july 2010

NCG Melon gazpacho

Duck breasts, cherry sauce, fried potatoes, rocket

Ate out

Angora, with Mark M.

Lunch: tabbouleh

Dinner: Fillet steak with olive crust, olive oil mash, broad beans

Fennel ice cream

Lunch: spag with basil cream and a little bacon

Dinner: Ate out

Prezzo, Gloucester, with John and Michael. Because we were going to the Jan Garbarek/ Hilliard concert in the Cathedral (which was really good).

Chilled Pea soup

Haddock, red peppers, chorizo, cherry tomatoes, chilli, fried potatoes

Ate out

Everest, with a crowd from work : Mark M, Mary, Michael, Tom, Jason, Dan S, Mark S, Richard S.

Cucumber and yoghurt soup

Risotto of fennel, dolcelatte, red oinion

Pea soup

Veal escalope, sherry mushroom cream sauce, courgettes, ravioli of ricotta and rocket

ate out

Chateau de Cavanac, cassoulet/confit of duck

Lunch: spag, tomatoes, chilli

Dinner: Pate aux trois poivres, toast

Cod with Aubergine/pepper sauce (from a jar), olives; salad, potatoes

Lunch: Quiche, pizzette, and a cheese sandwich

Dinner: Salad with walnuts, couscous with merguez and courgettes

Peaches and fromage blanc

Lunch: ravioli with Roquefort and walnuts, salad with tomatoes

Dinner: Pate and toast with apricots, caramel, chilli

a sort of omelette with courgettes, red onion, eggs and fromage blanc; potatoes

Lunch: coucous, then at the Refuge, cheese sandwich, salad, apricot tart.

Dinner: Catalan sausage, flageolets and red onion, frisee and fennel salad, potatoes

Apricots and fromage blanc

Lunch: capeletti, peppers/aubergine sauce, chilli

Dinner: salad of flageolets, frisee, tomatoes

Catalan meatballs with olives and tomatoes (from a jar), fine green beans, potatoes

Couscous and tomato; fennel, onion, tomato puree, olives

Ate outLe Cortal, Vernet

Sandwiches and salad at Els Cortalets

Dinner: Salad of flageolets

BBQ'd aubergine slices, redpepper/aubergine sauce, frisee, potatoes

Lunch: Ate out

Dinner: Soupe de Poissons (jar)

Gnocchi, mushrooms, salad

Lunch: Spag, smoked lardons, chilli, creme fraiche, tomato puree

Dinner: salad with marinated anchovies.

Steak with black pepper, red peppers, onion, tomato, garlic; potatoes

local cow cheese

raspberry tart

11's couscous

Lunch : spag, marinated anchovies, olives, onion

Dinner: Fish soup

Aubergines parmigiana, bread

11's: almond tarts, pain au choc

Lunch: gnocchi, walnut, garlic, parmesan sauce

Dinner: Chicken with lavender pine kernels, creme fraiche; little gem and lardons; potatoes

Peaches, creme/fromage blanc, almond biscuits

Lunch: spag with peppers/auergine sauce, chilli, olives; salad of tomatoes and pesto

Dinner: anchovies stewed onions on toast

Red pepper stuffed with potatoes and pesto; tomatoes, garlic, wild oregano, breadcrumbs, parmesan

11's couscous

Lunch: Ate out Prats de Mollo. Salads, spag bolo

Dinner: chillies stuffed with bacon, tomato, onion

Duck breast with a peach cooked in rosé wine, chicory, fried potatoes

Lunch: gnocchi, olives. chilli, pesto

Gratin of little gem, onion. chicory, cream, lardons, parmesan; gnocchi

Apricots, creme fraiche, almond biscuits.

Lunch: a very large tub of couscous

Dinner: Ate out

Chateau de Cavanac. Foie gras, snails, veal kidney, choc fondant, chevre

Lunch: an overpriced snadwich at Toulouse airport

Dinner: pak choi and broc with oyster sauce, rice

Bighams moroccan lamb, courgettes, couscous

Raspberries, cream, shortbread

NCG smoked haddock soup

steak, horseradish and red wine sauce, green beans, boiled new potatoes

Squash in ras and yog, fried; fried hallomi, watercress; pitta, green lentils.

Strawberries with balsamic and black pepper; cream, shortbread

Garlic gazpacho

about half a head of garlic, boiled, plus a clove raw. Some aprocot kernels, blanched, blended in. Garlic not very subtle but kernels give a nice taste.

WR ricotta and spinach ravioli, lemon and cream sauce, poppy seeds; round lettuce

neither was this subtle. I used all the zest and half the juice of the lemon. maybe a bit much

Dinner: Ate out

Brosh

Lunch: Soba noodles with pak choi, cauli, broc, miso

Dinner: Adey's Toulouse sausages, salad of cos, green beans, new potatoes

Brown bread ice cream, roasted plums