We’re going to be away for a couple of days, so I’m Using Stuff Up. Aldi had some smoked salmon at half price last week, so I bought a pack. About 2/3rds went into a pasta dish, and the rest was still in the fridge. As was about half a bag of baby spinach. I…
Month: February 2013
mushroom, spinach and mozzarella wraps
About half a punnet of chestnut mushrooms and some spinach needed eating up, so I deliberately made last night’s cabbage dish with only half a mozzarella ball, and saved the rest for today’s lunch. Finely chopped the mushrooms and set them to cook down slowly in some olive oil. Put the wraps on individual plates,…
cheap food and horse meat
There’s been a huge amount of guff talked in recent days about how people who eat cheap, processed food should “learn to cook”. This article by Jay Rayner says it all, really, for me – there’s more to this than people simply not knowing how to cook. I know how to cook, and I can…
prawn and mushroom wraps
Morrisons had raw prawns (sonny Jim*) on special offer on Tuesday – two packs for £4. The packs weren’t all that big, but one made a stirfry last night with a couple of courgettes, and the other made lunch. Took a pair of tortilla wraps, and put a layer of spinach on each. This was…
a vegetable curry … ish
Well, it was meant to be a vegetable curry, but I’m not convinced it turned out like that. I love pulses and beans, and keep serried ranks of jars in my cupboards, all containing various varieties of same. Last weekend, I thought I’d cook up some kidney beans, so I poured some into a bowl…