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Monday 1.12 |
Hummus (homemade) and pitta WR ham hock and leek parcels, green beans, new potatoes |
Tuesday 2.12 |
WR lobster bisque Crab and funny mushrooms in a sort of Thai sauce; rice and peas |
Wednesday 3.12 |
Venison, red cabbage, fried potatoes Grilled persimmon, rice pudding with orange peel and candied lemon peel |
Thursday 4.12 |
Tartines of peppers and dried tomatoes and chevre; saute fennel, olives, flageolet beans Pear and dried fruits poached in rum, with marzipan |
Friday 5.12 |
Ate out |
Saturday 6.12 |
Ate out Winter is the new summer so we went away for the weekend |
Sunday 7.12 |
Dinner: Sauteed squash, chevre, salad, quinoa |
Monday 8.12 |
Squash, lentil, walnut soup with fried pumpkin seeds and pumpkinseed oil Lamb sausages, flageolet beans, salad, potatoes |
Tuesday 9.12 |
NCG winter veg soup of some sort WR Keralan lamb curry, channa dhal, rice |
Wednesday 10.12 |
Beefburgers, sauce of tomato, mushrooms, cream, horesradish, salad, gnocchi Pears, pistachios, amaretti, Poire Williams |
Thursday 11.12 |
WR ham and wild mushroom tarts, rocket Towers of aubergine, peppers, mozzarella, basil with tomatoes, ciabatta, rocket |
Friday 12.10 |
Parsnip, lentil curry soup Bratwust, sauerkraut, parsley and garlic mash |
Saturday 13.12 |
Lunch: spag with red peppers Dinner: salad with chevre croutes and chilli jelly Wood pigeon breasts, sauce of Lapsang Souchon and Whisky; beluga lentils, cauli cheese with braised garlic, barley The sauce had an intriguing rich smokiness without being overpowering. The whishy was a good one, Caol Isla, I think but I can't be arsed right now to go down to the kitchen to find out for sure. We had a bottle of the Patache d'Aux, which is excellent right now. |
Sunday 14.12 |
Lunch: spag with sauce of the pigeon carcass and leg meat, with saffron, almond, ginger Dinner: Confit of duck, watercress, baby potatoes Pear with caramel sauce, croissants .. which Waitrose were trying to get rid of. The caramel sauce is a cautionary tale. I made caramel and I was going to put cream in it to make a sauce but used milk instead. This does not work in an interestingly horrible way. The milk separates and you get a cheesy pong. The liquid was still usable. |
Monday 15.12 |
Shitake mushrooms and winter cabbage in garlic, ginger, chilli, mirin sauce, fried cashews, soba noodles Colin has a cold and I had a buffet lunch thing at work at which I ate too much but the food was nice |
Tuesday 16.12 |
Lamb sausages, "tagine" of chickpeas, kabocha squash, cabbage; couscous flavoured with seed oil Pear with cream and ginger-cinnamon-rum sauce, crystallised ginger and some rather old and soft biscuits WR sell ripe pears in packs of 4, which is what Colin buys when he wants one or two ripe pears. Then it's a race to use up the others in varied enough ways |
Wednesday 17.12 |
Smoked salmon pieces, coucous, slated lemon, chilli, capers Venison steaks, spinach, Dauphinoise potatoes |
Thursday 18.12 |
Salad of avocado, aubergine, chorizo, rocket, ciabatta |
Friday 19.12 |
WR stilton and pear chutney tarts Spanish pork with chorizo and chickpeas, spinach, green beans, rice |
Saturday 20.12 |
Brakfast: smoked salmon and scrambled eggs Lunch: Russian pasta with Turkish red pepper sauce, red cabbage Dinner: pea pannacotta with bacon One of those little pudding bowls-ful of peas. Cooked a little shallot and garlic in butter, added peas and cooked in some water. Added a cube of stock. $ spoons of thick cream. Liqudised with (I think) water to make 8floz. A tiny drop of vanilla essence and of lemon juice. Set with 1.5 sheets gelatine. This is just right. Garnished with what the slugs have left of the mint in the garden. I think this is one of the highlights of the year The colour is, of course, a beautiful pea-green, and in making this I've got going round and round in my head Stravinsky's setting of the Owl and the Pussycat. It's better than all those dreadful Christmas pop singles. Roast Guinea fowl with chorizo and chestnut stuffing, cabbage, roast potatoes |
Sunday 21.12 |
Breakfast: salmon, bacon, potato Lunch: couscous with chickpeas and the Turkish stuff Tea: mulled wine and stollen Dinner: Black pudding, apple in caramel, red lentil puree G.fowl legs with braised chicory, baby red potatoes |
Monday 22.12 |
Cauli cheese Roast jerusalem artichokes, peanut-chilli-garlic sauce, green beans, quinoa This is not veggie because I used duck fat to roast the artis |
Tuesday 23.12 |
Roast squash in yoghurt, ginger, garlic; green beans, yoghurt and cream with shallot, garlic, dill, Turkish pepper puree, bulghar Date sponge puddings with cream, maple syrup, fried pecans |
Wednesday 24.12 |
Breakfast: pancake with maple and bacon Lunch: spag, G.fowl scraps, chorizo, tomato, cream Dinner: hake with porcini, chestnut veloute, spelt risotto This is from D E-M's "Essence" and it's lovely. I used half spelt and half barley, and also soaked the spelt overnight. It's still a bit chewy. Danzig Gold jelly This is a liqueur with flakes of gold leaf, perhaps it no longer exists because Colin says the EU has banned gold as a food additive. I sort of forgot about what the overall alcohol content of this jelly might end up as. |
Thursday 25.12 |
Lunch: Mum Smoked salmon, sauteed fennel, fennel seed, potato Roast pork loin, gravy, quince puree, chestnuts and bacon, sprouts with pine kernels and seed oil, carrots and cumin, roast potatoes Christmas pud, brandy sauce Stilton, Sharpham, Isis Dinner: watercress, cold pork, chutney; then cheese |
Friday 26.12 |
Lunch: Ate out Dinner: beetroot in pomegranate; lettuce with yoghurt and dill |
Saturday 27.12 |
Lunch: spelt and barley, sprouts and seed oil Dinner: smoked salmon, watercress, wasabi wasabi and watercress clash Roast onions, cream and bacon, baked Shetland potatoes Baked custard and quince puree |
Sunday 28.12 |
Lunch: Ate out Dinner: Diana and Martin Pumpkin, orange, saffron soup Recipe is from the Ottolenghi special in the newspaper - this is fab Pork, beluga lentils, cabbage, potatoes Chestnut pave Cheeses as before |
Monday 29.12 |
Dinner: pumpkin soup Pork as yesterday but with chorizo as well |
Tuesday 30.12 |
Lunch: Philippa and Mike's Dinner: grapefruit, orange, couscous, chilli, with fennel in olive oil the fennel lost. but it has been in the fridge needing to be used up Thai yellow curry with pepper, sweet potato, pak choi, chard, tomato, with rice The packet claimed this to be mild, so I added extra chilli...mistake |
Wednesday 31.12 |
Trout fillets, mushrooms in cream, chard with chorizo, potatoes Christmas pud |
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