Here’s one I made up. Partly because I couldn’t find any recipes with the ingredients I wanted to use, and then we missed several others when we went shopping. I had intended this to be a quick dish, using pre-made shortcrust pastry but since they didn’t have any and we had a shortage of eggs [...]
Posted in Lunchbox, Vegetarian on Nov 22nd, 2008
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
My first attempt at soda bread and I’m quite proud of it – it tasted almost as good as Matt’s picture makes it look! This was from a book called Diabetic Cooking by Bridget Jones. So simple to make, no yeast or leaving it to rise or anything – just flour, baking soda and buttermilk. [...]
Provided with leftover ham from roast gammon, I set about assembling a suitable lunchtime feast. To accompany the ham I went for apple, goats cheese and poached eggs. I’ve always had issues with poached eggs. I’ve tried numerous techniques including Delia’s frying pan method and Hugh’s vortex attempt. I’ve experimented with varying room temperature, egg [...]
Posted in Hints + Tips, Lunchbox, Recipes on Nov 5th, 2008
Mmmmm pie. This was a recipe by the mighty Hugh (River Cottage Meat Book) for a stew but he said you could make it into a pie. So I did. It was good. I used ready to roll puff pastry, which was really easy. The stew is just beef, bacon, whole baby onions, and guinness. [...]
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