october 2011 |
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Saturday 1.10 |
Lunch: spag with vongole sauce Dinner: aubergines parmigiana, rocket, ciabatta WR HB choc and rosemary ice cream, biscuits |
Sunday 2.10 |
Lunch: gnocchi, tomato and cream sauce Dinner: celeriac, potato, gorgonzola gratin; green beans Figs baked in blackberry vinegar |
Monday 3.10 |
NCG dhal soup WR Kerala curry, prawns and mushrooms; corn and asparagus curry |
Tuesday 4.10 |
Courgettes stuffed with lentils, bacon; fried potatoes Poached pear, rest of the choc ice cream |
Wednesday 5.10 |
Salad of chard, beetroot, walnuts, lentils, orange and cardamom Pappardelle with pheasant sauce |
Thursday 6.10 |
Ate out Brosh |
Friday 7.10 |
Salad of lentils, carrot, beetroot, radishes, horseradish Chard gratin, potatoes |
Saturday 8.10 |
Lunch: dhal, with lots of onion, coconut and peanut sauce; fried squash, rice Dinner: roast partridge, chestnut, cauli and garlic, myrtilles pasta Quince and cream |
Sunday 9.10 |
Lunch: spag, artichokes and peanut and chilli sauce Dinner: Fillet steak, cream, mushroom mustard sauce, fried squash, gnocchi WR cheesecake |
Monday 10.10 |
WR spinach boreks Celeriac and sweet potato fried, watercress salad, gorgonzola sauce, broad beans |
Tuesday 11.10 |
Aubergines, bacon, avocado, rocket, ciabatta Mango pineapple passion, ginger in syrup, chilli |
Wednesday 12.10 |
halloumi, tomatoes, rocket artichokes; carmelised onions; green lentils, mint, bulghar; sort of tahina sauce this was quite successful as a last minute throw things together dinner |
Thursday 13.10 |
Ate Out The Snooty Fox, Tetbury with Connie and Chas |
Friday 14.10 |
a sort of tarte flammiche: leeks, cream, bacon on puff pastry; potatoes apples on toasted waffles |
Saturday 15.10 |
Lunch: pasta with walnut sauce Dinner: Michael somehow managed to get all the cooking done as well as a bike ride and 2 literary festival events and go to the cheese shop. oh and tidy the house crown prince squash roasted in yoghurt, ras; couscous; barberries and caramelised onions, tahina, avocado oil this style is a bit of a steal from Brosh, it works. Pork belly slow roasted with apples, chestnuts black pudding; butter beans; cabbage and juniper, bread The bread was an attempt at ciabatta. I used about 12oz flour and a lot of water, no idea how much, a bit too much at first and I threw in some more later, I mixed it in the bowl but used the spatula to stretch it, then later, hands, but it's too wet to knead. Some olive oil went in too. I left it a couple of hours over the morning. Then turn it into th 7in square tin and left it to rise a bit, then in the oven. It rose pretty well and gave a great texture, the right amount of chewyness and a good flavour. The air holes weren't as big as some shop loaves, but similar to others we have bought. I had imagined the stuffing inside the pork rolled up but I had way too much so it got parcelled up in foil we had a fab Hermitage star anise ice cream, plums, damsons Sort of Michael's suggestion as he said he'd once had such a thing. I used more of less the same recipe as I did for Ivan: 2 eggs, 8floz cream, 1 anise 1/2 tsp ginger, 1/4 cinnamon. This time 1.5 tbs caster sugar, 1.5 muscovado, plus 1tsp Pernod. Maybe the machine didn't jam quite as quickly as it did with Ivan, but I had to scrape it out and finish it in the freezer. It was very good, and we scoffed the lot. Vacherin, Stichelton, Wigmore, Berkswell Then we came up with this brilliant joke about the greedy algorithm being named after Mr Greedy, like on Peter's tshirt. |
Sunday 16.10 |
Lunch: squash, shallots, tomates, lots of oil, bread This morning I rode all the way up Greenway Lane, a few stops of my choice, not the rocks. Dinner: Fillet steak with olive crust, potatoes, broad beans Raspberries and cream |
Monday 17.10 |
NCG pumpkin soup Mushroom and bean gratin, salad, potatoes |
Tuesday 18.10 |
Stitchelton, salad, croutons risotto with Champagne, prawns, mushrooms; peas and onion |
Wednesday 19.10 |
black pudding, cabbage, barley, chutney quince, cream etc |
Thursday 20.10 |
Sweetcorn fritters, chilli jelly A week or so ago there was a recipe by Nigel Sltaer for these in the paper but we had recycled it. All I could remember was that he used fresh corn, and a whisked egg white. So it this I used the kernels from 2 cobs, batter made from egg yolk a bit of cream and some flour but that didn't hold the corn so I liquidised some of it. Then whisked egg white. This works. It make quite a lot, only trouble is it uses every bowl and pan in the kitchen so poor Colin comes home to an obviously large stack of washing up. 5-spice pork, pak choi, soba noodles |
Friday 21.10 |
Ate out Bras. Blanc with John |
Saturday 22.10 |
Lunch: spag with squash Dinner: Claire Paella .. a veggie version with peppers, artichokes, peas, mushrooms Sticky toffee pudding, clotted cream I'd suggested ice cream but Claire said she would only turn it back into custard and in any case it is cold and cold means we can have proper pudding (tho Claire also said her Dad thinks any weather suits proper puddings) goody. There is tons in the freezer now. Then we watched the Avengers one about the man eating plant from Mars |
Sunday 23.10 |
Lunch: pak choi, courgettes, tamarind and ginger sauce; rice I did the nemesis root properly, yeh get my own back on plants Dinner: lamb chops, baba ganoush and olives, red peppers and chilli, potatoes squash custards I did this mainly because I'd cracked an egg when shopping yesterday and had to use it up. Cooked 5.5 oz of the Crown Prince squash, made custard with the egg and about half a thing of single cream whatever the smallest size WR do. 1.5 tbs sugar. 1tbs lime juice. 1 leaf gel to set it, melt in to the custard. Liquidise the lot. I did some caramelised pumpkin seeds with chilli but the chilli hot stuff just vaporises. ow ow ow. |
Monday 24.10 |
Butter beans, parma ham, cream, truffle oil Filo parcels of squash, potato, sundried tomatoes-olives-preserved lemon; spinach with lime juice |
Tuesday 25.10 |
Spag with red pepper and goats cheese sauce; rocket Poached figs, ginger, ginger liqueur, ginger biscuits |
Wednesday 26.10 |
Halloumi, artichokes, spinach Lamb and chickpeas, PSB with tahini, bulghar lamb leftover from Ivan's visit, sitting unlabelled in the freezer |
Thursday 27.10 |
Ate out The Elms, with mum - 80 today! |
Friday 28.10 |
salad of beetroot, radishes, fried walnuts Pearl barley orzotto with mushrooms, porcini and chestnuts; psb and green cauli with oilve oil this was good |
Saturday 29.10 |
Lunch: couscous with squash and cauli, ras el hanout and tomato sauce Dinner: split pea soup with squash cream not entirely sure what I was after. I did . um . 8oz split peas, used half in this soup. Liquidised some of it, with softened onions. For the cream, a slice of Crown Prince, boiled then pureed with fresh rosemary and some cream, and a little water. It was good Ossobuco with black pepper, sage; baby fennel with tomatoes; polenta I would not normally cook imported baby veg, but WR had these reduced. |
Sunday 30.10 |
Lunch: Dhal and potato fritters Dinner: cod in parma ham, boulangere potatoes, peas and shallot Filo parcels of pears and boozy cherries |
Monday 31.10 |
Bruschette with beetroot, chevre, hazlenuts; salad Dell'Ugo crab and langoustine ravioli, salad |
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