duck surprise

We had an overnight guest at the weekend, and decided to do a full fry up for Sunday breakfast.  (What’s that you say?  Oh – two packs of lamb mince from the freezer into a moussaka, and a bag of gooseberries similar into a goosegog and almond pudding, since you ask.)  So I retrieved a…

Sunday supper

As previously noted, we picked up the first local asparagus of the year on Saturday; with it, we cooked one of our favourites – asparagus stir-fried with ginger and red chilli. It sounds a terrible thing to do to fresh asparagus, I know, but trust me … it really is glorious. We followed this with…

Sunday breakfast

Home made scones are lovely, but until I came across this recipe I was utterly unsuccessful at scones. But now I’m not. Hurrah! p.s. the dough freezes really well.

deep joy

We nipped (or popped, if you prefer) to North Street this afternoon. Lunch in Cafe Ceiturica (mixed skewers for me, and a rather nice mackerel for Pete (seems like a fair swap)). Then to the deli for crispbread, Green and Black’s choccie and bread flour, and then to the greengrocer. Where they had the first…

weekend 19/20 april

We didn’t set foot out of the house. Made a batch of bananananana muffins on Friday night, and then we ate far too many of them, and both had a nasty sugar hit overnight. Serves us right. Saturday, made soda bread for lunch, which we had with the previously mentioned chickie! soup. Supper was pork…

weekend 12/13 march 08

Lazy, by and large. We found a tub of goose in the back of the freezer that we didn’t know we had (more on that project later), so half of it was stir fried on Thursday, and most the rest was shredded, and turned into a goose and leek rissotto. The balance went in the…

weekend 29/30 mar 08

On Saturday, I set to with a will, and the determination (and the assistance of The Tribe) to complete Project Kitchen. And I won! All pulses and similar enjarred (apart from some odd pastas, where I simply ran out of jars). The the shelves above the cooker – everything taken off, the shelves cleaned with…

balance of Easter weekend

We didn’t do much Sunday – ate a humungous fry up for brunch (lamb and rosemary sossidge, apple-smoked bacon, egg, black pudding, beans, sourdough toast), and then some nice fresh home made scones for supper. And slumped. Monday I decided to go to Ikeal. Astonishingly, perlmonger elected to accompany me. The roads through Bristol were…

did you get the things we needed? (an occasional series)

We sallied off to Nailsea yesterday morning – it’s a nice little town that has most of what you might need for day to day stuff. I wanted to get some more catnip for the Tribe – they love it, but they want it in a herbal form. Sadly Aaron’s Pets didn’t have any, so…

Did you get the things we needed? (an occasional series)

We sallied forth this morning to do a bit of shoppering – something we don’t necessarily enjoy, so we had several places to go. I wouldn’t say the weather was actually nice when we left, but by the time we got to Whiteladies Road, it was pouring. And neither of us had a jacket, a…