may 2010 |
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Saturday 1.5 |
Lunch: Soba noodles, cashew and chilli sauce, white and pointy cabbage cabbage and more cabbage Dinner: Melanzane Parmigiana Risotto with smoked chicken, mushrooms; rocket |
Sunday 2.5 |
Lunch: courgettes in olive oil, curly pasta Dinner: scallops, red lentils with chilli, tomato, avocado oil, cilantro Rack of lamb with yog and Indian spices; potatoes in olive oil, aubergine fried with tomato, ginger, chilli |
Monday 3.5 |
Lunch: polenta and sweetcorn cakes, fried; sauce of onion, tomato, Mexican spices G Fowl, stuffing of bread, black pud, apple; roast cauli and roast potatoes; gravy. I made an attempt to get the skin crispy eg by sprinkling flour, salt, but if you turn the fowl upside down at the end so as to make it juicy, the does for the crispiness. So the breasts got a blast under the grill at the end. Not quite enough, though Colin's may have worked better than my half. Roast cauli seems to be in fashion. I blanched it for 2 mins then dried out in low oven/top oven, then doused in oil-chilli-fenugreek. Roasted for 15 mins. Nice. Rosewater custards, apricots and pistachios 1 egg, 1.5 tbs honey, a little cream, some milk, 1 tbs rosewater. 1.5 sheets gelatine. Make custard. Cream was about 1/4 of a small pot. Make liquid up to 10floz with milk. Dissolve gelatine etc. I did this early afternoon. It hadn't set convincingly by 630 so it got a 10 min spell in the freezer. When it's turned out it was soft but holding together just about. So maybe try 2 leaves next time. Flavour was just right. |
Tuesday 4.5 |
Mushroom soup with fried smoked chicken made with a lot of mushrooms and a few porcini Salad of asparagus, potatoes, lettuce, curry mayo |
Wednesday 5.5 |
G fowl legs, spiced red cabbage, potatoes Parkin, rum and ginger, cream and yog |
Thursday 6.5 |
Sardines, red cabbage coleslaw Paella with chorizo, morcilla, peas, mushrooms |
Friday 7.5 |
Cauli bread pudding, potatoes, salad I'd wondered about trying a savoury bread pudding as a less rich version of a flan. There's a recipe in the old Sainsbury Med. book for a fishy bread-and-butter pudding. We had half a cauli leftover from last weekend. I soaked about 1 thick slice of white bread in milk. I boiled the chunky stem parts in milk and liquidised it all. And softened some onion and garlic. Boiled the florets in milk. with some kalonji seeds. All except the florets liquidized, with an egg. Butter a small loaf tin then bung it all in. Thougt it still looked a bit liquid so I made some more breadcrumbs with some parmesan too and chucked this on the top. Then I think it got about 30 mins in the oven. It did set to a soft texture, and it was nice, maybe a bit like nursery food, that is, rather a bland texture. Rhubarb crumble, cream |
Saturday 8.5 |
Lunch: spag with g fowl remains, fried breadcrumbs Dinner: Ate out Namaste, with Claire |
Sunday 9.5 |
Lunch: Spag with lamb ragu Dinner: John Risotto with asparagus and ramsons Pork ossobuco, butter beans, baby leeks and morels, potatoes Gorse pannacotta, toasted coconut with sugar Mixture of double cream, single (5floz) milk, to 15 floz, Bagful of gorse flowers, dried in airing cupborad, 3 tbs sugar, 2.75 leaves gel. Simmered cream etc with flowers 5 mins, leave to infuse. Liquid 450ml at end. Set is just right, wobbly but just firm enough. Flavour, interesting, a little bit tannic like tea. |
Monday 10.5 |
Polenta slices with sundried tomato; sauce of cream and nutton mushrooms, spinach Pears sliced and fried, almonds, cream with Poire W, amaretti |
Tuesday 11.5 |
Chilled soup of cucumber, radish, horseradish, yog, mint, dill Pork ossobuco, beans, braised chicory, fried potatoes |
Wednesday 12.5 |
YP tomato and Wensleydale soup Mushrooms in cream, parma ham, fried potatoes, cos lettuce |
Thursday 13.5 |
Fillet steak, horesradish cream tomato sauce, new potatoes, co lettuce raspberries, framboise, cream, shortbread |
Friday 14.5 |
Ate out Brosh |
Saturday 15.5 |
Lunch: courgettes in toasted seed oil, bulghar with harissa and yog Dinner: Avocado, tomtoes chilli cilantro Rack of lamb with red pepper gunge; roast potatoes, green beans |
Sunday 16.5 |
Lunch: spag with walnut and sage Dinner: Rabbit saddle, stuffing of rabbit, wild garlic, morel, parmesan, breadcrumbs; wrapped in Parma ham; puy lentils with more garlic, gravy, boiled potatoes. I also wrapped it in a spring roll wrapper but this went all soft in the foil so a bit pointless. It got about 15 mins in the oven which maybe was a bit much. Good flavour. The wild garlic entailed the usual training ride flog but I was a bit tired and also it threw it down. Lemon curd ide cream Made lemon curd with 1 egg and 1 lemon 2 tbs sugar, and loads of black pepper. Most of a small tub of single cream. It froze too quickly in the glacier so I had to scrape it about, but it turned out perfectly fine, with a very good flavour. |
Monday 17.5 |
Thai curry of porkballs, red pepper, funny mushrooms; pak choi, rice WR pineapple, mango, passion with white rum, dried coconut, angostura |
Tuesday 18.5 |
Onions, anchovies, mashed potato with parmesan; green beans WR choc orange tarts |
Wednesday 19.5 |
Carrot and tarragon soup Rabbit legs braised with lavender, sping greens, mashed potato |
Thursday 20.5 |
Smoked trout, bacon, round lettuce, new potatoes melon and lemon balm fool |
Friday 21.5 |
tagliatelle with aspargus, peas, bacon, cream melon in ras cream |
Saturday 22.5 | Lunch: pumpkin and buckwheat noodels, spring greens, pepper, chilli, sichwan pepper oyster sauce. Dinner: Tuna, cilantro, toamtoes-peppers ginger chilli, cos salad with anchovy oil, new potatoes WR coconut and lime ice cream, lemon biscuits |
Sunday 23.5 | Lunch: Bristol airport Lunch at Bristol airport Dinner: meaty stuff in Prague |
Monday 24.5 |
Lunch: Kabul restaurant, Prague. Dinner: More meaty stuff and potato dumpings for pud, Prague |
Tuesday 25.5 |
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Wednesday 26.8 |
Lunch: Quesadillas in the Mexican place in Kutna Hora. Dinner: Moravian place in Olomouc. |
Thursday 27.5 |
Lucnh: pasta in a place on the namesti in Kromerice. Dinner: chinese place in Olomouc |
Friday 28.5 |
Sarka and Ivans wedding |
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