I’ve been a bit “meh” about cooking of late; trying to lose weight leaves me uninspired. On Sunday, we had planned nothing foodwise. Pete had gone for a nap after garden-related exertions, and I went for a rummage in the fridge, to find: one very tired field mushroom half a lemon a cauliflower that definitely…
Tag: rice
lentil dosas
I’ve been wanting to make these ever since I spotted them in one of my bread books, but I’ve never been organised enough to do it – they’re remarkably simple, but you need to start them 32 hours in advance, according to the book. Take 3/4 cup of long grain rice (I used Basmati, as…
asparagus and feta risotto
There are some foods we only eat when they’re in season in the UK, and asparagus is one of them; thus we tend to rather gorge ourselves on it at this time of year. Although we are back on a veg box, we couldn’t resist a big bunch of the glorious green stuff while we…
egg fried rice and bits
using up: cold pot roast beef, spring onions, pepper, cucumber, broccoli I love egg fried rice – we always have it when we have a Chinese takeaway. Not that we’ve had a Chinese takeaway in years, but we always did. I don’t know why I’ve never made it before – partly, I guess, because you…
rice is nice
We eat far more rice than we do potato – it doesn’t need peeling, for a start. We bought a 20kg bag of basmati, and I noted the date so we could see how long it took us to eat through it. And it was 9 months and 3 weeks. There’s only two of us,…