Last night was book club and we have just read White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (I loved it, the others weren’t so keen!). It was my turn to host so, as we try to do a meal connected to the book we have just read, the obvious choice was curry. Now I’m no curry expert [...]
Posts Tagged ‘tomatoes’
Indian Book night
Posted in dinner parties, tagged banana, chicken, chutney, curry, gordon ramsay, ice cream, jalfrezi, jamie oliver, pumpkins, rice, tomatoes on January 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
French Shopping
Posted in ingredients, tagged flour, france, galettes, gelatine, mustard, pancakes, salt, tomatoes, vanilla, vinegar on August 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We have just spent a relaxing week at P’s parents who live in the Department of Haute Vienne in Limousin just on the border with Poitou Charente about 3 hours inland from La Rochelle & the Ile de Ré. I always love a trip to the hypermarket when we stay with them and despite the [...]
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 [...]
three Super suppers
Posted in suppers, tagged allotment, asparagus, chicken, chorizo, courgettes, fennel, olives, onions, pasta sauce, peppers, pesto, puff pastry, rice, tarts, tomatoes on July 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Love Food Hate Waste? Well, I love nothing more than creating something from nothing and three recent suppers which started life with a rummage through the fridge have produced great results. Sweet Vegetable & Chorizo Stew 1 bulb fennel sliced into 1 cm pieces 1 red pepper sliced 1 yellow courgette sliced 1 green courgette [...]
Lazy Sunday
Posted in baking, bread, soups, tagged bread, cheese, greenhouse, peppers, pork, soup, tomatoes on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At this time of year, when the weather is foul, I really love nothing more than spending the day pottering in the kitchen. And what could be better to cook and eat than a piping hot bowl of soup, especially when it uses up all those bits and bobs of veggies that are lurking around [...]
Harvest moon
Posted in allotment, tagged allotment, apples, beans, beetroot, chillies, chioggia, courgettes, greenhouse, leeks, peppers, plum, ratatouille, soup, tomatoes on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was the Harvest Moon and despite the fact we are now in October, this weekend certainly seems to have lived up to this. Went apple picking at our local PYO on Friday. I always love this ritual that marks the passing of another season. The trees were absolutely laden and the coxes were [...]
An afternoon with sarah raven
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apples, cake, soup, tomatoes on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Used up some more tomatoes today and made a batch of tomato soup with the recipe from Sarah Raven’s Garden Cookbook (p268). A very simple mixture of sweated onions, tomatoes, sherry & basil; cooked, then blitzed and sieved. Smelt beautiful and will have to be eaten not frozen as both my freezers are now officially [...]
weekend wonders
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged allotment, potatoes, pumpkins, ratatouille, soup, tomatoes on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have had a nice lazy weekend which has left lots of time for gardening and cooking. This afternoon we all went to the allotment for a couple of hours and cleared away the sweetcorn and pumpkins to make room for a manure delivery (hopefully). I have one area of the allotment which isn’t fenced [...]
you say Tomato, I say Tomayto
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bread, pasta sauce, tomatoes on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
OK, so last night’s bread wasn’t a huge success, or as H put it when I asked how his lunch had been: “well the roll was a little hard, a bit like a brick actually” – quite an impressive simile for a six year old! I gamely had some of the unleavened bread for [...]
