april 2012

Lunch: rice noodles, cabbage, carrots, shiitake mushrooms

Dinner: meatballs, peppers, sugarsnaps, rice

fried pears

WR brie and tomato tarlets, salad

Borscht

potato and garlic cakes, harissa, salad

a sort of curry with sweet potatoes, aubergine, peas, peanuts, allspice, black pepper, rice

smoked mackerel, capers, celeriac remoulade,

roast peppers, aubergine-tomato-basil and lentils-olives; roast potato wedges

Ate out

Thai bras, then we rode down steps and the bandstand dropoff

ciabatta, aubergine parmigiana, rocket

Pears poached in red wine, pine kernels, gorgonzola

Lunch: ate out

Wooley Grange, with Colin's family

Dinner: Salad of pearl barley, squash and beetroot radish in zaatar, salad leaves

Lunch: spag, weird tomato and chilli sauce

Dinner: fried asparagus

slow cooked pork belly, porcini, chestnut mushrooms, roast potatoes, spinach

Dinner: John

salad of wild garlic, goats cheese, grilled courgettes

I'd promised John the wild garlic but of course it went and rained today. I have found a more local source of wild garlic, namely halfway up Crippetts, so not as bad as going all the way to Birdlip

lamb with allspice, black pepper, pomegranate molasses; bulghar pilaff with barberries; squash roasted in yoghurt and ginger, spinach

maple and pecan ice cream, medjool dates

Vacherin, yarg, keens cheddar

John likened the Vacherin to rotten forest floor

We tried the wasabi chocolate and John guessed it was mustard (not bad)

It is ages since we cooked for anyone, partly because we have been trying to tidy up the house

bulghar, carrot and beetroot, radish with avocado oil, shallot

leftover special

aubgerine slices, tahini and yoghurt, peas, fried potato slices

Colin suggested baba ganoush and chips

asparagus risotto

ice cream and dates

felafel, salad

pappadelle with lemon, cream, olives .. and red chillies

Colin forgot to get pancetta, so we have the veggie alternative .. chillies

Dinner: Michael

This was an attempt at Keralan food. (And we showed Michael the holiday photos which are mostly of tea, vadas, porothas, dosas etc oh and steps)

prawns in garlic and kalonji; dosas with sambar

I got the mix to ferment all right but not quite getting the pancake consistency right. Tasted ok.

Fish pollichattu, green beans thoran, dhal, sambar with bhindi, brinjal in cashew sauce, rice, ginger yoghurt

Quite a lot of things, but that's what we were getting in the thalis. The sambar worked convincingly, and the brinjal curry was nice, and the beans. I think I overcooked the fish, but I was trying to do too much. The dhal turned out bitter, maybe it was the turmeric? I think we should throw out old spices

Orange and Cardamom ice cream, orange syrup.

same recipe as for John last year, very good.

we tried out the wasabi chocolate on Michael but he didn't get the flavour, hopeless..

Lunch: spag with tomatoes anchovies

Dinner: cod, green beans, capers

Veal escalopes, walnut sauce, gnocchi, courgettes

Lunch: spag (Colin) Dhal (Tracey)

tracey had been out to help with the HONC

Dinner: gratin dauphinoise with pancetta, cos salad

Fillet steak, mustard and cream sauce, watercress, rice

Figs grilled with honey, toasted apricot kernels

prawns with preserved lemon mayonnaise, cos lettuce

Tart with goats cheese and squash, watercress, new potatoes

Pastry: 1/5 oz butter, 3oz flour, 1.3 tbs water. Filling: 10oz squash, cubed, boiled the fried with ras. 1 eggs, 2oz mild goat cheese, 2oz goats yog, 1 tbs flour. Cooked about 15-20 mins gas 5 (?)

Ate out

Zizzi

Pork belly, red cabbage, fried potatoes

Pave, cream

Avocado, prawns, tomato, chilli, tortilla chips

spag with parma ham, cream; red peppers

Lunch: Ate out

Fusion, near worcs, with mum and derek

Dinner: gnocchi, mushrooms tomato cream sauce, green beans

Lunch: Mark, Mary, Matthias

last time round, Mattias was just a bump

Butter beans, chanterelles, wild garlic

Squash and goats cheese tart, grilled courgettes with preserved lemon and olive oil dressing, bulghar pilaff with onion, barberries, fried hazlenuts

Pastry=6oz flour, 3 oz butter. Tin=8" deepish one. One butternut squash, medium?? Filling 2 eggs, 5floz goast yoghurt, 2tbs flour, 1-2oz soft goat cheese, this all mixed in. Then 4.5-5oz of goat log, sort of cut into pieces. I roasted the squash in chunks for some amount of time, maybe 30 mins. Prebaked tart 20 mins. The filling took about 15 mins to set, maybe a bit more, at gas 5. It was very good

orange, yoghurt sesame cake, yoghurt, orange syrup

fried squid, green beans, caramelised cauli, rice noodles

Colin is away. I think squid is best left to those with deep fat fryers. I tried the idea from Nigel Slater's page last sunday, of grilling cauli slices with sugar. Kinda worked but I wasn't convinced

tarte tatin

from the freezer

pasta, gorgonzola, fried cauli

another go, this time frying the cauli slices until caramelised - no sugar. I liked this better

cake, syrup

rogan josh curry (spicetailor) with mushrooms, potato; fried squash with coconut; paratha

the bought curry pack is very good; my paratha were a bit rubbish

pancakes (WR, ahem), peaches in booze

aubergine slices, fried potato and halloumi with chilli and lemon

cake, ice cream

cake for sunday, ice cream left over from Michael

Jerusalem soup, fried walnuts

lamb, in a sort of bulghar biriyani effect (good); ps-broc

lamb from freezer (leftover from John)

Lunch: ps-broc, fried spring onions, sauce of caramelised garlic and tahini; quinoa

Dinner: Roast guinea fowl with lavender and honey; spinach with fried onions, kalonji, lemon, fried spring onions; potato and dill bread

Bread recipe from Dan Leppard in the paper a couple of months ago - really good, the whole thing was really good. The gf and spinach are sort of taken from Silvena Rowe's recipes - the kalonji really works well with spinach. The honey isn't too overpowering - I think I used 2 tbs total.

squash saffron pannacotta

Lunch: pappardelle with shrimps

nice pappardelle. nice shrimps. today it rained all day and we needed cheering up.

Dinner: chickpeas, chorizo, onion, peppers, sauce of mexican chillies; water cress, potato bread

Grapefruit curd meringues

From Rachel Khoo on the telly. This is excellent and it really works. I can do meringue!

Mushroom soup

Guineau fowl legs, braised chicory, jersey royals