a timed supper

  As my regular reader will know, Tuesday night is pasta night. I just open the fridge and concoct something from its contents. For people who don’t have time to cook, here’s a 15-20 minute supper. Bear in mind I have an ceramic hob, so you can skip the “put the rings on” bit if…

yet another risotto

Actually, that’s unfair, because we haven’t had a risotto in ages. But we did last night. We bought a pack of chicken thighs in Aldi last week. Pete manfully skinned and filleted them on Saturday, and they’ve been stowed in the freezer (yes, for this was just *before* PumpkinGate) for stir fries or whatever; the…

red pepper sauce

So – 2/3rds of a huge jar of roasted red peppers. Opened. What to do? Finely chopped an onion and about three cloves of garlic, and fried them off in olive oil, then added a slug of red wine and deglazed the pan. Sliced up the peppers and threw them in till they were warmed…

leeks and pasta

We decided last night that, come what may, we should make an inroad into the remaining Christmas pud, so a  light supper was called for. I made it to the greengrocer yesterday, so we were stocked with veg. So, trimmed a leek and cut it lengthways, then cut into thin slices. Set to cook off…

leek, spinach and goat cheese flan

Two fat leeks, a bit wrinkled, looked accusingly at me every time I opened the fridge. There was also about 1/4 of a bag spinach left, and some rather elderly eggs. I trimmed and washed the leeks, and sliced them up, then sauted slowly in olive oil and butter; threw in some fresh thyme part…

pork and beans

I have a constant and ongoing battle with my freezer. I used at one point to have three freezers – the one in our USAnian fridge, a 3/4 height one out in the shed, and an under-counter sized one that lived under the stairs, and was entirely filled with minced oxcheek, which we bought in…

reactive entertaining

Last night’s supper was already planned, insofar as I knew we needed to use up some of the veg in the fridge, and we’d been eating rice for a few days, so it was time for pasta for a change. I chopped up a fat leek, a red romano pepper, and several cloves of garlic,…

pork with leek and peppers

The great freezer transfer disgorged a box of pork fillets, so I though I’d cook one last night. I cut it into thin strips, and fried it up in some olive oil, then set it aside.  Then into the pan went a big knob of butter, a few sliced mushrooms, a yellow pepper deseeded and…

leeks with parma ham

I found an unopened packet of parma ham slices in the fridge left from the festering season. It was a couple of weeks past its sell by date, but hey – it’s vacuum packed, it’s preserved …

This is a take on a Jamie Oliver recipe – I missed out the wine, and some of the butter. Fed two hungry people …

potato and leek bake

[Sorry – no photo] Using up: elderly spuds, some cream Scrubbed potatoes (we never bother with peeling) and sliced very thinly.  There was a bit less than we hoped for because one spud had gone over, unfortunately. Washed one leek – a handy tip from Jamie Oliver is to slice the leek in half lengthwise…