kudos to Sainsburys

We normally buy our bacon from the inestimable T L Normans on Princes Ave (I have enthused about them many a time), but we were in the Sainsburys mini supermarket on Spring Bank the other Saturday afternoon on our way home (after Normans had shut), and spotted bacon, and thought “ooooh … bacon”, as you…

up to my elbows in vegetables, and some venison

  We seemed a bit overrun with veg, for some reason, so something had to be done. So into the medium slow cooker, diced small, went: 2 leeks 4 carrots ½ swede 2 (manky) courgettes They were cooked off with a little olive oil, on a low setting, and made two big tubs of veg…

meatballs and tomato sauce

The mystery butcher’s bag in the freezer turned out to contain about 150g of sausagemeat, clearly bought for sossidge rolls for the festering season. Hmm … what to do? I added some chopped mix herbs to the meat, and mixed it all together. Into the slow cooker went onions, garlic, a diced courgette and some…

home made pizza

For some reason, we hardly ever have pizza, and I’m not sure we’ve ever made it. So we decided to remedy that on Saturday. There was a small tub of tomato purée in the freezer, and some pork and duck stuffing balls (from Waitrose, no less!), and it seemed a good way to deal with them….

an inventory of the freezer

We decided to do a *long* overdue audit of the freezer this morning. And here are the results: home made baked beans x 1 Italian meatballs small x 1 beef, beans, red wine x 2 cauliflower and lentils x 1 Moroccan meatballs small x 1 chicken tagine x 2 Moroccan meatballs medium x 1 chilli…