I’ve been meaning to post this for about a month so it’s a bit out of season now, but it was so good I had to put it up. I decided to give mince pies a miss this year (although Belle’s were very tempting!), and have a go at some stollen from a recipe in [...]
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
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 [...]
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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
Jenny recently got given a new cook by Alice for her birthday – Bread Matters by Andrew Whitley. The book’s approach is to rejuvenate the British public’s view on Bread, showing how real bread is made and the flaws in current bread practice. Since Jenny had made a tasty Onion soup for our lunch I [...]
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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In these times of economic woe, I decided to avoid the shop bought ‘luxury’ Christmas pud and make my own based on a recipe by the multi-michelin starred Gordon Ramsay. The recipe was from BBC Olive Magazine. The recipe was incredibly simple and can be summarised in a Ramsay-esque way as ‘…mix ingredients…pudding bowl…steam…done’. As I struggled [...]
Only one month to go! This weekend we had a bit of a mad Christmas baking session, we made quince mince pies, ginger and pineapple Christmas cake and the biggest Christmas pudding I’ve ever seen! The recipe for the mince pies is below and Paul will add the recipes for the other two later. Quince [...]
Posted in Baking, Recipes, Vegetarian on Nov 25th, 2008