pasta with cauliflower, broccoli and blue cheese

I love “bitsa” cooking – just open the fridge and see what needs eating. And last night, what needed eating was some veg and some cheese. This was ridiculously quick and easy. Divide the broccoli and cauliflower into smallish florets. Put them in a pan with a couple of inches of water and salt, bring…

bitsa lunch

We had a bag of salad leaves from Riverford this week. Neither perlmonger nor I are especially fond of salad; it always seems too much effort for little reward. However, we also have three mozzarellae which need eating (bought a tub full at Costco the other week). And so, today’s lunch: 1 packet pancetta cubes,…

bitsa

I’m going away for a few days, and need to use up some bits and pieces. These sorts of suppers are ones that are never repeatable, and I’m looking forward to this one. The rest of the seven year old butter beans are currently boiling. And I have eight chorizo sausages, two cooked chicken breasts,…

clearing up the fridge

For one reason and another, I haven’t done much cooking this week just past – probably because I’ve been coding this site for hours on end! So I looked in the fridge last night, and decided to clear up all the bitsa that was in there. What did I do? there was a jug of…