august 2011

Spag with peppers and chorizo, salad

YP beetroot soup

Mangalore curry with sweet potato, peas, mushrooms, rice

summer pudding, cream

Bulghar, barberries and something else, may have been carrots

Watercress, smoked bacon, beetroot in horseradish, walnuts, potatoes

Ate out

The Bell at Sapperton, with John

Garlic gazpacho

Olive and feta polenta cake, salad

Lunch: spag with cream, tinned cherry tomatoes, basil

Dinner: Lamb chops with slow-cooked garlic, tomatoes, olives, green beans, potatoes

Raspberries, cruchsed shortbread whipped cream and Kirsch

Lunch: Ate out

Methuen Arms, Corsham, with all the Champions

Dinner: Aubergine, bacon, avocado, rocket, ciabatta

Andy

Andy has read these food pages so we should have asked him to pick from the menu..

Roasted sweet potato wedges; peanut and chilli sauce; quinoa with tomato, shallot, chilli, coriander, garlic

Since the excuse for the get-together was looknig at photos of South America, at least one course has to be thematic.

Duck confit, borlotti beans in roasted garlic, salad, bread

... but this wasn't

Sloe gin and damson ice cream, roasted plums and damsons

2 eggs, 8floz cream, 4? tbs sugar, 2 tbs sloe gin, 4floz damson puree. Custard set firm! The the ice cream froze in the machine quite quickly, but i fished it out and it went ok in the freezer, about 3 hours in there. This was very good, very rich and somehow we got through the lot.

Yarg, Wensleydale, Keens cheddar, Tunworth

WR lowlife lemon rasam

WR saag gobi aloo, dhal, rice

beans on toast

mondays leftovers

onion crumble, green beans, salad

this used up the olive cake (which was a bit dry)

sweetcorn, avocado oil

Lambs kidneys, mushrooms, spinach, creme fraiche, linguine

Ate out

The Talbot at Knightwick, with mum

Lunch: Ate out

Malvern hills hotel. Then guess what we did in the Malverns!

Dinner: WR lobster cream soup

Sweet potato and gorgonzola gratin, beans

Lunch:Spag puttanesca

Dinner: duck breasts, olives and Cointreau

figs poached with ginger, creme fraiche, ginger biscuits

WR sweetcorn fritters, chutney, salad

Fish soup, bread, green beans in butter

Punjabi tomato curry (aubergines, potatoes) rice

Gu choc mousse and raspberry

Tomato salad with fried breadcrumbs, marjoram

Wedges of round courgette fried, sauce of sesame and bread, caramelised onions and barberries, bulghar

Ate out

le Champignon Sauvage. I had citrus mackerel and pig trotter, then pork belly, pisgs head carpaccio, fig sauce, choc and chicory root delice; Colin scallops and sesame caramel, venison with pears, cheesecake with salted caramel. Drank the Gevry Chambertin - stunning.

Tortilla of chard and onions, new potatoes

Strawbs in Cointreau, creme fraiche, shortbread

Lunch: Ivan

Ivan's pork pies and pate, salad, bread

We are horrible. Ivan brings us all this nice food and what do we do? We took Ivan up Sandy Lane and down the tramway.

Dinner:

salt cod, garlic, red peppers, potato in layers like a gratin but it didn't set like a gratin, salsa of tomatoes chilli shallot avocado oil, lime juice.

an experiment, I fantasised about how it should turn out but maybe it only sets to a creamy but firm texture if you have actual cream, it was nice flavour tho

Leg of lamb in vine leaves with barberries, chick peas; bulghar and peas

The lam got put in 3pm, we ate it about 7pm. I wrapped it in oads of leaves from our vine and potroasted at gas3, also barberries thrown in and garlic and a bit of water. Then we went cycling and we took Ivan up Sandy Lane on the way back, we are horrible but it is John's fault really for telling us about it.

Should have added more water to make more sauce, it reduced too much but it was really delicious, the lamb very juicy. Chickpeas (cooked) thrown in towards the end.

We had the last bottle of the d'Angludet with this -fab.

Anise ice cream, roasted plums with sesame

2 eggs, 8floz cream, 1 staranise ground, 2.5 tbs muscovado sugar, .5 tsp ginger, 1/4 cinammon. Make custard with spices and sugar, leave to cool and infuse then strain. The mixture froze quite quickly, within a couple of minutes, so I had to fish it out. A couple of hours in the freezer and it was perfect. Good flavour.

Lunch: Out

Farmers Guiting

Dinner: Pork pie

Hare with Papardelle, salad

Raspberries, strawbs, mulberries

Ivan's berries

Crab in cream and saffron sauce, courgettes, new potatoes

Strawbs, mulberries, cream

Ate Out

Jamies Italian, with Michael

Lamb, cabbage, soba noodles

something to use up cream..possibly plums

Mushrooms in red wine with gorgonzola; fried potatoes

Pannacotta flavoured with Cointreau

ate out

Tyn-y-Cornel hotel, Talyllyn. We did some nice rides.

Dhal, rice, cabbage

Tagine of pork balls, prunes, courgettes; couscous with pine kernels and salted lemon

Bara Brith, cream

The leftovers from the afternoon's feeding frenzy

WR sweet potato felafel, chutney

Tagliatelle with cream lemon parma ham olives; peas