may

Ate out

Lunch:

Dinner: Radnor sausages, morcilla, puy lentils, green beans, fried potato, chutney

sausage chips and beans. The organic shop has some real morcilla espan˜a

Lunch: spring rolls of g-fowl scraps, peanut-chilli relish; pak choi, spring onion, carrot with noodles, oyster sauce

Dinner: psb, onions, lentils with balsamic truffle glaze

Gnocchi with mushrooms, porcini, spinach, cream

this was all a bit rubbish , I'd kept about 4oz potato from yesterday and added 2 oz flour and 0.5 of semolina, the dough felt convincing but the gnocchi were heavy. The spinach makes the sauce watery, maybe better to cook it and drain it first. Anyway colins got the same stinky cold I had last week so we're not trying too hard

Lunch: spag and tomato-chilli (C) ; spag and spinach-garlic (T)

Dinner, boled spiced beef, cucumber in vinegar and dill, saurkraut, potato and celeriac mash, mustard, chutney

needless to say we had beer with this

Lemon curd & orenage flower water set yoghurts

fab fab fab

Juice of 1 lemon, 1.5 tbs sugar, 1 med egg, 0.5 tbs butter. Whisk juice, sugar, egg; melt butter & slowly cook the juice-egg mix to a curd. Soak 1.5 Costa leaves gelatine and dissolve in the warm curd, then add dregs of cream and enough thick yog to make 10 floz. And some OFW too. Let it almost set then decant into little pudding bowls

WR dolmades and yog

WR stifado, courgettes, rice

Smoked pilchards, green lentils with lime chilli jelly

the lime jelly doesn't go, it's too sweet

Spiced beef, lettuce, baby potatoes, mayonnaise

Simon Dinah (and Amelia)

Asparagus cooked in butter, parma ham

Confit of duck, RWS salad + wild garlic, baby new potatoes

Rhubarb cake and yogurt

recipe from the internet

Ardrahan, Double Gloucester, some interesting pongy ones Simon had

Meze: Moroccan carrot salad, olives, peppadew, halloumi, fried seeds with reh, pitta

This is meze in the sense of using up what was in the fridge. Colin says this is the only thing to do with carrots. Vinegar.

Salad, green beans, lentils with spring onion and dill, last of the beef, more pitta

Lunch: pak choi, gren beans, soya beans, cashews with miso, garlic, chilli; rice

nice

Dinner: ate out

Breakfast: aloo and onion paranthas, dhal

Then we rode up lecky hill yeah

Lunch: Tag with asparagus, chorizo, egg

Dinner: Duck breasts, sour cherry sauce, mange tout, fried taters

Pears in butter and amaretto, almonds

Pate, toast, chutney, salad leaves

Pork and kidney bean casserole, cilantro, sweetcorn, rice

Spag with dried tomaotes, capers, olives, courgettes

Poached pears in wine, gorgonzola

Peter

Asparagus, avocado oil, Berkswell cheese

I just boiled the asparagus.

Wild salmon; spinach; butter beans with garlic, lemon zest and juice; Jersey Royals with mayo-mustard-dill-shallot

I only realised Peter was here for the conference on Monday. First ideas for what to cook were tagine or sausage-and-beans, not sure how it turned into salmon, but WR had a last piece of wild Alaska salmon just the right size.

Ate out

Tracey at the conference dinner, Colin elsewhere

Big mushrooms with breadcrumbs, walnuts, garlic

Asparagus risotto, eggs, round lettuce salad

not very inspired but I'm a bit tired. The eggs in the risotto were sort of nice but not worth trying again

Lunch: spag

Dinner: scallops with pea puree and ras caramel

pea puree was with dried peas, the ras caramel from David E-M; it's really good

Chicken thighs in almond-saffron sauce, green beans with dry spices, coconut; rice

Lunch: Salad of green beans, asparagus, curly pasta, mayo

Ate out

Venison steak, mushrooms, myrtilles sauce, spinach, mash with garlic

WR squash and ginger soup (with ras caramel)

Tagliatelle with chicken, peppers, tomato sauce; courgettes

Raspberries, cream, cantucci

puy lentils with chorizo and onions, fried potato, salad

cranachan: toasted oats, pecans, apricots in brandy, cream, maple syrup

Ate out

We've gone to Corsica

Dinner: Steak with black pepper, salad, red pepper and tomato, couscous

Strawbs, fromage blanc, clementine marmelade

Lunch: salad with anchovy dressing, chilli, pine kernels, bread

Dinner: tomato stuffed with olives and anchovies

Chard with lemon, oil, pines; brebis and bread

Lunch: Coco beans, ratatouille, bread

Dinner: Sanglier terrine and bread

Canneloni of brebis; red pepper sauce

Lunch.1 Potato and ham pie from the nice shop near the main square.

Ate out

Veal (small steak in strips) with wild lavender (yum); gnocchi, ratatouille

Cheese and bread

Beans olives anchovies, red pepper sauce

Red mullet wild fennel lemon; couscous, pepper-garlic-ras, salad

Lemon tartlets

Brebis canneloni and garlic

Beans, saucisson, salad, bread

Lunch: spag with pines and herbs

Dinner: pork steaks, black pepper and garlic, chicroy and lardons, spag

Dinner: rocket and lardons

Buter beans and figatelli (a jar) bread