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Monday 1.01 |
Lunch: Spag with leftover mushrooms We start the New Year as we mean to go on. Ride ourselves into the ground, then stuff ourselves with pasta and whatever we can find in the fridge Dinner: Borscht Duck breasts, mango, ginger-stock-red wine sauce; pak choi; rosti potatoes |
Tuesday 2.01 |
Gratin of parsnips with stilton and fried walnuts Puy lentils, red lentils; fennel slices, ovendried tomatoes; sourdough |
Wednesday 3.01 |
Borscht Salad with goose breast, bacon, mango; sourdough I used raspberry vinegar in the salad dressing. Nice |
Thursday 4.01 |
Steak and Kidney, peas, potato and celeriac mash Pear, chestnuts, toasted gingerbread, preserved ginger, ginger wine, cream |
Friday 5.01 |
Ate out |
Saturday 6.01 |
Lunch: Pasta with onions, bacon, fennel and kalonji seed, chilli, tomato purée, crème fraîche Dinner: Confit of duck, Denhay sausage, flageolets; lettuce, baguette Quince and cream |
Sunday 7.01 |
Lunch: Potato and sweetcorn pancakes; tomato-chilli-wildboar saugae sauce, crème fraîche Dinner: Trout fillets with saffron-lemon grass-tomato; carrot and courgette stirfry; new potatoes Filo parcels of pineapple and banano; chocolate rum sauce Recipes from Bruno Loubet, Tessa Bramley respectively |
Monday 8.01 |
Gorgonzola risotto, watercress Bay Tree Co. Christmas fruits, toasted brioche, crème fraîche |
Tuesday 9.01 |
Bigham's Persian lamb parcels (lamb, olives, pine kernels in filo); couscous with aubergine and red pepper and mint-shallot-garlic-coriander-yoghurt Baked pear, chestnuts, dulce de leche |
Wednesday 10.01 |
Butter beans, parma ham, stock, cream, truffle oil Savoy cabbage leaves stuffed with flat mushrooms, porcini, breadcrumbs; wheat kernels I cooked the wheat kernels for 50 mins, but they're still a little on the chewy side |
Thursday 11.01 |
Braised steak and shitake mushrooms, sprouts-onion-balsamic, potato and celeriac mash Apple and blackberry crumble |
Friday 12.01 |
Sardines on toast (sardine piccante, red peppers, baguette) Spag bol, salad |
Saturday 13.01 |
Lunch: Sandwiches of chèvre-redpepper-tomato-salad, and parma ham-salad Cena: Nick Salmón, lentejas de Puy, tomates, pimiento, menta, aciete de aguacate Pintada, castañas, membrillo; col de Savoy con beicon; patatas asadas Pera en asafrán, pudin de arroz especiado (asafran, canela, chile, cardamamo, clavo, jengibre) Belton cheshire, Gorgonzola, Saint Albray |
Sunday 14.01 |
Lunch: Ate out Dinner: Salmon in tandoori marinade, dhal, rice |
Monday 15.01 |
Spring rolls with the guineau fowl leftovers, with ginger-garlic-soy-muscovado sugar-sesame oil-mirin; Savoy cabbage and mushrooms with onion-ginger-chilli-garlic-sesame oil-oyster sauce; noodles Bay Tree Co. fruits with cream and yoghurt |
Tuesday 16.01 |
Sprout, red lentil, bacon soup Pasta with flat mushrooms, porcini, cream |
Wednesday 17.01 |
Chicken livers and shallots with black pepper, allspice, thyme, pomegranate molasses; spinach with garlic, cream, lemon juice; wheat kernels I cooked the wheat kernels for about 1 1/2 hours; this renders the damned things edible Poached dried peaches, rice pudding (from Saturday) |
Thursday 18.01 |
Borscht Pork burgers, sauce of tomato-red pepper-chèvre-white wine-chilli; courgettes, rice |
Friday 19.01 |
Waitrose Roquefort and fig tartlets, baby leek salad Prawns and mushrooms, sauce of tamarind-chilli-tomato; pak choi, rice |
Saturday 20.01 |
Lunch: Spag with spinach, chèvre, garlic Dinner: At Mike and Philippa's |
Sunday 21.01 |
Lunch: Cabbage and gorgonzola gratin, sautéed potato Ate out |
Monday 22.01 |
Waitrose chickpea and chorizo soup Cod with basil, ovendried tomatoes, Parma ham; sweetcorn, gnocchi |
Tuesday 23.01 |
Grilled baby leeks, fried bacon, scrambled eggs with sage The sage does not do much for the look of this. Colin said something along the lines of "The green sludge doesn't look very appetising" Tandoori squash, sauce of tomato puree-chilli-paprika-shallot-yoghurt; black-and-white rice, salad garnish I suppose this was a sort of Squash Tikka Masala |
Wednesday 24.01 |
Denhay sausage, butter beans (with juniper, bay, garlic), braised Little Gem lettuce, toasted sourdough Christmas pudding, rum, crème fraîche Normal cream is better, but we didn't have any in |
Thursday 25.01 |
Goose, chestnut, shallot pies; purple sprouting with fried, crushed walnuts and garlic; mashed potato "Bay Tree" Christmas fruits with crème fraîche and yoghurt |
Friday 26.01 |
Ate out |
Saturday 27.01 |
Lunch: Pasta with onion, bacon, kalonji, fennel seed, crème fraîche, sherry vinegar, fried sesame seeds Lamb noisettes, sauce of tomato-olive-basil-cream, french beans, tagliatelle Cherries in Kirsch, shortbread, cream |
Sunday 28.01 |
Lunch: Aloo parantha, dhal, brinjal pickle Should be lime pickle; only lime pickle will really do. But we only had brinjal in the house McSween's Haggis, neeps, tatties; gravy of onion, black pepper, lamb stock, a little stout Athol Brose: blackberries in vodka, toasted jumbo oats, honey and whisky, whipped cream and a little yoghurt Ok, so we were a little late noticing that it was Burns' Night a few days ago and that the shops were full of haggis. |
Monday 29.01 |
Tartlets of baby beetroot and chèvre, watercress, bread "Bay Tree" Christmas fruits with cream (colin) yoghurt (tracey) |
Tuesday 30.01 |
Salad of blanched, shredded sprout tops, fried cashew nuts, shallot, blood orange, sesame oil-mirin-chilli-garlic-lemon Roast squash slices, sauce of tomato pureé-chilli-garlic-cumin-coriander; red quinoa with chèvre |
Wednesday 31.01 |
Simon and Amelia Crab, avocado, tomato, shallot, chilli, mint, lime, in corn tortillas Slow-roast lamb shanks with olives, garlic, rosemary, bay, thyme; Puy lentils cooked in the meat juices; braised Little Gem lettuce; bread La Rustique brie Chocolate almond cake, cherries in Kirsch, Jersey cream Cake recipe is from Delia Smiths Book of Cakes. I made about 3/4 the quantities, in a 7in tin |
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