Into a bowl went: 1 can chickpeas 1 can tuna in sunflower oil 1 chopped sweet red pepper 3 chopped spring onions 6 or so chopped radishes some cress lime juice, mayonnaise, tamari Mixed it all up, decanted into two bowls, ate with a wheat tortilla – made a lovely change.
Month: April 2009
muesli flapjacks
I wanted to make a cereal bar – something that Pete could take with him cycling, and I could eat after swimming, for an energy hit. They’re so ridiculous expensive to buy, and we have muesli sitting in the cupboard uneaten. I googled a bit, and came up with this: I soaked the contents of…
cabbage in coconut
This works really well with purple sprouting broccoli, or spring greens, and is delicious. I’d never actually made it with cabbage before, but nothing ventured, etc. It was a small hispi cabbage, and I cored out all the thick stem, and shredded it up. Blanched it in boiling water for a couple of minutes, then…
when the off licence gives you rhubarb …
We have a wonderful off licence in our village – we go in there and order wine, they deliver it, we give them a cheque. Works beautifully. I popped in there last week, and they asked where P was – “planting a rhubarb crown”, I said. Which he was. At which point, they invited us…
stir fried asparagus
Now, you may thinks this an Abomination, but trust me – it’s gorgeous. We only eat English asparagus, as we feel the imported upstart has no flavour, so we tend to gorge on the stuff when it’s in season. This was the first bunch of 2009, and this is one of our favourite things to…
duck and fennel risotto
As my regular reader will know, we eat a lot of risotto, but curiously I haven’t made one for ages. We roasted a duck over the Easter weekend, and when I boiled up the carcass for stock, quite a lot of meat came off. Meals for the next few days had been sort of planned,…
I love my slow cooker, I do …
It’s currently turning a duck carcass into stock, without me having to rush down every now and again and check the heat, check it’s not boiling over, etc. And then there will be Duck Soup for lunch at the weekend. Or possibly a Night at the Opera, or Even a day at the Races.
pork with leek and peppers
The great freezer transfer disgorged a box of pork fillets, so I though I’d cook one last night. I cut it into thin strips, and fried it up in some olive oil, then set it aside. Then into the pan went a big knob of butter, a few sliced mushrooms, a yellow pepper deseeded and…
three pig stew
Or, I suppose, a sort of goulash 🙂 The transfer of contents from one freezer to another has brought forth some nice things. There’s a whole Gressingham duck defrosting for today’s Easter feast, and there was also a couple of nice pieces of belly pork, and some uncooked chorizo sausages. I skinned a piece of…
a pound of mince? Meatballs!
As mentioned, we had a pound of mince to use up, as it wouldn’t fit into the new freezer regime. I minced some garlic and a shallot, and chopped some fenugreek leaves small, while Pete ground spices (black cumin, lots of coriander seeds, turmeric, cinnamon, cardamon, allspice, black pepper), and made that lot into meatballs…