venison stew

I found a pound of chopped venison in the freezer, and decided to cook it up for Sunday lunch. I cut two large carrots in batons, and fried them off with a dozen peeled shallots, in olive oil with a splash of maple syrup, using my wonderful decades old Le Creuset cast iron pot.  I…

a tale of freezers

At one point, we had *three* freezers – the one in the big Amana USAnian behemoth in the kitchen, a tall one out in the shed, and a small one under the stairs which was used exclusively for frozen ox cheek, which we used to buy in huge bulk to feed the cats. Then the…

beef with clementines and ginger wine

There was a 3.75lb hunk of silverside in the freezer, and a tub of clementine mush (clementines that have been boiled and liquidised – I normally use them to make a cake with ground almonds). So diced and sautéed two big carrots, a courgette and two sticks of celery, together with a red onion cut…

a fish pie

I found three smoked trout fillets in the freezer, and we had some parsley left from last week’s beef stroganoff.  So I declared it Fish Pie Night. I popped up to the local Co-Op to get some milk, and they had prawns on special offer: 2 packs for £4.  So I availed myself of said…

sweet potato soup redux

It worked really well, the sweet potato soup.  But we were out and about all weekend, so I put the remainder (a litre or so) in the fridge, and of course it went very gloopy. So this morning, I fished it out, added a mugful of lentils and about the soup’s volume in water, together…

planning a sweet potato soup

I have a bag of sweet potatoes in the fridge – lord knows why, we never use more than a couple at a time, but I was surprised by them in the Co-Op. In the freezer, I have a tub of stock leftover from making a coconut chicken curry, and a small tub of butternut…

radish top soup

Not cooking much at the moment, but here’s a recipe from my mate Mym, which I will try when I am ensconsed in my new house. Radish Top Soup made this for lunch today v nice, and uses an often thrown away ingredient. 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil 1 Large Shallot, finely chopped 2 Cups Radish…