Quite a few years ago I spent some time living in Uganda. One of our favourite treats at weekends (besides listening to Rick D’s American Top 40) was going out for a meal at one of the local Ethiopian restaurants. There were only 2 options on the menu – vegetarian or meat. After we’d washed [...]
Posted in Main Meals, Vegetarian on Jan 16th, 2010
During our recent trip to Lyme Regis, we found loads of great places to buy local produce and enjoy a nice bite to eat (more info in my previous Lyme Regis Post). However, I don’t think anything compares to fresh food which you’ve grown, caught or harvested for yourself. I particularly love oily fish on [...]
Posted in Hints + Tips, Main Meals on Jul 29th, 2009
A couple of weekends ago, I had a weekend morning with nothing much to do but wait for the Cricket or Rugby to start. I ended up watching Saturday Kitchen, which we’ve not done in ages. On the show they showed a recipe from Rick Stein’s Food Heroes series which caught my eye. Mr Stein [...]
Posted in Books, Hints + Tips, Main Meals, Restaurants, Cafes and Pubs on Jun 16th, 2009
May’s In the Bag was hosted by Real Epicurean and consisted of Broccoli and Blue Cheese. Over the past few weeks we’ve been getting some gorgeous Purple Sprouting Broccoli from our veg box which seemed perfect for my attempt. I really wanted to try and challenge myself to come up with something less obvious again. [...]
Posted in Baking, Main Meals, Vegetarian on May 12th, 2009
We held a dinner party for six people over the Easter weekend and were keen to plan a menu which could be prepared completely in advance and require only heating, plating a serving on the night. Sundried Tomato, Spinach & Feta Filo Pastry Pie —— Vegetable Mousakka with Greek Salad, accompanied with Black Olive & Rosemary [...]
Posted in Baking, Books, Food Heros, Main Meals, Recipes, Reviews, Vegetarian on May 4th, 2009
Chilli Con Carne is one of my favourite dishes, not only because it’s so hearty but also because it’s fun to cook and there are lots of different ways of cooking and serving it. I rarely use the same recipe twice but I’ve started getting a feel for what works well, so this more like [...]
Posted in Drinks, Main Meals on Apr 14th, 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
The idea of having challenges to come up with recipes with a set of ingredients was something Paul had been thinking about since we started the blog. I noticed recently that A Slice of Cherry Pie and Real Epicurean run such a competition, In the Bag. For March, the ingredients were Leeks, Eggs and Cheese. [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Main Meals, Vegetarian on Apr 3rd, 2009
This is a family recipe my mum made up, one I grew up with which would always be a special treat. My family are huge seafood fans, especially crab. You need whole crabs so we usually only eat this when we can get a fresh supply. On our last visit home mum prepared it for [...]
Posted in Main Meals on Mar 17th, 2009
Another Sunday, another Roast. Last Tuesday I woke up with the idea of making a very slow roasted joint of lamb marinaded in yoghurt, mint and garlic. By Friday though, unable to find any similar recipes I decided to make something up. Inspired by the Lamb Mechoui I made a few weeks ago, the roast [...]
Posted in Main Meals on Mar 3rd, 2009