July 2011

Ate out

Thai Braz

Lunch: soba noodles with cabbage, carrot, oyster sauce

Dinner: John

Courgettes with barberries, sumac, pine kernels

Nice but I think I put in too much lemon juice.

Pork fillet, marinated and griled; quinoa with broad beans, watercress

Orange and cardamom ice cream,

2 eggs, 3 caradom pods, 2 tbs sugar(?), zest of 1.5 oranges, 7floz double cream (about). Made custard and left falours to infuse, then strained it. Added enough 0-fat yoghurt to make 15floz (4-5 floz). The mixture appeared to stick in the maker quite early so I threw in alittle Cointreau, then it didn't set so maybe I should have left it alone. I turfed it out and left in freexer a couple of hours, it was still a bit soft but ok. Good flavour. Made syrp out of the orange juuse and rest of the zest, and 2-3 tbs sugar, also some orgae flower water, strined this too. Toasted hazlenuts with a bit of sugar

Swaledale, Duchy corsnish brie

Lunch: spag with hare sauce

Dinner: quinoa and broan beans and the remaining sweetcorn fritters

gratin of celeriac, gorgonzola, mushrooms, rws salad

Lamb sausage, courgettes, ras sauce, couscous

Cherries, Kirsch, cream, lemon biscuits

Sweetcorn, chipotle and peanuts

Mackerel in blackberry vinegar, celeriac remoulade, beetroot, potatoes

WR lemon rasam

New potatoes, sweet potatoes, barberriese, pinoli, red onions, chilli; saffron mayo; braised lettuce

pasta with meatballs, pepper, chevre sauce, red onions

marinated anchvies on bruschette

ate out

Lunch: spag with basil, cream, tomatoes

Dinner: marinated anchovies, red onions in blackberry vinegar

Fillet steak with olive crust, peas, new potatoes

Lunch: cauliflower and onion curry, rice

Lamb sausage, mustard and cream sauce, peas, new potatoes

Mango

Then we went to Rob's party and ate a lot of nice nibbles

WR moroccan pastries

Pasta with gorgonzola, tomatoes, mushrooms; green beans

Salad of walnuts, watercress, radish, roast beetroot, gorgonzola dressing, bulghar wheat

Melon, rosewater

Salad of boring lettuce, chilli mayo; quinoa with peas, fried squash and smoked bacon, red onion, lime, chilli

Somehow all this took about an hour to cook

Mango, sauce of lime syrup, coconut; caramelised lime zest

the lime zest was supposed to be candied but i let the water boil dry..

Salad of things in the fridge: cauli, squash, beans etc with horseradish-soy-sesame oil

spag bol

Ate out

Namaste

Lunch: spag and walnut sauce

Dinner: fish soup

Sea bass, fried; sauce of tomatoes, saffron, new potatoes, beans, peas

Lunch: linguine with onions, anchovies, capers, olives, tomatoes

Dinner: Pea soup

Duck breasts, cherries in booze, salad, fried potatoes

risotto of squash and sage

Grilled peaches, cream, amaretti, creme de peche

Fish soup

BBQ lamb, 5-spice sauce, pakchoi, cucumber, spring onion, soba noodles

tortilla espanol, puy lentils, carrots braised in sherry vinegar, dill, olive oil

Summer pudding

Pea soup

Round courgettes stuffed with 2 sorts of couscous: hazlenuts and fried courgette, confit tomatoes. Lettuce.

these are nice

Ate out

Bras Blanc

Lunch: spag, fennel sauce

Dinner: Claire

roasted peppers, haricots tomatoes basil

Mushroom lasange, RWS salad

apricot ice cream, griled apricots, amaretti

2 eggs, 5flz cream 2 tbs sugar. 4 med apricots poched with 2tbs(?) sugar. The pureed. This stil wasnt sweet enough so 1-2 more tbs sugar, and 1 slug apricot brnady. Doesn set in the machine, tipped into freeze about 1-2 hours to go, then it was firm enogh. goes light and fluffy (custard set firm in the fridge). This was very good.

Lunch: leftover lasange, then bulghar with tomatoes and peppadew

Dinner: Fish stew (fennel, tomatoes, orange), bread, spinach

Cherries in Kirsch

pea soup

Thai curry of squash, mushrooms; rice

Fillet steak, red wine and horseradish sauce, gnocchi, broad beans

Apricot ice cream, grilled apricots etc

Sweet potato, tomato, peanut curry; chard and garlic; wild rice and basmati rice

Cherries, chocolate sauce, waffles

WR lowlife haddock, sweet potato, spinach soup

Pie of vine leaves, potato, onion, feta, olive, yog; chard and tomato puree

Ate out

Ty Mawr mansion near Aberaeron

Soba noodles, cauli, peas