We had a couple of roasted yellow peppers languishing in the fridge in a jar – not enough to do anything substantial with, but needed using up all the same. Working at home, lunches get very samey – usually soup, bread and cheese or cold meat, although I have to be careful with cheese now…
Month: April 2010
veg shopping on Chanterlands Avenue
I know I bang on about the price of food here in Hull, but here’s what I got this afternoon in a greengrocer on Chants Ave: 3 courgettes 2 leeks 1 savoy cabbage 4 sticks English rhubarb (yum!) 1 red and 1 yellow pepper a dozen or so shallots 1 head fennel 3 large oranges…
chickpeas with chicken
We had a load of cold cooked chicken left over from a roast, some rather tired coriander leaves, a wizened yellow pepper, so time for one of our favourites. Roughly chopped two onions, several cloves of garlic and the yellow pepper, and sauteéd them off in some olive oil. Added some chopped chorizo and let…
indian style aubergines and potatoes
I bought a pack of baby aubergines at the weekend – I’m not normally seduced by such things, but they were so pretty … We had about a third of them in the roast veg on Sunday, and I was left with not enough for moussaka, but some. There were also some cold cooked new…
fusion stirfy
We had a simple roast chickie on Sunday, with roast veg. So on Tuesday we had a stir fry, with some cold roast chicken, some button mushrooms, and the remainder of the roast veg. It worked remarkably well!
chickpeas bitsa
We accidentally (as you do) consumed a small fry up while on a 7 mile walk today – this is progress, as normally we’d have gone for the large version, but we did feel we deserved it, especially as I’d already walked 2.5 miles and swum 16 lengths this morning! Anyway, we didn’t want a…