My dinner was all planned for last night. There was parsley on the windowsill, cherry tomatoes in the veggie box, anchovies in the fridge and some juicy black olives in the cupboard all ready to be turned into a light and healthy pasta puttanesca. Yet as I drove home from work through the wind and rain I [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Craving
Posted in Food, Recipes on May 29, 2009 | 22 Comments »
Dandelions
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Excuse the silence. Very busy. Back soon. Until then, this is my entry for this week’s Daily Ritual event on Flickr. Weeding. As pretty as they are, plucking dandelions out of my garden is a daily event just now.
Strawberry Shortcake
Posted in Food, Recipes on May 22, 2009 | 16 Comments »
I finally got around to organising my recipe index the other night. Though it’s still a work in progress, I’m much happier now that the more than 150 (!!!!!) recipes are catalogued under various headings, from Starters to Veggie Mains. One thing that struck me whilst I was busy cutting and pasting links was the [...]
Daily Ritual # 1
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Watering the pea shoots. For Curious Bird’s Flickr project – Daily Rituals. Read about it here.
Sweetcorn and Green Pepper Fritters
Posted in Food, Recipes on May 19, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Quite often when I am making something a bit different for a weekend lunch D does his own thing and makes a sandwich for himself. He likes his sandwiches does my D. On many of these occasions we have sat opposite each other eating our respective lunches and I am consumed by jealousy. His roast beef [...]
Bluebell Sunday
Posted in Scotland on May 17, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Malt and Maple Loaf
Posted in Food, Recipes on May 16, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Mention “malt loaf” to a Brit and they will generally think of Soreen. Dense, dark and fudgy, Soreen is the kind of cake my nana used to have in her bread tin to eat alongside her afternoon coffee. It’s good stuff but it’s nothing like the tea-bread I’ve been making recently. Lighter, less chewy and [...]
Perfect Chicken Curry
Posted in Food, Recipes on May 12, 2009 | 12 Comments »
A bold title, don’t you think? Think I’m right though. The red pepper is optional but the freshly ground spices aren’t. Really. Perfect Chicken Curry (Based on an Atul Kotchhar recipe in The Observer Food Monthly – February 2009) (Serves 2) 1 tblspn ghee or vegetable oil 3 cardamom pods, seeds removed and shells discarded [...]
Proud
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10, 2009 | 20 Comments »
I have some lovely recipes to share with you all. There’s a moist malt loaf, perfect for toasting and slathering in butter. Then there’s an utterly perfect chicken curry, fragrant and warming and lick-your-plate tasty. And, finally, there’s those cute little sweetcorn and green pepper fritters I had for lunch yesterday that D kept trying to steal [...]
Basil Oil
Posted in Food, Recipes on May 6, 2009 | 14 Comments »
My windowsills are absolutely jam-packed with small plastic plant pots. Courgette seeds, peas, borlotti and runner beans are all germinating happily in the warmth, dreading the day that I send them out into the unprotected chill of the vegetable patch. Poor little babies. Bet they wish they were basil seeds instead. Being a Mediterranean herb, [...]
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