Continuing on our meat free odyssey, tonight we set sail across the Atlantic and headed for Mexico, courtesy of Thomasina Miers and her smokey stuffed peppers. Since Sainsbury’s delivered very small peppers, I stretched things by using 3 gorgeous dinky Baby Bear squash from last year’s allotment crop and it was hard to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘mango’
Hot, hot, hot!!
Posted in cakes, suppers, tagged allotment, cake, chillies, coffee, goats cheese, mango, peppers, potatoes, pumpkins, thomasina miers on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
a Mexican evening
Posted in dinner parties, tagged almond, cheesecake, chicken, chili, chorizo, corn, courgettes, cous cous, feta, fish, mango, masa harina, mexican, mint, mole, radish, rice, salsa, tacos, thomasina miers, tomatoes, wahaca on July 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To celebrate our lovely new kitchen and dining room, we had 8 of our most lovely friends round for a Mexican feast! Last year I had been to London with E for a day’s shopping and we had chanced upon past Masterchef winner Thomasina Miers’ restaurant Wahaca in Covent Garden. We had the most amazing [...]
Something on the side
Posted in oriental, tagged apples, chutney, mango, mint, yogurt on March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At a recent girl’s night, my friend cooked curry so I volunteered to take along some chutneys. I had a stock of home made mango chutney already and added to this with cucumber raita and mint chutney. The mint chutney is something we always get in a dinky little pot from our favourite Indian [...]
Nutters for Chutters
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apples, chutney, mango, plum, soup, sweetcorn on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Had a bit of a chutney making session this week with mixed results. The first batch was plum and apple using a recipe from Sarah Raven’s Garden cookbook. Smelt wonderful and consistency was good. The taste of course is rather a wait and see until it has developed some more but I’m looking forward to [...]
