july

Risotto with asparagus, broad beans, peas

Strawberries and cream

Belly pork in ginger and garlic, courgette and onion, soba noodles

Gooseberries, ellderflower, custard

Melon and chilli soup

Ricotta, courgettes, tomatoes, peppers, olives with polenta and pumpkinseed oil

Sardines with chilli, green lentils, preserved lemon

Chicken, poached then marinated in raspberry vinegar, couscous with pine kernels, watercress

Lunch: Spag with aubergines, tomatoes, anchovies, cinnamon

Dinner: Waitrose risotto cake with porcini and gorgonzola

Duck breasts, peach sauce, green beans, sautee potatoes

The "red"potatoes, Desiree we think, sliced, boiled, fried. This potato works well - they were crisp outside and fluffy inside

Lunch: spag with tomato and chilli sauce

Dinner: Ate out

Salad of RWS, sauteed sweet potatoes, red peppers, chilli; ciabatta with pumpkinseed oil

Peach and pistachio ice cream, amaretti

Pea soup

Beefburgers, mushrooms, mustard red wine cream sauce, gnocchi, salad

Chard, onions, sherry vinegar, chilli garlic, fried almonds, bulghar

Quince and cream

Pea soup

Braised fennel, oragne, green lentils, new potatoes

Ate out

Lunch: spag with aubergine, mint, nutmeg, tomato, halloumi

Dinner: Broad beans, bacon, ricotta wth dill

Pigeon breasts marinated in raspberry vinegar and balck pepper, faggot of the leg meat with bacon, red chard and pine kernels, cream sauce with stoc, quinoa cooked in stock

Lunch: spag with bacon, tomato, paprika

Marinated anchovies on toast

Mushrooms and porcini, truffle oil, cream, fresh peas, polenta cakes

Raspberries in framboise, cream, amaretti

Grilled aubergine slices with tomato-chilli and red pesto, rocket, ciabatta

Sirloin steak, red pepper ice cream, spinach, saute potatoes

1 red pepper cooked and pureed, 1 medium egg, 3 tbs cream, a little chilli. The quantity is too small for this to work in the glacier so we made it in a sort of ice bain-marie using a saucepan inside another containing frozen brine. Despite Tracey's scepticism, this does work

Lemon tarts (Waitrose)

Marinated anchovies and potato

Salad of watercress, potato, radish, beetroot, bacon, horseradish

Melon, pepperberries, vodka, ricotta

Jelly of red pepper and tomato; chicken livers

the jelly didn't work.

Salad of barley with lemon juice, cos lettuce, parmesan, chicken breast

Ate out

Lunch: linguine with chicken livers, tomato, cream

Dinner: Wild seabass rillettes (a jar) and bread

Pork tenderloin with garlic and rosemary, wrapped in vine leaves, padron peppers fried, sauce of hummus, broad beans, lemon, oil; bread

Lunch: rice noodles and squid with ginger, garlic, chilli, soy

Colin ate out

Chicken breast in red pesto, grilled; aubergine cubes in cumin, fried; bread

Strawberries in rosewater, youghurt and cream mousse

yoghurt with 1.3 sheets gel, a little sugar and rosewater, whipped cream

Ruth and John

Salad of cos lettuce, sauteed fennel, parmesan, Pernod

Meatballs with cumin and fennel, sauce of red pepper, paprika, tomato puree, sourcream; tagliatelle

Bara Brith

(which Ruth and John brought)

Bigham's crayfish and rocket fishcakes, whatever sauce comes with them; sauteed courgettes and potatoes

WR apricot tart, sour cream

NCG gazpacho

Tuna, enoki, coconut, redpepper, limeleaves, Thai spices, rice

Couscous and walnut cakes; beetroot, pomegranate molasses, chilli; simmered sweet onion, dill, yoghurt

WR apricot tart and cream

Ate out

Lunch: tomato, courgette, aubergine, couscous

Dinner: Ate out

Lunch: spag with basil, tomatoes, cream

Dinner: Lentil, lemon, coriander, yoghurt soup

Thai curry with basil, sweetcorn, spring onions, rice noodles

Courgette, red pepper, chilli, potato, onion, with eggs, and basil

Pineapple, coconut, rum

Dolmades, bulghar and broad beans, chevre, yoghurt and sour cream, pickled lemon salad

Peach, melon, grapes

Ate out

NCG Moroccan chickpea soup

Dolmades, couscous and tomato, lemon salad