june

Lunch: spag, lardons, fromage blanc

Dinner: red peppers, croutons, olives, poivrons sauce; rocket

Raspberries and wild mint

Lunch: spag, saucisson, tomato

Dinner: chicken legs cooked in ginger and spices, courgettes, pines, couscous

Cheese: Tome corse, brebis and chevre

Dinner: gnocchi with rocket

Veal escalopes, mushrooms, creme fraiche, spag

Sausages, flag beans, fried potato

Cheese

Aubergines with ras and poivrons sauce

Fennel, olives, tomato

but no wild fennel - it seems not to grow at above about 500m

Spinach and ricotta tortellini, creme fraiche

Ate out

Lunch: sandwich from Gatwick

Dinner: Courgette stuffed with courgette onion ras tomato; puy lentils and chprizo; salad; boiled potatoes

Cheeses from Corsica

Chicken stuffed with garlic, tomato, pine

WR raspberry jelly, cream, shortbread

Sea bass, saffron cream sauce with tomatoes

Corsiacn pate and toast

Spag with normal sauce

Poached peaches, cantucci, cream

Pork chops with a thyme, allspice, chilli, tomato; smoked nuts; okra with coconut

WR raspberry jelly, cream, shortbread

Sardines with chilli, salad, croutons with ras and garlic

WR saffron tagliatelle ; slow-roast tomatoes, WR antipasti veg; green beans

Lunch: spag with the last of the corsican sausage, peas, cream

Dinner: Navah, Mark, Kathy

Asparagus and ham tart, salad

Barbecued butterflied leg of lamb, ratatouille, new potatoes

Lemon curd yoghurt with ras caramel and orange

Swaledale ewe, single gloucester, ardrahan

Lunch: Lamb with salad and bulgar and mint

Dinner: NCG gazpacho

Seabass fried, WR veg teabags, fennel-tomato-olives

Pea soup

Crab and broad bean risotto with saffron

BBQ lamb, salad of spinach and potatoes, yoghurt and dill dressing; tomato and basil oil

Mango ice cream

Calzone of spinach, feta, tomato; ratatouille

This works. I made a dough with 6oz flour, 1/2 tsp quick yeast and as much water as I could incorporate. I dumped it onto a tray and left it while I went for a run up Crippets and over Leckhampton hill (1.09). During the run I tried to think about what I might do with this. When I returned, Colin was home and asking when dinner might be ready. I softened some onion, garlic and added the spinach left from yesterday, a few handfuls; plus some mint from the garden that didn't have that insect gobby stuff or snail holes. I squeezed out the water, and added a spoonful of tinned tomato that was in the fridge. The dough has spread all about the tray. I put the spinach mix in a wide line down the middle and put some cut up feta and 2 half potatoes that were left over from saturday. About a half pack of feta ie 100g. Then carefully folded over the 2 sides of dough over the middle. Then put in the top of the oven at high heat (gas 8??). Then went to shower off the mud & sweat. Then I thought I could smell burning but it was just browning. I think it was in the oven 20 mins, I turned it over about 2/3 through. As I said, it works, it is very good.

Gooseberries, cream, shortbread

Ate out

Leftover fennel etc, with feta

Green lentils with chorizo, grilled cherry tomatoes, soybeans, potatoes

Colin's escaped this weekend: I have the Mountain Mayhem tomorrow

Today I ate: 2 cheese sandwiches, a huge potato with chilli, some oats and dried fruit, half a melon, a peach, a banana, a cake and a flapjack, another huge potato with curry, two or three salad sandwiches, some beef stew, bread and marmite. Whoar! I like bike racing

Today I ate: fried egg butty and baked beans, oats and dried fruit, the other half melon and a nectarine and a banana; a bacon butty; some ginger oatmeal cake, flapjack; another bacon butty; lentils and ratatouille.

Dinner: pea soup

Sausages, lentils, round lettuce with mustard dressing, potatoes with capers

Colin's back and we return to normal food

WR french onion soup

Meatballs, peppers & tomato sauce, tagliatelle, courgettes

Salad of lettuce, poached egg, new potatoes, ham, cherry tomatoes

Mango, melon, peach with orange flower water

Ate out

NCG carrot and coconut soup

Ciabatta, artichokes, redpeppers rocket

Simon and Amelia

Salad of watercress, mozzarella, caramelised oranges and pickled lemon

Pork burgers with lemongrass & chilli, peppers, cherry tomatoes, pak choi in Thai curry; rice

Strawberry and rosewater ice cream, strawberries, shortbread

Stinking Bishop

Lunch: pak choi with miso paste, rice

Dinner: Ate out

Lunch: Bulgar wheat with cucumber, feta, youghurt mint dill; tomatoes and harissa artichokes

Dinner: WR brie and tomato tarts

Rack of lamb with WR Lebanese pepper puree

Dinner: cos lettuce, eggs, potato

Cod with parma ham butter beans with porcini cream; fried potatoes

spag with tomato, artichoke, caperberries, olives etc; aubergine and tomato

prune and brandy ice cream