june 2010

Cabbage, carrot, ginger, oyster sauce, buckwheat and pumpkin noodles

New carrots braised in ginger cream sauce, new potatoes, salad of lettuce and cabbage, horseradish

Raspberries, choc chilli sauce, whipped cream

Sardines with lemon, lettuce with salted lemon dressing

Aubergine slices with red pesto, courgettes with mint leaves, new potatoes

ate out

Lunch: west arms llanarmon

Dinner: pale hall

Lunch: new inn llangynog

Dinner: couscous, fried apricot kernels, courgette, onion, tomato, red pepper

sweet potato in spices and yog, fried; cashew and onion sauce; spinach, basmati and wild rice

strawbs, sichuan pepper

Salad of grapefruit, orange, mint, radish with miso-wasabi dressing

salad of Chinese braised beef, cucumber, spring onions, pak choi, soba noodles

WR borek, salad, chutney

red peppers-tomato-chilli, fried aubergine, salad, ciabatta

asparagus, serrano ham

pork meatballs, chorizo, tomatoes, spag; savoy cabbage

WR cassoulet, green beans, bread

WR coconut lime ice cream, lemon biscuits

Lunch: pak choi, savoy cabbage, soba noodles

Dinner: Ate out

Venture In, Ombersley, with Mum

Lunch: spag, onions, anchovies

Dinner: rabbit saddle in Serrano ham, salad of little gem, cucumber, peas, broad beans, green beans; lemon and garlic mayo; bread

Pannacotta flavoured with rosemary, with strawbs in it.

Casserole of Rabbit legs, big shallots; Jersey Royals

Beetroot, grated and cooked; horseradish cream, rye bread toasted, lancashire cheese.

we're almost at the stage of wanting to eat raw horseradish in veg-sized quantities

Kidney beans in a sort of mole sauce; soured cream, tortillas; salad of shredded little gem, cherry tomatoes, cucmber, shallot, cilantro, lime juice and avocado oil

Sweetcorn ice cream and popcorn

this is from Annie Bell's book. the sweetcorn tastes like, well, sweet buttered popcorn. it was rather a faff for the small quantity I made, but it's very good and worth repeating

Marinated anchovies, ciabatta toast

Fish soup, bread..

Veal chops, cream..

WR raspberry jelly, cream, lemon biscuits

broc, anchovy sauce, pasta

I'm riding the Mayhem, so Colin's gone off to posh hotel

pasta, sandwiches, Cake, more cake, more cake, casserole, couscous

some sort of all-morning brunch of bacon, sausages , croissants..

Dinner: Chickpeas, tomatoes, bread;

Croissant and strawberries

Lamb shank in Indian spices, spinach with lemon and yog, rice

WR Raspberry jelly, cream

NCG melon gazpacho

Bighams fish cakes, fried potatoes, mange tout

Thai curries at Rolf's

Marinated anchovies, potato salad

something, red peppers and bamboo shoots in Pad-Thai sauce, rice

veal escalopes, cream, mushrooms, tagliatelle, courgettes

Cherry ice cream

Cherry flavour does't come through that much, maybe they don't work so well cold.

Lunch: curly pasta, chorizo, tomato, chilli, cream

Dinner: Party

Quite a lot of work, especially with the half-marathon I ran halfway through the cooking in the morning. I'd tried doing more elaborate food than previous years, and inviting fewer people, but a bit frustrating as quite a lot of people left early and we had some no-shows. Not sure whether I'll bother next year.

Bellinis

3 large peaches did enough for 2tpbs puree for each of 12 cocktails

Red peppers with cod brandade, sourdough with mushroom pate, grilled aubergine slices with balsamic

Pork fillet in vine leaves on the BBQ, courgettes with mint and marjoram, flageolet beans with garlic, lemon, preserved lemon; fennel with tomatoes and olives, new potatoes,

Did 4 fillets but only 2 1/2 got eaten. Most of the veg went. 5 courgettes, 12 oz flags, 5 fennel

Orange and lemon cheesecake, roasted peaches.

Nigel Slater's cheesecake recipe. I don't think our oven at gas 1 gets up to 140.

Dolcelatte, Grana Padano, Taleggio

Lunch: gazpacho, leftover veg

Salmon, RWS salad with soured cream dressing, cucumber, new potatoes

Leftover desserts

Leftover pork, rice with broad beans and thyme

Peach, strawbs, cream

Red pepper, courgettes, tomato, basil

Salad of watercress and some other leaves, bacon, potatoes

Bacon had been bought for the MM and taken there in the cool box, I think it stayed cool enough, but we'll see if it was really ok.

NCG golden tomato soup

Salad with fried sweet potatoes, red pepper and chilli, sesame and pumpkin seeds with Ras, brie; ciabatta