a blast from the past

I went to a jumble sale in the village on Saturday and, as usual, made a beeline for the book stall.  I picked up three paperbacks, and then … then … I saw it. A cookery book that was my absolute bible when I was first married, and which has been out of print for…

cauliflower and potato, indian style

using up: cauliflower. This didn’t go quite to plan, but turned out utterly delicious.  I don’t suppose we’ll ever be able to recreate it, though. I set a pan of potatoes to parboil, intending to deep fry them later, and put a cut up cauli in the steamer on top.  Pete did Indian spices –…

this week's soup w/c 24 nov 08

I forgot to tell you about last week’s soup, but it wasn’t very exciting, and involved grated cabbage, so we’ll move on. I cooked a gammon in coke at the back end of last week (well, half a gammon, to be precise; the other half is in the freezer).  In fact, it was a gammon…

last week's meals w/c 17 nov 08

Monday indian cabbage with basmati Tuesday veg tagine from the freezer, with couscous Wednesday cauliflower cheese and roast potatoes Thursday mushroom stroganoff and chips Friday lentil lasagne, because we fancied comfort food Saturday cod, prawn and fennel pie, with broccoli (like this, but without the spinach) – a tub of filling has gone in the…

mushroom stroganoff

[sorry – took photo with iPhone and it didn’t come out well] Using up: half a carton of double cream, some elderly mushrooms I was going to do a mushroom sauce for tagliatelle, and then inspiration struck!  I sent Pete out to see if there was any parsley left in the herb tubs while it…

breakfast today

We were bored with porridge, we had four black bananas, and some milk that needed using up, and so … I whipped up a double batch of my tried and trusty banana muffin recipe – I was a bit lazy, and put everything in the Magimix rather than do it separately.  Also I left out…

this week's meals w/c 10 nov 08

Monday cabbage and chicken risotto Tuesday tub of Indian cauliflower and tomato from the freezer, with some potatoes fried in Indian spices to accompany it Wednesday stir fried sprouts and peanuts Thursday corned beef hash Friday stir fry, with pork, mushrooms and yellow pepper Saturday courgette and green pepper pasta bake Sunday mixed game casserole

mixed game casserole

We went down to Nailsea yesterday, and the farmers’ market was on.  We came home with four beautiful faggots, and a pack of venison sausages, which have gone in the freezer.  And a loaf of stilton and walnut bread, which we had with some smoked buffalo cheese we also got there, and the remainder toasted…

corned beef hash

Having tackled some of the sprout overload on Wednesday night, we looked at the 1.5 cabbages in the fridge yesterday and thought “we really should eat some of that”. So – cut up a couple of biggish spuds into smallish chunks, and put them in the bottom half of the steamer to boil.  Shredded not…

this week's soup 10 nov 08

I am remiss in telling you about this, and indeed I’m sure you don’t care.  I record them for myself, really 🙂 I used the stock from the very last of the roast chicken.  Food processed one parsnip, one leek, four carrots, half a swede into mulch, hurled it in the soup pan, cooked down…