october 2012

aubergines parmigiana, ciabatta, rocket

wr chocolate puddings

chorizo and beans tapas from WR

cod fish cakes, saffron and garlic mayonnaise, fried potatoes, spinach

fried corn cob, chilli butter

artichoke, eggs, olive, potato, salad

gratin of chicory, gorgonzola walnuts

WR beef and smoked pepper sausages, brown lentils, garlic mash

Ate out

yeh a weekend away at last ! Pale Hall

away

We went up the Bwlch y Groes

Dinner: butter beans, mushrooms and porcini, salad, bread

spag, peanut and artichoke, salad

cake, dried cherries, creme fraiche

chicken, peppers tomatoes, refritos, tortillas

raspberries etc

WR felafel, salad

risotto of beetroot, feta, hazlenuts; peas

chestnut and lentil soup

half onion, 4tbs red lentils, a wedge of bramley, half a vac-pac of cooked chestnuts, some veg stock

pork spare ribs, slow roasted with fennel, butter beans, savoy cabbage, bread

WR chimichangas, salad

mini cauli cheese, courgettes, rosti

Lunch: spag with courgettes, peas, creme fraiche

Dinner: Ate out

Purslane, with Michael and Mark. Cos Michael has gone. Then we went back to Michael's flat and stank it out with stinky cheese eg Stinking Bishop

Lunch: Spag with meatballs, tomatoes etc

Dinner: Diana and Martin, at Martin's

Mackerel escabeche, fennel in Pernod

recipe from the Sainsburys book - it is good, worth dping properly

Pollo al Jerez (Diana)

Flan

I did this and it worked, wow

more stinky cheese

then we looked at photos of Spain including the Alhambra which is fab and a film of Martin eating a chip.

slow-roast tomatoes, peppers, rocket salad, ciabatta

pancakes, sour cherries in something, cream

WR provencal fish soup

cabbage, chestnut, chorizo, fried potato

Chris

chestnut soup, walnuts caramelised with chilli and (i think) maple

as invented last week

lamb shanks, I think with the usual stuff, bulghar pilaff with sour cherries, chickpea and spinach

we had Ch Beaucastel with this

pear, custard, ginger cake

from Hugh F-W freebie in the newspaper

tomatoes

paella, courgettes

Ate out

81 The Prom

Lunch: spag, probably

then tracey went to the US and Colin had a big cabbage to get through

Lunch: spag with leeks and oyster mushrooms

Dinner: corn pancakes, harissa, salad

Squash roasted in yog-ginger-ras, fried leeks, rice pilaff with sour cherries and walnuts

Lunch: Ate out

The Elms with mum

Dinner: celeriac and potato fried, puy lentils, fresh PORCINI!

WR soemthing soup

aubergine, bacon, avocado, rocket, ciabatta

Halloumi, salad of red cabbage, beetroot, orange

into which some of the evil Gurkha chilli went

Squash pancake, wild rice, pak choi and spring onions

for the pancake, grated the half (hollow half) of the squash left over, mix with 2 eggs and 4oz flour and a bit of baking powder. it goes in the big frying pan, it is quite thick and maybe ended up even tho cooked through, a bit raw-flour flavour. nice and soft. worth trying thinner.

fried peppers and brie

veal chops, chorizo-wine-cream sauce, courgettes, potatoes