may 2011

Lunch: salad of new potatoes, beetroot in cream, cos

Dinner: broccoli and sesame salad

Haddock roe, spinach in cream, toast

Colin's away so I'm making the most of it by eating stuff he doesn't like

Lunch: Spag with saucisse, peas, onion

A fine bank holiday. I delivered the killer blow to the double tree root, doing it in one clean sweep from the first bank. I had to - I had an audience of 2 mtb-ers coming down

Dinner: asparagus

sea-veg pasta, cockles, saucisse, spinach in cream

Salad of round lettuce, Jersey royals, gesiers, fried walnuts and pecans in balsamic

The gesiers were from the xmas goose, I'd gooked them in fat and froze them well out of the sight of Colin. They were tender and delicious

some leftover cake from the freezer

ackee, tomatoes, peanuts, onion, chipotle-allspice-thyme, rice

Many years ago we bought a tin of ackee. I have done the honorable thing and eaten it now. It is strange looking stuff, like lumps of lumpy scrambled egg, but tases all right. I sort of rode up Greenway Lane for the first time in the sense that every part of it was ridden. I stopped for breath a few times and twice stopped by being caught out, whatever the term is, I don't know, but restarted and did it right the second time.

xmas pud

Spag with pigeon ragu, salad

Ginger parkin, ginger in syrup, yoghurt

curried mustard leaves, dhal, rice

xmas pud

another partly successful ride on lecky hill, a few goes at the double root before getting it right, i finally did the sapling bank, but the cots way is now so dry and dusty you lose traction

Lunch: ate out

Wagon Wheel with mum Derek Jonathan Jude Jason Jamie it rained, I tried again at the tree root but everything was rubbish today because its slippery so I tried a few times but never managed enough speed to clear the first bit.

Dinner; pork belly, plum sauce,

Lunch: dhal and rice

Dinner: Duchy beetroot soup

Venison steak, red wine and orange sauce, sugar snaps, fried potatoes

Avocado, bacon, rocket ; ciabatta

Peaches, cream

WR risotto cake, spinach

Red peppers stuffed with goats cheese, spinach, hazlenuts; bruschette

Corn, peanut polenta soup

Kidney beans in chipotle sauce, rice, salad

salad of carrot radish sugar snaps spring onion, juice and chilli dressing

chinese chicken, mushrooms and shiitake and garlic, soba noodles

Ate out

Brosh, with Michael

Lunch: spag with tomatoes basil cream

Dinner: sea bass, wasabi and plum sauce, noodles

pineapple

Lunch: Spag with chevre, chilli red peppers, tomatoes

Dinner: Hare in cream with barberries, papparelle, beetroot, watercress

Lemon curd set yoghurts, strawberries

spag with lemon olives parma ham cream

strawbs, elderflower cordial, cream

YP beetroot soup

salad of rocket, sweet potato, peppers, chilli, sesame, Ardrahan; ciabatta

Oriental salad: mango, watercress, grapefruit, dressing with tons of oriental stuff

Burgers, harissa, cream, fried potatoes, watercress

Haricot and onion soup, parma ham

Courgette and feta cakes, fried potatoes

Ate out marinades

Lunch: spag with garden herbs

Dinner: Toulouse sausages, Jersey royals, green salad

Mango

Lunch: Mark, Mary, Mary's bump, Don, Karen, Peter, Michael, Chris, Coleen, Owen, Chloe Richard

Hummus, olives, bread; lamb, ratatouille, flageolet beans, roasted tomatoes, Jersy royals

fruit salad (chris and Coleen) A nice cake (Mary and Mark)

I did 2 legs of lamb, rather a lot but 1 would not have been enough. A 500g pack of beans, quite a lot left; rat was 5 courgettes 3 aubergines 3 peppers, again quite a lot left; 3 small loaves of bread, about 1.5kg potatoes, a few left. Did about 8 roasted tomatoes, these all went.

Dinner: leftover lamb etc, strawbs

Couscous with the ratatouille, harissa

Cake, strawbs, cream

gazpacho

Pork burgers, cream onion green peppercorn sauce, flag beans, Jerseys

bulghar, pomegranate, mint and thyme, feta, fried pistachios and hazlenuts

melon and rose water

Lamb, red onion and pomegranate, beans, potatoes

Mary's cake, blackberries, blackcurrants, pomegranate, cream

Ate out

On holiday