beef in ginger and orange

How to turn 500g of stewing beef into six portions? Add 100g of bacon bits, a stack of butter (lima) beans, and a load of veg, thus. I used shallots in this – if you’re going to do this, they are much easier to peel if you soak them in boiling water for 10 minutes, and…

Guinness soda bread

I saw this – with apple and cheese – on a Hugh Fearnley-Eatsisall programme a couple of weeks ago, and was so intrigued that I bought a couple of bottles of Guinness to try it. The second was destined for a beef stew, but more on that story later. We eat a lot of soda…

a mountain of kebab

We had a takeaway on Wednesday; our normal kebab place (well, I say normal – we’ve used it twice in a year 🙂 appears to have closed down, and never told us, which seems quite rude. So we looked on that internet, and discovered one not too far away called Iggy’s Place, which seems quite…