Sept 2012

on holiday

Dinner: duck, olive and orange sauce, fried potatoes

WR chocolate cheesecake

Lunch: dhal and rice

Dinner: sweet potatoes, tomato and allspice and peanut sauce, quinoa with coconut

Fried bananas, orange curd sauce

sea bass, cream and sorrel sauce, green beans, new potatoes

poached figs, ginger, cream

fennel, tomatoes, feta, ciabatta

poached pears

maghreb carrot salad, fried walnuts, toast

squash in pomegranate molasses, fried; hummus sauce; watercress; bulghar

this was good. The pomegranate contributes the sharpness you need to balance the sweet squash

beetroot and carrot soup

black pudding, savoy cabbage, pearl barley

Ate out

Thai braz with John

Lunch: spag with walnut and garlic sauce, fried cauli

Dinner: beetroot and feta cake

this was thrown together but turned out really good. 7 oz plain flour with 3 tsp baking powder; 2 eggs, 4 floz olive oil, 2 medium-arge cooekd beetroot, grated, a few cubes of feta. Whisk oil with eggs, stir in flour then beet and cheese; turn into small loaf tin , bake 45 mins (about) at gas 5

chicken livers in allspice; squash ginger tahini puree, saffron risotto, green beans

the risotto didn't quite fit - i had intended rosti but one potato was bad. The livers you do for 5 mins. The squash was about 8-9oz unpeeled weight, this worked well, flavour a nice contrast. We had a good Georgian wine, got from WR.

Lunch: soba noodles with cabbage and cauli

this has nothing to do with food, but 'they' have done something to the nemesis root which is to fill in the path a bit. it should make it easier but right now it is too loose to get a grip. I had several goes, one of which pitched me down the side with an impressive pedal gouge in my shin.

Dinner: WR moroccan soup

rump steak with cream, walnut, pom sauce; broad beans, fried potatoes

aubergine, avocado, bacon, rocket, ciabatta

peaches, cream, soft amaretti

WR little empanadas

pappardelle, chicken liver ragu, courgettes

mackerel, radish-cauli-onion escabeche

Mushrooms, baked; cream and tarragon sauce, leeks, rosti

braised pork ossobuco with 5-spice, red cabbage, fried potatoes

peaches caramelised under the grill, pistachios, amaretto, cream

ate out

angora

Lunch:

then we went for a ride, last mtb ride before a week or more of rain.

Dinner: Claire

Goat cheese and squash tart, rms salad, bulghar pilaff with cherries

WR choc fudge cake, cherries in booze

then we looked at photos, inluding Claire's awesome fractal cross stitch

Lunch: lentils and cauli curry, aloo paratha

went and did the nemesis root in the morning then it rained

pork ossobuco, salad with radishes, cucumber, soba noodles

goat cheese, toast, pickled fig

NCG peanut and sweet potato soup

turkish fried potatoes and peppers

baby aubergines in spiced tomato sauce

avocado, bacon, rocket, ciabatta

spag with mint and walnut pesto

tart from sat, courgettes with pomegranate

Ate out

Zizzi, with Colin's branch cos of Phil leaving

leeks, chickpeas, olives, feta, bulghar

rather thrown together after we went to the pub with Michael

damsons, cream

actually with some sugar in

Lunch: spinach, chickpeas, tomato, polenta

Dinner: Ate out

Shanghai Nights, Bristol, with Phoenix and Pat

Lunch: Ate out

Talbot, with mum, gosh we are eating out a lot this week

Dinner: celeriac and gorgonzola gratin, green beans, ciabatta croutes

Raspberries, cointreau, biscuits, cream