august 2012

polenta cakes with olives; fennel, red pepper, tomato

Ragstone goat cheese, pickled figs

Lovage and potato soup

Filo parcels of celeriac, demi-sec tomatoes, ..

Ate out

Marinades

Lunch: Ate out

Gumball with Connie and Chas

salad of lettuce, fine beans, parma ham, croutons, parmesan

then we went to Will and Alicia's housewarming party

Lunch: sambar, onions, squash, peas; rice

Dinner: gratin of celeriac, potato, gorgonzola; pea shoots

Cherries, Kirsch, cream, amaretti

potatoes in garlic, peashoots

this was a direct steal from what we had at Marinades. you don't need all that garlic, but by, is it garlicky

lentils with chorizo and demisec tomatoes, spinach, bread

hummus, pitta, olives

lamb legsteaks, ras; baba ganoush, fine beans, potatoes

sweetcorn fritters, radish and spring onion

fried sweet potatoes, curry sauce with allspice, black pepper, thyme, peanut

cucumber and almond gazpacho

clams and ham, spag; lettuce salad

feta and walnut cake, carrots and garlic roasted with rosemary; chard onions kalonji

an experiment.. 1 egg, 5oz flour, 1/2tsp baking powder, 4floz olive oil. A mouldy piece of feta and some olives. Whisked egg and oil, stirred in flour, a bit dense so some milk went in as well, then into a small squarish tin, baked at gas 5 for dunno 30-40 mins? I was also roasting the carrots. It turned out very nice.

pave, cream

Lunch: Ate out The Old passage, Arlingham, with Diana and Martin

we rode there via every hill we could cram in then Colin had a sleep and we rode back via all the other hills

Dinner: spag with chard

(Colin not so keen on chard though)

lunch: spag with radicchio

crab and asparagus risotto

WR/HB lobster bisque

oven baked tomatoes with garlic; peppers and chilli; rocket, ciabatta

figs ginger

sweet potato and beetroot with ras; couscous

raspberries cream amaretti

lovage and potato soup

mushrooms porcini spinach ham cream; gnocchi

Ate out

Champignon Sauvage with John. I had kid canneloni, venison wth nastursiu millet; Colin had lamb, parsnips, cockles. We talked about .. cycling (but at least refrained from spreading maps of Bormio on the table)

Lunch: clams, chorizo, spag

Dinner: Ate out

Curry Corner with Claire

Lunch: salt cod potato pancakes, roasted pepper with tomatoes and chilli, bruschette, lettuce

the freezer is on the blink so we're eating up what we can

Dinner: pitta with broad beans, walnut and mint tarator

Rump steak, wine sauce, potatoes, peas, lettuce

filo parcels with courgettes, demisec tomatoes, ginger; potatoes

plums, blackcurrants, blackberry and apple; cream, amaretti

puff pastry tart with leeks, olives, ricotta; potatoes with roasted garlic

blackberries, cream, toasted oatmeal

felafel, celeriac and cabbage coleslaw

mushrooms (portabello and shiitake) with pearl barley, green beans

Ate out

Morans

Lunch: macaroni, broc and cauli, gorgonzola sauce

Dinner: Duck confit, haricots, walunt bread, salad

sticky toffee pudding, wishky sauce

Lunch: Ate out

The Talbot, with mum

Dinner: moussaka, salad

but without lamb

Ginger parsnip soup

Fried halloumi, peppers, chilli, potatoes with lemon; rocket

goats cheese, beetroot, hazlenuts on toast

WR cheesecake

pasta with guineau fowl, leeks, porcini, truffle oil

mango, pineapple, passion fruit with rum and mango liqueur, chilli, ginger biscuits