Team Waste cooking

Every year, a whole bunch of us gather at a mate’s place just outside Carmarthen, and spend a few days drinking and talking (mostly) bollox.  It’s been traditionally held over the August Bank Holiday, but Geoff decided to give it a try in May this year, and it worked – I have returned sunburned and…

mini pizzas

Our hostess at the weekend did these for Saturday lunch – so simple, and utterly delicious. Take pitta bread, spread with tomato paste, cover with grated mozarella and bake in the oven. I’d brought a pot of basil back from the supermarket that morning, so some of that was chopped and added, and you could…

a cross between lasagne and moussaka (with lentils)

We had spinach to use up, and we’d normally make a lasagne or a moussaka. But there was no bolognese sauce in the freezer (and didn’t have any mushrooms left), and no aubergine.  What to do? Well, I did a hybrid.  It doesn’t sound great, I admit, but trust me – it was utterly lovely….

asparagus egg-fried rice

We had friends over for Eurovision on Saturday – we cooked up an Indian feast: beef in coconut and black masala, split moong dhal, cucumber/carrot/red onion raita.  There was a stack of rice left over, and a bunch of asparagus to eat. Trimmed the woody bits off the asparagus, cut the stalks into thirds, and…

this week's veg box

From Box Bush Farm, £15 bought us: 1 bag potatoes 1 bag carrots 1 bag rather nice pale green beans 1 bag small chestnut-y mushrooms 1 bag rocket 1 lettuce 1 bag spinach 2 small cabbages 1 bunch asparagus apples, oranges, bunch of bananas Difficult week, as we have people round for Eurovision tonight (cooking…

chicken soup

As I mentioned, there was a bit of a soup crisis yesterday, occasioning me to fetch the chicken carcass out of the freezer and bung it in the slow cooker to make stock. This morning, Pete nobly stripped the meat off it, and there was enough for at least one more meal! I put the…

chicken pie

With what I thought was the last of the chickie!, we made a pie. Roughly chopped an onion, and fried it off with a pack of pancetta cubes in some olive oil.  Added some of the carrot/swede combo that I cooked on Sunday, some chopped sage from the herb garden, and some chopped chicken, and…

woe …

I forgot to put the soup in the fridge on Friday (which I normally do, as we don’t normally eat it at the weekend). Given the temperature, and remembering that both P and I were quite ill after eating some shoop that had gone over, we have reluctantly poured it into the compost bin. Thankfully,…

weekend cooking

On Saturday morning, I peeled and diced the two swedes from the veg box, and several carrots, and set them to boil with a load of potatoes. There was some massala left from the other day, so 1/3 of the potatoes were fried until crispy in some groundnut oil, then added to the massala sauce…

fennel and chickie! risotto

We had a lovely free range roast chickie! on Bank Holiday Monday, which has pretty much dominated our food this week. Last night – risotto. As I always say, 5oz risotto rice and 1pint of liquid feeds two hungrish folk. The liquid last night was a mix of lemon juice, rice wine and the indispensable…