There seems to be Quite a Lot of Stilton in the fridge, so yesterday I made a start on it. I had oatcakes with stilton for lunch, accompanied by rather a lot of silverskin onions, and some of the coriander chicken soup (which is a triumph, though I say so myself). Then last night, I rummaged…
Month: January 2013
making good use …
We held a small gathering here the other night, to celebrate a friend’s birthday. We cooked up a slow cooker’s worth of lemony chicken and coriander, and a big pot of dhal to accompany it, and also for the vegans/veggies in the throng. We also served (bought) chapatis. That recipe, incidentally, is a base –…
a quick lunch of leeks and pasta
We’re having a bit of a funny day today, food wise. A friend asked if we could hold a birthday party here for him tonight, and said he would order takeaway pizza. *Takeaway pizza*. I ask you. So I said we’d cook, and indeed I have – a vat of Madhur Jaffrey’s lemony chicken with…
Moooooosewood curry
We had a cauli in the fridge last week. Now, I like cauli, and we make cauli cheese, or a cauli and lentil curry. Sometimes we even just have it as a side veg. But none of them appealed, so I went rummaging through the books, and came up with Satyamma’s cauliflower curry. I didn’t…
blueberry pancakes
Milk going sour, and wizened blueberries? Simple! Beat one egg into 4 oz of plain flour, add ¼ pint of milk (yes, I know the measurements are mixed, but it’s Pete’s recipe), 1½ tsp baking powder, ½ teaspoon cream of tartar, ¼ teaspoon of salt, squirt of lemon juice, two teaspoons of olive…
left over Kofta lamb
There was a pack of lamb Kofta in the fridge, leftover from the festive season (we’ve pretty much worked through it all now, thankfully). Today’s lunch is home made lentil/tomato/veg soup, and a wrap done thus: Place raw spinach leaves on wrap Add 4 pieces of cooked Kofta Dollop with a spoonful of mayo Fold…
christmas pig
Attentive readers will remember that we always have a goose for Christmas. But they’re getting more and more expensive, and there’s not much eating on ’em, so this year we thought we’d have a change. We had a big piece of pork, which I did in a Scandinavian stylee, after I’d seen a recipe in…
breakfast tortilla
(or gorilla, as my spell checker initially suggested) In my ongoing battle to lose weight, one of the things that works for me is a wide variety. I saw the Hairy Bikers do a take on this last week (why did nobody tell me about their diet show?!), so I picked up a pack of…
smoked salmon and pasta
There must be gazillions of recipes for this, but this is what I cooked tonght. if you can even call it cooking, to be honest. serves 2 Put 13og of pasta on to boil While it’s cooking, slice 125g smoked salmon and one red pepper (remove seeds). When the pasta is done, drain it and…