july

Salad of pasta with parma ham

Poached apricots, yoghurt, amaretti

Dhal with cauli, mushrooms, rice

Ate out

Ate out

Sardines, couscous with tomato and pepper

Pak choi, oyster sauce, smoked nuts, noodles

Corsican fish soup (tin)

Meatballs, chilli sauce, sweetcorn, rice

YP Carrot fennel orange dill soup

Bighams Moroccan lamb, couscous, courgette

Morcilla, chickpeas, roasted pepper, chilli, tomatoes; potatoes

Lemon cheesecake

Corsican fish soup

Pork and kidney beans, cilantro; green beans rice

Salad of peas green beans little gem, yoghurt dressing, potatoes, fried bacon

Strawbs in balsamic, pepper

Lunch: spag with artichoke and smoked nuts

Mid-afternoon snack: Tracey went to Tim's SSP BBQ, tracey is a pig

Dinner: Chicken breasts in yog-harissa-ras-garlic; Italian mountain lentils, bread, WR chard and rocket salad

Strawbs, toasted brioche, cream

Lunch: Ate out

Roasted tomato bruschette, salad, stinking bish

lamb steaks, olive ice cream, red peppers, fried potato

Small amount of custard, half egg and 3 floz cream, 7 olives

WR peaches in syrup, cream, amaretti

Figatelle Pate, toast, salad leaves

Red pesto potatoes; fried aubergine, rocket

Pasta with chorizo and tomato, chilli; courgettes

Raspberries, amaretti, cream

Ate out

Quinoa, chorizo, broad beans; hummus; padron peppers and spring onions

rather nice

Pineapple and banana in coconut chilli lime leaves syrup

Lunch: spag with tomaotes cream garlic

Dinner: Chris Phillippa Peregrine and Sylvie

Watercress, bacon, creme fraiche

Pork tenderloin with rosemary and garlic in vine leaves, barbecued; roast peppers and fennel; sauce of hummus and pureed broad beans; new potatoes

This all goes very well.

Trifle of toasted brioche, strawbs, rosewater with custard

Custard was 2 large eggs, 2tbs vanilla sugar, 9floz thick double cream, also 1 leaf gelatine to help it set. I used 6 brioche finger-rolls and, er, about 1 1/3 large punnets of strawbs, Did 2 layers of each and squashed it so it was a bit more like a summer pudding.

Cornish brie and Hawes Ewe's wensleydale

Lunch: bulghar wheat, padron peppers and spring onions, tomato & hummus sauce; pork leftovers

Dinner: mussels, peas and lettuce & shallot, bread

Cherries in kirsch, shortbread, cream

MPW chicken orzo veg soup

middle eastern spiced potatoes with sultanas; green beans

Grilled aubergine slices, courgette and tomato, basil ice cream, potatoes

I made the basil ice cream with something like 3-4 floz of cream/milk and half an egg; I'm not all that sure as it ended up being a small amount. Some basil, yeah I don't know, 4 sprigs of it? Made custard last night and tore the basil into it. Some balck pepper too. Courgette, I used 1 medium courgette and 2 smallish tomatoes. Diced the courgette small and cooked on low heat in evoo, like for ratatouille. Then added diced tomato. I drained off the liquid and reduced it, and at some point a dash of balsamic ended up in it. Aubergine on the ridged grill, 4 slices each. These got assembled into towers with layers of some of the courgette. It was all remarkably good; contrasting and complementary flavours.

Pineapple and strawbs with ginger

Gazpacho

Salt cod fritters, stewed red pappers, hummus

NGS had some salt cod, I'd bought it ages ago. Soaked a piece for a couple of days, changing water a few times. Boiled some potat diced small. Poached the cod. Cooked some garlic in oil then in some milk, made a thick batter with half an egg, some flour and the garlic milk, flaked the cod and mixed this in with the potatoes. Fried in 4 fritters. Not sure if the dicing of the potatoes was the right thing, I just wanted a bit of textural interest. Anyhow it is nice and there will be more salt cod adventures to come. It is not at all too salty, by the way.

Sweetcorn fritters with tomato cilantro salsa

Tagliatelle with clams, chorizo, tomato, garlic, chilli; braised Little Gem.

Ate out

Lunch: Spag with clams, creme fraiche, garlic; salad

Dinner: burgers, gorgonzola sauce, rice, sugar snaps

Figs in red wine and cinnamon, cream/yog, shortbread

Lunch: Michael, Peter, Theresa, Miles, Fiona, Lydia, Richard, Katy, Mark, Karen, Freddie, Maggie, Jonathan, Dan

Peppadew with feta, tortillas, tapenade, hummus

Burgers; red pepper and chickpeas; peas, broad beans, round beans with yoghurt, mint, lemon; slow roast tomatoes; new potatoes; bread; salad leaves

Cookies (Theresa), brownies (Mark and Karen)

Keens cheddar, Camembert

Rain was forecast but held off until some time in the afternoon; its arrival turned the bbq into an extended drinking session, no bad thing really

Dinner: WR fish stew

Leftover special: yesterday's lunch things with some chilli added

Strawbs and brownies and cream

Foccacia with tomatoes, fennel, feta, olives; rws

I made a bread dough with 6oz flour and as much water as I could incorporate. 25 minutes "kneading" to develop the gluten. I only do this because it is tremendous fun. Went for a run (warm up then fast 30 mins then warm down). Sliced fennel thinly and fried, then made a sort of pizza shape with the dough, put the fennel and remains on sunday's tomatoes on top and baked for 20 minutes.

Apricots, cream, amaretti

Steak, wine and mustard sauce, green beans, new potatoes

Strawb frozen mousse

WR pate, toast

Chickpeas, chorizo, spinach, chilli, potatoes

ham; courgette and feta cakes; new potatoes

Rhubarb cake, cream/yoghurt