When we first had the idea of doing a food blog, my main goal was to document some ideas for exciting lunchtime foods. As Jenny will attest, I’m quite a fussy eater – not in the usual way of not eating exotic foods, rather for my reluctance to eat boring food. For me lunchtime is [...]
Posted in Food on the Go, Lunchbox, Vegetarian on Apr 30th, 2009
This recipe is one I adapted. I stumbled upon the original when we were low on ingredients and short of time. I did an online search for the random leftovers we had to see if anyone had done any recipes with them, it came up with a Yahoo Answers page with some ideas with similar [...]
Posted in Lunchbox, Main Meals, Recipes on Apr 5th, 2009
Recently we decided to sort through our mountain of cookbooks to separate the wheat from the chaff and provide us with a bit more space. Whilst going through this we’ve rediscovered some of our more sporadically used books. Flicking through The African Kitchen by Josie Stow and Jan Baldwin I spotted an exciting looking alternative [...]
Posted in Lunchbox, Main Meals on Feb 18th, 2009
More adventures in baking with Andrew Whitley’s Bread Matters book. This time I tried out some Italian pie technology (or is it pizza technology?). The calzoni were really fun to make and tasty too.
You need:
* 160g of basic savoury bread sponge – there’s plenty of recipes for this on the web.
* 120g plain [...]
Posted in Baking, Lunchbox, Main Meals, Recipes, Vegetarian on Feb 15th, 2009
I’m not entirely sure if this is technically a pizza or a tart. It’s was a pretty nice lunchtime snack though. Firstly, cook and mash 4oz potato, let it cool. In a pan melt some butter and fry a sliced onion until golden. Let it cool. Rub 3oz butter into 5oz plain flour. Once you’ve [...]
Posted in Baking, Food on the Go, Lunchbox on Feb 14th, 2009
A while ago now, whilst visiting some of the local asian shops I found a jar of Date Syrup. Being quite into Dates I decided to buy some without anything particular in mind to use it for. It’s sat at the back of our cupboards for a few months now, partly because I keep forgetting [...]
Posted in Baking, Desserts, Lunchbox, Vegetarian on Feb 13th, 2009
This recipe is a king of thrift and simplicity. Quite often if we’re making a quick meal utilising some time saving pie technology (shop bought pastry) we end up with a surplus of puff or shortcrust. We’ve started trying to use it up by making lunch time snacks.
There really wasn’t much to it – roll [...]
Posted in Baking, Food on the Go, Lunchbox on Feb 9th, 2009
Greedy Gourmet recipe of the week #2 – Goat’s Cheese, Sundried Tomato and Walnut Panino. The original recipe used a standard loaf but I thought I’d try out the new panino grill from my Grandma with some Ciabatta. I thought just Goat’s Cheese by itself would be too salty so I added in a whole [...]
Posted in Food on the Go, Lunchbox, Vegetarian on Dec 18th, 2008
This was my first attempt at being festive so far this year. Our vegbox has been quite heavily populated pears lately (which is no bad thing), so this recipe seemed a good opportunity to use them for something other than eating by themselves. I found the recipe whilst browsing for some HFW ideas on the [...]
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Not to be confused with the closely related Slavic Pirogis, Russian Pirozhkis have more in common with English pastys. Pirozhkis are generally made with leaven bread and are either baked or fried. They tend to be about half the size of a standard pasty. Pirogis (from my little knowledge) tend to be more like dumplings, [...]
Posted in Baking, Lunchbox, Vegetarian on Dec 3rd, 2008