sprout stirfry!

Like a lot of people, we found ourselves eating up all sorts of bits and pieces after Christmas. We bought sprouts onnastalk for our festive dinner of roast goose, cooked a load up for the meal and subsequent bubble ‘n’ squeak, and then … forgot all about them. I’d stashed the stalk in the log…

courgette and spring green stir fry

We bought *loads* of veg at the weekend – trying to lose weight and keep carbs under control (yay! 4lbs lost last week!). We also bought some rhubarb – well, you have to when it is local, don’t you?  The threat of a rhubarb crumble (albeit one made with brown flour and porage oats) meant…

asparagus and cauliflower stir fry

Trying hard to do different things for lunch at the moment, and here’s today’s effort. In the fridge lurked a smallish bunch of asparagus, and about 1/4 of a small cauliflower. Pete finely chopped a shallot, some garlic, a red chilli and some ginger, and cut the cauli into little bits, including the stalk. We…

veggie stir fry

We’ve been away camping with a bunch of friends for a few days, so I bought some of those handy little jars of Stuff – garlic, ginger, lemon grass, chili – all ready to be spooned into the wok. So useful, but I always feel guilty! But I brought most of the contents back, and…

fusion stirfy

We had a simple roast chickie on Sunday, with roast veg. So on Tuesday we had a stir fry, with some cold roast chicken, some button mushrooms, and the remainder of the roast veg.  It worked remarkably well!

goose stir fry

We got three tubs full of goose meat into the freezer leftover from this year’s festive bird, and decided to stir fry the contents of one tonight.  We had no ginger or chillis in the house, astonishingly, so trudged out in the snow to obtain some, and had a lovely walk around Pearson Park in…

stir fried chard

lunch (before), originally uploaded by ramtops. We are overrun with green leafy stuff at the moment – there was a bag of Swiss chard left from last week, and this morning the veg box brought a pointy cabbage, a bag of spinach and some chinese leaves. Something had to be done. So for lunch, we…

cucumber stir fry

I’m always looking out for things to eat for lunch that aren’t “crackers, cheese and cold meat”, especially at this time of year when soup is off the menu. I found 1 1/2 rather tired cucumbers in the veg drawer, which is odd, as we normally demolish them quite quickly.  They’re only courgettes in another…

stir fried asparagus

Now, you may thinks this an Abomination, but trust me – it’s gorgeous. We only eat English asparagus, as we feel the imported upstart has no flavour, so we tend to gorge on the stuff when it’s in season. This was the first bunch of 2009, and this is one of our favourite things to…

chicken stir fry

Using up: spring onions, red pepper, the last bit of courgette, half a lemon The thing about a stir fry is you can lob pretty much anything in it, but you need to have it all ready before you start. So, as you may see, I chopped four spring onions, a red pepper, a small…