezer), potato and swede mashed together, steamed Savoy cabbage Tuesday friend over for quick supper before we all went to see Jeremy…

butternut squash – a primer

A very useful post from Fiona at Frugal Cooking, on how to stretch a butternut squash into several meals. I think a lot of people don’t really know what to do with one of these, and they’re a wonderful veg!

this week's soup w/c 25 oct 08

One parsnip, half a swede (rest was mashed up with potato to go with last night’s stew), three carrots, one leek. All cut into small dice, then sautéd with some oil to cook them down a bit. Added a couple of litres of cold water, a handful of barley, salt and black pepper, and some…

fish and broccoli pie

using up: a head of broccoli, some smoked trout A while back when we were in Costco, we were offered a sample of hot smoked trout.  It was delicious; like sheep, we bought a bag, and I wrapped each fillet separately and put it in the freezer.  I completely forgot about it until I was…

this week's soup

This one is a real mongrel.  You’ve probably heard of Nigella Lawson’s gammon cooked in coke – it’s utterly delicious, and I make it often (we’re big fans of buying a large gammon and having it for our lunches during the week). Rummaging in the shed last weekend, we found 12 bottles of ginger beer…

chicken and apricot tagine

using up: some chicken thighs, peppers in green, red and yellow We needed to do some cooking for the freezer, so we looked at the ingredient stocks to see what we had.  And what we had was a big bag of chicken thighs in the outside freezer, and thus a chicken tagine was born. On…

an afternoon in the kitchen

I’ve not written much recently; not because we’re not cooking – we are! But we’re not doing anything particularly new, and I’m sure my reader doesn’t want to read repeats 🙂 We spent the afternoon in the kitchen yesterday, turning 1.5 kg or so of chicken thighs into some freezer meals, and making this week’s…

beef, orange and ginger casserole

Not reactive as such, but worth recording.  This recipe came to me originally on a Waitrose card – I enhance and improve it every time I make it.  This was about 1.25 – 1.5kg of good quality stewing steak, which was turned into 10 generous portions (4 x 2 servings in boxes for the freezer,…

this week's soup

using up: last week’s soup(!), some chicken The photo was the start – the jug on the left contains the remains of last week’s soup; a starter, if you will.  The jug on the right contains the water I cooked the broccoli in for Friday night’s stir fry.  The chicken is the remains of a…