november 2012 |
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Thursday 1.11 |
celeriac and gorgonzola gratin, beans WR pancakes, blackcurrants in vodka, cream |
Friday 2.11 |
pappardelle with girolles and cream
lambs kidneys with black pepper, wine, yellow split peas, spinach simple, works very well. The pepper comes through very fruity |
Saturday 3.11 |
Lunch: soba noodles, cabbage, beans, chicken, cashews, yellow bean sauce chicken was pieces off a carcase, I'd bought to make stock Dinner: Ate out 3 gables, Bradford - Charles's 90th! |
Sunday 4.11 |
Lunch: spag.. WR sweetcorn fritters haddock, split peas |
Monday 5.11 |
Ate out the Daffodil, with Chris and Maria |
Tuesday 6.11 |
porcini risotto with truffle oil; peas and lettuce WR pear and almond tart |
Wednesday 7.11 |
sweet potato gnocchi, walnut sauce, fried sage leaves parsnip, with paprika and yog, fried; black urad dhal, little gem leaves |
Thursday 8.11 |
Martin pork ossobuco, olives, pearl barley; fennel and peppers did all this last night. simple but really nice mascarpone, lemon curd, lemon cake, limoncello |
Friday 9.11 |
fried onion and cauli in gram flour batter not sure what was trying to do here, it was ok sausages, red cabbage with chinese spices, potato and celeriac mash |
Saturday 10.11 |
Lunch: dhal, rice Dinner: Michael squid-ink spag, sauce of brown shrimps, tomato, chilli, Pernod 4 oz of spag, leftover from the holiday. Sauce was one not-too-hot large chilli from WR. Took out the seeds and insides, fried with 1 big clove garlic then with 6 cherry tomatoes, finally threw in 1tbs Pernod and boiled it. Then liquidised with a little more olive oil. gentrly fried the chilli, sliced v thin. Strained the sauce, add the chilli. This was really good - the Pernod flavour was just right. Michael brought a nice Burgundy. Sirloin steak, "chips", mushroom and porcini duxelles with truffe oil, rocket I'd joked to Michael that we'd do prawn cocktail, steak, black forest gateau - this wasn't far off. Did the steaks 5 mins then rested then a few mins (they were 2cm thick, about), deglazed pan with port. Chips were roast wedges. Had truffle oil for 3rd time within a week. We had the 2003 9 popes hoping that would be enough popes for Michael. Very good it was too. We discussed whether there had been 9 Avignon popes or we they antipopes. And what would happen when a pope meets an antipope. Though yes we do know what the name is a pun on. Chocolate fondants with griottes, cream. As in Hugh FW recipe conveniently in the paper some weeks ago. Fabulous recipe, it really works. Tickelmore cheddar, Vacherin, Cashel Blue |
Sunday 11.11 |
Lunch: spag, mushroom sauce we'd been for a ride to Northleach I made Colin suffer a bit. I went through an icy puddle at Hilcot, hilcot is an evil place. Dinner: Tilapa fillets with marinade of lemongrass coconut oil chilli lime juice. Fried potatoes, sugar snaps Fish took 3 and a half min, perfect. Pears poched in red wine, pine nuts, gorgonzola |
Monday 12.11 |
steak strips, refritos, tomatoes and peppers, avocada, corn tortillas passion fruit tarts (from WR) |
Tuesday 13.11 |
dell ugo crayfish and crab ravioli, cream and saffron sauce oven-roast tomatoes wih olives and basil, aubergines done some sort of Colinsih way, ciabatta |
Wednesday 14.11 |
celey gratin this was good. i braised a whole head of celery, then cut it into small 1" chunks, then put in wide ramekins with what was left of the cream; crust of breadcrumbs and walnuts ground up together, and a small amount of gorgonzola sweet potato, red lentil curry that I made up: sichuan, black pepper, fresh ginger, 5-6 prunes, fried peanuts; quinoa "pilaff" with onion fried in coconut oil. also some broc for contrast this was experimental and works very well, flavours intriguing |
Thursday 15.11 |
Ate out Angora, with people from Colin's office. Colin: "it's so nice to sit down with a bottle of wine in front of you" heather: "has it been a hard day, Colin?" Colin: "no it's just been a day" |
Friday 16.11 |
gratin of Jerusalems, macaroni, hazlenuts, thyme and rosemary; ps-broc pears, amaretti, amaretto, mascarpone |
Saturday 17.11 |
Lunch: spag, gorgonzola and cream sauce, psb Dinner: Phoenix and Pat pumkin and lenil and ginger soup, fried pumkin seeds with ras 1 onion, some ginger, garlic, about 600g (with peel etc) queen squash, 4oz red lentils. roast guineau fowl, stuffed with chestnuts, prunes, sausage; savoy cabbage, roast potatoes tarte tatin |
Sunday 18.11 |
Breakfast: huevos mexicanos Brunch: aloo paratha I can explain...it was -4 when we got up and we didn't fancy a ride right early in the morning. But to leave it till after lunch would have been too late. Lunch: spag with guinea fowl and cream sauce Dinner: WR chennai potoatoes risotto of beetroot, halloumi, hazelnuts; green beans |
Monday 19.11 |
vension steaks, myrtilles sauce, cabbage, potato WR pear tart |
Tuesday 20.11 |
fish soup with fennel, green beans, bread tarte tatin |
Wednesday 21.11 |
fairly big chillies grilled and stuffed with peanuts, cumin, fried red lentils sort of laksa: sweet potatoes, peas, tomatoes in coconut sauce, rice noodles |
Thursday 22.11 |
chicken thighs in 5-spice, pak choi, soba noodles sweetcorn pannacotta sorta following Annie Bell's ice cream recipe. I used 1 mould full of corn, cooked in milk, made up to 10floz with cream. 2 leaves of gelatine, a bit firm. |
Friday 23.11 |
Ate out Marinades, with John, we had cocktails! |
Saturday 24.11 |
Lunch: spgag with tomatoes, mascarpone, basil Dinner: sausage cassoulet, watercress salad, bread with onion and kalonji cheese |
Sunday 25.9 |
Lunch: mum Lamb shanks with olives, pearl barley; peas and lettuce chocolate and pear cake This was sorta the recipe in the paper but half the amount and in the 22cm tim with 2 pears sliced and stuck in it. it took longer to cook, maybe an hour? Dinner: aubergines parmigiana, rocket, ciabatta |
Monday 26.11 |
savoy cabbage, mushrooms, fried potatoes raspberies, cream |
Tuesday 27.11 |
parsnip soup, indian spiced Chicken, avocado, tomatoes, rice |
Wednesday 28.11 |
chicken livers, paprika and tomato sauce; linguine, cabbage with caraway absolutely the last of the cheese |
Thursday 29.11 |
Corgettes stuffed with halloumi and something Fried celeriac wedges, walnut-breadcrumb-garlic sauce, pearl barley this worked really well, sauce was a bit of a punt but it did work |
Friday 30.11 |
Ate out Le Champignon Sauvage |
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