Update 11.11.14 – I didn’t win – BOO – but man, do I have some tasty dinners in the freezer from making this! DISCLAIMER: If the photos are slightly shaky, I apologise, but I broke my wrist on the 1st September, so it’s still healing, and my camera is a bit heavy! Dedicated to …
Tag: comfort food
CRUMPETS!
This is all entirely Pete Favelle’s fault. All of it. It started with this post over on Kavey Eats. I couldn’t get the things out of my head. I bought crumpet rings, but the horror tales of not being able to dislodge the crumpets put me off and I hid them away for a few …
Cattleman’s Smokehouse and Grill – Romford Marketplace
Yes. Romford. Not usually the place that you think of when you think of barbecue, but if this place keeps going, then I sincerely hope that will change. I haven’t been to Pitt Cue, it’s out of my ‘get there in a lunch break’ zone, as is Red Dog, and all the hipster-ish places that …
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Nigella’s Easy Almond Cake
It was Easter. I like Easter. It means that spring is here. Or might arrive soon anyway. Easter is an odd time for me, being half Cypriot, because the usual Greek things that happen usually involve family. LOTS of family. I don’t have that, so there’s not the impetus to do things that there used …
The Merry Monk–Isleham
I have failed in my blogging duties. Yes, I know. And I’m sorry. We first ate at The Merry Monk in February of 2013. I was deep in the throes of job hunting at the time, and not really concentrating on anything else because PANIC, so the blog post didn’t get written up. Nothing but …
Bramley Apple Almond Tart
No, I do not know why this is called a tart. It’s my mother in law’s recipe and that’s what she calls it, so tart it is. It’s one of our favourite puddings, and we always hope that she’ll have made it when we have lunch at their house. It started being made because pa-in-law …
Lentil and Sausage Stew
Thursday was meant to be a Visiting Person in Hospital night, but that had to be postponed, so cooking dinner needed to be done. A quick trek around Waitrose yielded lots of things on the reduced shelf, so I bought Caramelised Onion sausages, Unearthed’s lovely mini snack chorizo, celery, sage and smoked cubes of pancetta. …
Sunday Baking: Honey & Ginger Loaf
This is an ever evolving recipe or so it seems! Originally a Den Lepard one: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/20/dan-lepard-ginger-honey-cake-recipe then made by my lovely friend Stephanie, with necessary tweaks: http://procrastinationrecipes.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/honey-and-ginger-loaf/ and now by me, with MY necessary tweaks. We all have times when we run out of stuff, or go to make a recipe and find that what …
Necessity is The Mother of Invention…Carrot Houmous and Cinnamon Honey Chicken
I was browsing the food pages of the internet this week, as always, and came across what I thought sounded like a fabulous recipe. I’ve always got too many carrots, so I wanted to use them instead of watching them turn into sad representatives of food waste, virtually overnight. I am rapidly coming to the …
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Sunday Staple: Featherblade and red wine stew
I make stew rather a lot. It’s a nice easy dinner, and if you make enough, you have some for the next day and some for the freezer. I also love the smell of it cooking merrily away while I potter about for the rest of the day. The vegetable amounts are approximate. I used …
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