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 [...]
Posted in Baking, Lunchbox, Main Meals, Recipes, Vegetarian on Feb 15th, 2009
I know I’m not Scottish, but Burns Night is a food event I always look forward to. Unfortunately, I usually tend to go without partaking in the Haggis, unable to find anyone willing to share it with me – this year however Jenny gave in since I promised to get a nice one from our [...]
Posted in Main Meals on Jan 28th, 2009
I stumbled upon an exciting new blog this week – Greedy Gourmet. It’s got a good mix of styles, cooking at a high, but not out of reach level. This was the first out of a few of Michelle’s recipes I tried in this weeks menu – Sweet potato, spinach and mushroom stew. The recipe [...]
Posted in Main Meals, Vegetarian on Dec 18th, 2008
Massaman curry is a dish from Thailand, with a Muslim origin. This was my first go at trying one out for myself, despite the duck version being a favourite of mine at Busaba Eathai. It’s a real hearty, rich warming curry being made up from roast peanuts, cinnamon, cardamom, sugar, tamarind and plenty of coconut [...]
Posted in Main Meals, Vegetarian on Dec 1st, 2008
Cassoulet, for those of you that haven’t tried it is a rich slow cooked stew from southwest France. It’s made up of stewed white beans with a variety of different meats – the exact mixture of which seems always to be under debate. I adapted this version from the one in Hugh’s Meat book. His [...]
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I was so excited this week when we got our first proper cabbage of the season, winter is truly here when the January Kings start appearing, so I had a good look around for a recipe to do it justice and lovingly ripped this off from another food blog. I thought it was worth sharing with [...]
Posted in Lunchbox, Main Meals, Recipes on Nov 21st, 2008
When Alice told me about some Samosas she’d made with leftover filo pastry, that inspired me to have a go. I fancied trying something slightly contemporary that would be good for lunch as well as a side for a main meal. I thought sweet potato would be quite nice so I had a bit of [...]
Posted in Lunchbox, Main Meals on Nov 20th, 2008
With the nights drawing in, I decided we were in need of some good wholesome winter food. I spotted this one on the Waitrose website. I’m a huge fan of Leffe Blonde, but I’d never tried cooking with it before. If you’ve not tasted it before, the beer is sweet, fresh and fruity with a [...]
Posted in Drinks, Main Meals on Nov 19th, 2008
I was given two hot smoked salmon fillets (from Alexandra Palace Farmer’s Market) with which I made a Kedgeree.
Posted in Lunchbox, Main Meals, Recipes on Nov 17th, 2008