september 2010

Soba noodles with savoy, red pepper, cashews, chilli

Cod, fennel, tomatoes, peppers, fried potatoes

Cherries, amaretti, cream

WR Felafel, fennel, salad leaves, chutney

Haricots with olives, parma ham, salad, ciabatta

Lunch: buckwheat, with savoy, a little pork, juniper

Dinner: Ate out

Shezan, with Claire. we had balti jeera and balti adrak

spag with squash, sage, apricot kernels

John

salt cod potato cakes, sauce of roasted chilli and red pepper

tasty, but I'd made the potato stuff a bit wet so it wasn't the world's most elegant potato cake

roast chicken with lavender, salad, green beans, new potatoes

brown bread ice cream, roast plums (Marjorie seedling), damsons, sloe gin

Petit Langres, Berkswell, Gubbeen (fab)

John brought a really nice Crozes-Hermitage, Jaboulet but not Paul J, from M-and-S.

Felafel, chilli hummus and tomato sauce

Aubergines, sauce of pistachios, barberries, caramelised onion, pomegranate; bulghar

Linguine with chicken, leeks, parma ham, cream

Cherries, cream, shortbread

Tortilla soup

Chicken drumsticks, flageolet beans, savoy with the leftover pine kernel sauce, new potatoes

Flag beans, cherry tomatoes, fennel

Sort of pizza with Swiss chard, kalonji, feta. Sauce of the remains of the chilli-pepper sauce, tomatoes, cream, yog.

I made dough when I got home, 5-6 ox flour and as much water as I could get in. Difficult to knead as you get a smear of wet dough on the work top. I went for a ride (the techy mtb ride), when I came back, flattened it on the round baking tray, let it rise a bit then baked for 5 mins with no topping, then with the topping for abot 15 mins. This was good.

Grilled corncobs, sauce of peanut-chipotle-sesame-tomato puree

Pork fillet with red wine and coriander sauce, fried courgettes, quinoa

pork from the freezer

Lunch: bulghar, green beans, courgettes, halloumi

Dinner: Ate out

Bar and Wok, with Michael, Mark and Mary M, Matt, Liz.

Lunch: Spag with tomato-cream-basil

Dinner: WR tomato and brie tarts, rocket, chutney

Peppers stuffed with tomatoes-tapenade and aubergine-salted lemon-chilli, breadcrumbs; rocket, ciabatta

Fried potatoes, parmesan, grilled; fried parma ham, little gem salad, olive ide cream

half an egg with cream and milk, 12 small olives pureed

Pears fried in butter, raspberries, cream

NCG Lebanese lentil and chickpea soup

Eid Mubarak (belatedly)

Cod in Parma Ham, peas, fried potatoes

Ate out

Brosh

Pork ossobuco (from freezer), sauteed fennel, risotto

Pineapple, chilli syrup, white rum, toasted coconut

Little gem with feta and pickled lemon, roast garlic dressing, croutons

Grilled corncob, garlic oil; squash with sesame, oregano, cilantro, chipolte sauce, cream; Quinoa.

Lunch: pasta with cauli and feta

Dinner: Ate out

Connie's birthday

Lunch: linguine with cream, peas, ham

At 4pm. We went for what we thought would be a short ride in Wiltshire..

Dinner: Felafel, rocket, chutney

Aubergine, pepper, mozz towers, rocket, ciabatta

Beef stroganoff, green beans, gnocchi

Mango in lime leaf, and lemon grass syrup, toasted coconut

mozz with toasted ciabatta and homemade pesto

rice noodles with savoy, carrot, spring onion, shiitake, sauce os garlic-ginger, chilli, sesame, white miso, soy

Squash in ras with yog and hummus; green beans, caramelised onion, rice with barberries and fried apricot kernels

Pineapple, mango, coconut milk, cardamom, black pepper

Chicken thighs, green lentils, savoy, mashed potatoes

Apple and blackberry, caramelised oatmeal, cream

Ate out

Wagon Wheel at Grimley, with Mum

Lunch: soba noodles, cabbage, beans, spring onions, oyster sauce

Dinner: Trout with bacon and mustard, sauce of cream, shallots, white wine; spinach with caramelised onion, cream, lemon juice, new potatoes

a nice balance of flavours

Tarte Tatin, cream

Lunch: spag with bacon and spinach

Dinner: WR courgette and chevre risotto cake

Duck breast, sauce of sour cherries and mushroom, mange tout, fried potatoes

Gnocchi with mushrooms and porcini; peas

Yellow raspberries, cream, shortbread

Simon and Dinah

Aubergine rolls stuffed with onion, barberries, pistachios

This was very good and worth recording. I used 2 aubergines and grilled 4 lengthways slices from the middle of each. For the stuffing I slow-cooked 2 onions till soft and almost caramelised. About 1-2 tbs barberries which I'd soaked. Probably some garlic. 1-2 tbs pistachios, fried and chopped. 2tbs couscous (ie dry, plus 2 tbs water) Spices : allspice, chilli. A slug of pomegrante molasses. It's near the end of the bottle so it comes out relustantly. Maybe 1/2 tbs. Garnish with mint leaves.

Pork belly slow roasted with garlic and WR chorizo-style sausages; butter beans, savoy, new potatoes

Saffron and pine kernel sponge cake; yog-cream-honey-orange flower water

4oz flour/butter/sugar + 2 eggs, generour pinch saffron 1-2 tbs pinoli

some soft thing from Ireland

Fish stew, fried fennel, bread

Tarte Tatin, cream

Ate Out