june

Dinner: Chestnut pasta, noci sauce

Salad of steak strips, peppers, cos lettuce, pecorino

Lunch: Chestnut pasta, porcini sauce

Dinner: linguine, clams and salami, tomatoes

Courgettes with flowers stuffed with pine kernels, cheese, herbs

Dinner: Ravioli of shrimp and zucca flowers with sage and butter

Branzino with capers; borlotti, tomatoes, lemon, garlic, and salad

Lunch: Linguine with salami and peppers and tomatoes

Dinner: Parma ham and bread

Linguine with tuna, artichoke, olive paste

Pork involtini, tomato sauce, green beans

Dinner: parma ham and melon

Tortellini with porcini sauce

Onions with rosemary, ricotta, lardons

Lunch (T) Chestnut pasta with pine kernels

Dinner: Crostini with artichoke, tuna, olive paste

Testaroli (sort of pancake things), hare sauce

Herb pie, lentils with lardons and tomatoes

Melon with ricotta and mandarin marmelade

Ate out

We're back home

Lunch: Couscous with chilli, sauteed squash, halloumi, watercress

Dinner: cucumber and almond and mint gazpacho

Chicken fried then sliced thinly, chickpeas and spinach with lemon zest, preservred lemon, lemon juice; saute potatoes

Cod, tomato and fennel, broad beans, new potatoes

Peach ice cream

2 peaches, poached with a little sugar, then pureed, 5floz cream, some creme de peche. It stays a bit soft; we think that's the booze

NCG Thai red pepper soup

Salad of avocado, bacon, aubergine, rocket, ciabatta

Venison steaks, beetroot fried in butter, sauce of red wine; green beans in butter, new potatoes

Raspberries, whipped cream, shortbread

Mackerel with lemon baked in vine leaves, broad beans with lemon and thyme, bulghar and green lentils with harissa

Strawberries with black pepper and agrodolce

Ate out

Lunch: Spag with porcini, mushrooms, crea

Dinner: feta, green lentils with garlic and mint, beetroot, sauteed squash

Broad beans, basmati rice, thyme, pecorino, olive oil

Robert Young had crates of broad beans at £3.50 and I couldn't resist. I needed two large panniers to bring them home. These are the panniers we'd carry our entire camping kit in. I spent most of Thursday evening podding the things.

Lunch: Ate out

Burgers, pomegranate-cinnamon-mushroom, spinach and lemon, rice

Bighams lamb things, courgettes, tagliatelle

Pears in red wine, gorgonzola ice cream

wow

Risotto with smoked salmon, mushrooms, Cava; peas

Pears in butter, pistachio ice cream

WR olives, anchovies, peppers polenta cake

Confit chicken thighs, green lentils with lemon, lettuce, bread

Halloumi, capers, artichokes, lentils with mint

Chorizo, broad beans, Jersey royals, lettuce

Mexican spice beef with kidney beans and red peppers; green peppers, quinoa

Citrus almond cake, yoghurt with orange flower water

Lunch: spag with artichokes and chorizo

Dinner: Rack of lamb with herb crust, courgette and feta cakes, Jersey royals

the courgette cakes are from Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries book, and they are really nice. It seems he thinks they are the main part of the meal but he is probably not a pig like us. Rack of lamb takes 30 mins: 10 high, 10 medium, 10 rest.

Lemon meringue pie

Actually my first ever attempt. Not entirely successful

Dinner: Tartlets of red pepper, sundried tomatoes, chilli

Sirloin steak, Colin's sauce, braised lettuce, Jersey royals.

WR greek spinach pastries

Gratin of celeriac with parma ham, RWS salad

Chicken with porcini, mushrooms, truffle oil, cream; green beans; gnocchi

Cherries in Kirsch, cream, amaretti

Onion bhaji and lime pickle

Salad of chicory leaves, the hearts braised in agrodolce, gorgonzola, walnuts, croutons, potatoes

Hummus and pitta

Salad of lettuce, anchovies, olives, capers, boiled egg, tomato, potatoes

Simon and Amelia

Crab, asparagus, ham tart

14 stalks of asparagus. Cut the nice ends as long as the radius of the tart tin, rest of it in chunks. Crab was one of those cooked ones with the meat packed in the shell. I simmered the shell in some milk for 30 mins then strained and reduced it. Then added to 2 beaten large eggs and half a tub of cream. A little ham, a bit less than a slice. It was magnificent.

Poached salmon, broad beans, linguine

Strawberries and orange flower water set yoghurt

About 1 tbs honey, most of a big pot of Greek-style yoghurt, some OFW, 2 leaves gelatine (Costa)

Lunch: spag with ham, peas, dill, Greek yoghurt

Dinner: crab tart

Peppers, courgettes, demisec tomatoes with chilli; bulghar with pumpkinseed oil

Lunch: spag with gorgonzola and onion

Dinner: Party

Barbecued Spiced lamb burgers

6lbs mince, made into 32 burgers

Squash and onion kebabs

2 largeish squash

Moong dhal with lemon and cilantro

2lbs dhal, 2 lemons, big bag cilantro

Chickpeas, aubergines, coconut and tamarind curry

2lbs chickpeas, 4 aubergines, 1 can coconut

Tomato and cucumber in mint and yoghurt

About 15 tomatoes and 2-3 small cucs

Saffron rice

4 mugfulls of rice

Potatoes and lime pickle

12-15? medium potatoes, pretty well a whole jar of pickle

Sweets: semolina and coconut and cardamom, mango and OFW; pisatchio and rosewater

Tomato and yoghurt gazpacho

Chickpea curry from the party