November 2011
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Monday dinner: Sausages, courgettes, lentils,...
A quick, low-effort dinner tonight, based on a Stone Soup recipe.
Fry sausages in a bit of olive oil in a frying pan until brown on all sides. Pour off most of the fat. Pile the sausages up at the side of the pan, and add chopped courgette in the space cleared; sauté these until they take on a brown colour from the sausage fat. Add some pre-made tomato sauce (I used Loyd Grossman’s...
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[bob cooks] Sunday dinner: Beef, potatoes, green...
I pointed out to bob that the last entry under the bob cooks tag was nearly five months ago, and his fans would be missing him. So last night he made dinner: griddled steak, home-made oven chips, and steamed green beans and baby carrots. I picked some winter purslane from the garden to go with it.
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Friday dinner: Aubergines, courgettes, leeks,...
Aubergine and courgette stew. Sauté finely-chopped onion in olive oil until soft, add chopped garlic, cook for a couple of minutes longer. Add chopped aubergine (large or small dice, up to you) along with a jar of tomato-based pasta sauce and cook until the aubergines are about half-done. Add chopped courgettes (make them similar size to the aubergine pieces) and cook until completely done. ...
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Sunday dinner: Cauliflower, pine nuts, giant...
Caramelised cauliflower with giant couscous.
1. Slice a head of cauliflower thickly, toss it with some olive oil, spread it out in a roasting tin, and cook it in the oven (around Gas Mark 5/190ºC/375ºF) for an hour or so, stirring every 20 minutes.
2. Toast some pine nuts.
3. Cook some giant couscous in your preferred fashion — I sauté it in some olive oil then add veg stock (made with Touch...
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Saturday dinner: Aubergines, glass noodles, kelp,...
Fish-fragrant aubergine.
Ants climbing a tree.
Spicy shredded kelp. From a packet.
Jasmine rice. Done in the rice cooker.
I haven’t been cooking much recently because there’s a leak under my kitchen sink. Sigh.
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Wednesday dinner: Pork, cucumber, greens,...
Chinese dinner with a couple of friends.
Red-cooked pork (紅燒肉).
Cucumber with garlic (拍黃瓜).
Water spinach with fermented beancurd (腐乳炒通菜).
Jellyfish salad (涼拌海蜇). (Instant, from a packet.)
Served with jasmine rice done in the rice cooker.
