things to do with cold goose

Not that there is much leftover goose in my experience – fifty five quid for the bird, which fed three hungry folk on Christmas Day.  We had the other breast for lunch on Friday, with the leftover red cabbage, and a baked spud, and very nice it was too. Yesterday, Pete stripped off the remaining…

festive fayre

My idea of a good Christmas, food wise, is to cook up a load of stuff before, cook a nice Christmas dinner, then do nothing much for a week 🙂  This year was no exception. I did a gammon in ginger beer and christmas spices (star anise, cinnamon and cloves), glazed with orange juice and…

cranberry, apple and chilli chutney

A friend of mine blogged yesterday that she was making cranberry chutney. “That’s a nice idea”, I thought; I’ve actually never made chutney before, so I asked her for the recipe, and bought some cranberries today. And got Pete to fetch down my preserving pan from the top of the cupboard. Of course, me being…

cabbage and pancetta risotto

As you may recall, we have a bit of a cabbage glut, so I’ve been desperately trying to use them up.  This is what I did on Friday night, and it worked rather well! Sliced a red onion and sautéd it in some olive oil with a packet of pancetta cubes.  While that was cooking,…

sausages!

We are huge fans of sossidge – we buy nice ones whenever we see them, and stash them in the freezer. They’re real comfort food for us, and when we don’t know what to have to supper, the cry of “sossidge” will be heard chez Jordan. And sossidge it was last night – some Merguez…

thai pork stirfry

using up: peppers, basil, mushrooms I bought one of those pots of basil – you know, the ones that last two days then die.  This one is still going strong on the kitchen windowsill several weeks on, but it does look as though it might be starting to flag a bit now.  I love basil…

cabbage, bacon and mozzarella

We seem to have a cabbage glut – two of them in the fridge at the start of the week, which is bad planning. I mandolined half of one on Monday for this week’s soup, so only one and a half to go … There were a few bits (I couldn’t call them rashers, really)…

corned beef hash

Which is not what we intended to eat, but upon opening the fridge I was confronted with a box of cooked brussels sprouts left from Friday. Bubble and squeak was the obvious answer, but it was far too late to defrost sossidge, so improvisation was needed. I boiled up some potatoes, and while they were…

supper with friends

We’re frantically busy at the moment, what with house reorganisation, lots of work, and kittens to attend to. The latter had us inviting four friends round for supper and a KittinFest on Saturday. I didn’t really have time for an elaborate meal, and I knew there was a stack of pork steaks in the freezer,…

weekly meals w/c 8 dec 08

It’s ridiculous – I can’t remember what we ate a week ago.  I’m going to have to write this up every day.  I blame old age. Monday Indian cabbage with rice Tuesday lentil lasagne with spinach (lentil mix taken from the freezer) Wednesday [blank – can’t remember] Thursday indian lentils with mushroom rice Friday chicken…