april 2011 |
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Friday 1.4 |
Ate out Brosh |
Saturday 2.4 |
Lunch: cabbage with szechwan stir fry sauce, rice noodles sauce was a bit sweet, it's from a packet Dinner: cauli in peanut sauce (allspice, chilli, tomato), quinoa with red peppers Sultanas, candied peel in Limnocello with cream and panadoro |
Sunday 3.3 |
Lunch: spag with saucisse and peas and cream we had been for a nice mtb ride but the weather was colder than we expected. We did lots of tricky things we hadn't been able to do before and we picked some wild garlic for dinner. Dinner: John Haricot and onion soup with wild garlic and spring onions I think about 6-8oz beans? 1 onion and a big bunch of garlic. I put in 2 chicken stock cubes and some of the veg powder. nice Smoked pork belly, red cabbage, potatoes At last I got round to using a smoker bag I'd got Mum to give us for xmas years ago. I did the pork for 4-5 hours by which time it is falling apart luciously. This was very good. Ras caramel ice cream, poached pears John detected turmeric, one of the lesser ingredients. I don't think he was all that keen but said it wasn't unpleasant. Cerney goat, Denhay cheddar, WR Duchy cornish brie |
Monday 4.4 |
red peppers olives goat cheese, basil; polenta cakes fried pear, peaches in booze, cream, biscuits |
Tuesday 5.4 |
Thai curry of sweet potatoes, makua puong, peas, funny mushrooms, jasmine rice Fru cheesecakes Honestly, why do they have 3 in a packet? This is hardly likely to promote marital harmony. But we are expert at dividing grub accurately. |
Wednesday 6.4 |
asparagus filo parcels of beetroot, goat cheese; watercress salad, potatoes Dinner was quite late because it was a fab fab day the first fab day of the year and Colin wanted to go mtb-ing after work. I tried to do a pesky tree root and fell off the hill. But the evening light was fantastic |
Thursday 7.4 |
Celeriac soup Beef bourgignon, red cabbage coleslaw, potatoes |
Friday 8.4 |
ate out Zizzi. one of us managed not to have the arancini |
Saturday 9.4 |
Lunch: couscous (T) spag (C) Dinner: Claire, Rachel, Andy haricot and onion soup with wild garlic pumpkin and chickpea tagine, courgettes, couscous caramel ice cream, pecan and date cake 5 tbs sugar, caramelised, about 350-400ml cream, 2 large eggs. good, nice texture. For the cake I used 6oz butter, 6 oz SRflour, 5 oz sugar, turns out a bit dry though cheeses as last week Then Rachel and Andy showed us photos of Greenland, utterly otherworldly |
Sunday 10.4 |
Lunch:couscous, red peppers, green salad we ate outside pork burgers, tomato red peper chilli goats cheese sauce, spinach, fried potatoes cake, ice cream, dates |
Monday 11.4 |
spag with peppers, courgettes etc; salad pears, sour cherries in booze, amaretti, cream |
Tuesday 12.4 |
pumpkin tagine, bulghar, harissa cake, dates, cream, wishky This has nothing to do with food but my private war with Leckhampton Hill is becoming increasingly vicious. I am slowly mastering the double tree root but the newly stony Cotswold way section caught me out and pitched me backwards onto a tree stump. I now have a lump on my back |
Wednesday 13.4 |
Saucisse and split pea soup A sort of foccacia with artichokes and peanuts; rocket and dried tomato salad This almost worked. I made a very wet dough last night, and today tipped it into a foil loaf-like dish, with artichokes etc on top. I used the top oven which I don't think gets to heat and it took 30 mins to get anywhere near cooked. I think i'll keep trying but maybe use a flatter tray and use the lower over, which makes for more like a pizza. I'm not really sure what I'm up to but sometimes this idea gets you a really open texture. Maybe best not to put too much on top. Could even try like a Tatin and do it upside down? |
Thursday 14.4 |
Thai curry of sweet potatoes peas aubergines, rice WR pineapple, mango, passion; cream |
Friday 15.4 |
Ate Out Shezan: we had onion bhaji, aloo tikki, jalfrezi and chilli masala lamb. The jalfrezi is hot |
Saturday 16.4 |
Lunch: linguine with artichoke and ham Dinner Peter O Asparagus, ham Osso buco with morels and cream, grilled bably leeks, wild garlic risotto We picked the wild garlic in Cranham woods, in the course of a cracking mtb ride in which we found some nice steps. We thought we'd give Peter all these English seasonal delicacies that he wouldn't ever get in the USA but no he says they have asparagus there and wild garlic and rhubarb and ice cream. Rhubarb ice cream I used 227ml double cream and 1 egg. The custard behaves better with double cream, it doesn't start to go all scrambly before you reach 67 degrees. I did about 7-8 sticks of pink rhubarb, grilled half of them and poached the rest with sugar ginger but no extra water, mixed this in with the custard. cheeses as before plus some more Cornish brie |
Sunday 17.4 |
Lunch: Ate out Mount Inn at Stanton yeh more fab climbs to do from here and we rode up some steps Dinner: Prawns and mushrooms with tamarind chilli coriander, rice Rhubarb, rhubarb ice cream, panodoro |
Monday 18.4 |
asparagus and ham fennel, tomtoes, olives, Pernod; ciabatta |
Tuesday 19.4 |
watercress, radish, orange, beetroot pork ossobuco, lentils, cbbage, mashed potato |
Wednesday 20.4 |
watercress, beetroot, pecans cabbage and ps-broc in oyster sauce, soba noodles |
Thursday 21.4 - Sunday 24.4 |
Ate out Rose and Crown Romaldkirk |
Monday 25.4 |
dhal and rice |
Tuesday 26.4 |
Caesar salad aubergine slices and sweet potato slices in gram batter fried, sauce of 5-spice, chilli, peanuts, onion, soba noodles |
Wednesday 27.4 |
Rocket, tomato, pine, parmesan salad potato and onion cakes, spinach with sour cherries, sauce of sesame and cashew This was rather tasty. I used 2/3 of an onion for the potato cakes and caramelised them a little (ie forgot about them) and I used a bit over half an egg to bind it together, left over from yesterday. The potato cakes were light and soft inside. |
Thursday 28.4 |
WR squash-filled pastries, rocket, chutney Lamb shank in red wine and mustard, pearl barley, Janet's broccoli Colin put a little more mustard into the sauce, barely detectable as mustard but enough to enhance the taste |
Friday 29.4 |
Lunch: salad of Jersey royals, radish, cos, garlic mayo Dinner: crab risotto, scallops, asparagus Strawbs, rosewater, vanilla sugar, panadoro, cream |
Saturday 30.4 |
Lunch: WR ricotta and spinach tortelini Dinner: ate out with Connie and Chas, and the Sign of the Angel, Lacock |
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