july 2012

Lunch: Ate out pub near Horsley

on a ride with rather too many 1:4 hills ur horrible

WR dolmades

moussaka, salad

pea soup

asparagus risotto

WR mexican bean rolls

pappardelle, artichokes, broad beans, bacon

Diana and Martin

Moroccan lamb with prunes, courgettes, couscous

strawberries, cream (Diana's)

Camembert, Taleggio, Gorgonzola (also Diana's)

Moussaka

Pears in red wine and choc sauce

Ate out

Thai Braz, with Phoenix and Pat

Lunch: Connie and Chas

sea bass, lemon-thyme-caper sauce, peas, new potatoes

Dinner: sweet potato gnocchi, walnut and sage sauce

11 oz potato and 4oz flour, just about right

Apricots, amaretti

Lunch: spag, olives and anchovies

Dinner: smoked fish, mint and wasabi

chickpeas and spinach, new potatoes

celeriac and potato fried, st augur sauce, spinach

pears, pistachios

chicken, beans, sweetcorn, chilli; avocado, tortillas

WR apricot and raspberry tart

carrot, orange, dill soup

spag bol, rws salad

chilli chicken; pak choi, carrot, pepper; rice

WR apricot and raspberry tart

Ate out

Storyteller

Lunch: soba noodles, pak choi, shitake mushrooms

Dinner: Roast mushrooms and celeriac wedges, borlotti beans with porcini/garlic puree; experimental bread

bread was 5 oz flour and 10 floz water; baked in the square tin. works, but maybe better to make it a bit less wet and more of it (as I've done before)

Lunch: Ate outpizza in Stratford, then a long ride home

Dinner: Guinea fowl with couscous, saffron, sundried tomatoes; roast potatoes, carrots

Filo cigars of St Agur and pistachios, chutney

sardines, salsa, sourdough toast

cabbage, chorizo, chestnuts, fried potatoes

spicy peanut and sweet potato soup

rendang curry of potatoes and mushrooms, rice

vine leaves stuffed with guinea fowl and walnuts, bulghar

didn't quite work - the parcels also had the remains of the couscous stuffing, which went a bit soggy

strawbs with black pepper, limoncello

WR mussels in garlic butter

salad of St Agur, walnuts, red onion in sherry vinegar, potatoes

sort of pizza with roast onions and squash (with chilli, rosemary), bacon, cream+lemon+yog; chard in olive oil.

lemon curd ice cream

I made the curd with 2 lemons, 2 eggs, zest of 1 lemon ('cos Colin had used the zest of one), not a huge amount of butter, 4-5 tbs sugar then 1tbs honey went in. Some cream but less than 5floz. Oh and some of the dreaded limoncello, It didn't really set enough, but fantastically lemony (Colin says very Traceyish)

Lunch: dhal, rice

Dinner: Ate out

Lumiere with Michael

Lunch: chard, bulghar

Dinner: with Phoenix and Pat

and we watched the last stage of the Tour - magic!

pea soup

Squash filo parcels, fried potatoes

prawns, avocado, tomatoes, chilli

Tilapa fillets, sri lanka curry, rice

this was the week it was summer, we went for a nearly 2 hour mtb ride after dinner. we were both defeated by nemesis but we did other stuff fine. everything's different because of all the rain

Beetroot, feta risotto

Pave, cream

salmon, courgette, peas, spring onion, lemon, cream, pappardelle

lemon ice cream, ginger and lemon cake

another ride but this time before dinner. Crippets has got impossible again and something funny has happened ot shab hill.

grapefruit, orange, mint couscous, feta

guinea fowl legs, padron peppers, quinoa

Lunch: ate out

The Falcon, Painswick, rode there with Ivan. Ivan describes our riding style as "relentless"

Dinner: Ivan and Chris

Ivan brought a 2004 Hermitage

Scallops, quinoa with lemon, chilli, mint; chargrilled peppers

Roast pork loin, chanterelle sauce, roast squash, pak choi, kalonji bread

Lavender and honey ice cream, apricots, pine kernels

this didn't set enough - Ivan says the honey does that

Tunworth ragstone, cotherstone amd three Ivan brought

Lunch: salad of watercress, 5-spice steak, chicory, potatoes in wasabi mayo

Dinner: butter beans, parma ham, porcini, and a puffball; griled leeks, potatoes

we found the puffball on Cleeve Hill

Bruschette of peppers, tomatoes, goat cheese

Veal chops, lovage and cream, potatoes

spag with aubergines, anchovies, pine kernels; rocket

Cherries, Kirsh, cream