I went to Asda – I hate it, but I needed some fizzy water and some shampoo, and some wafer thin meat for the cats. I shouldn’t go round the aisles, really; it just makes me cross, and astonished. I can understand people buying a cake – hell, I’ve done it myself. I can understand…
Month: September 2008
making good use …
… of the oven. I’m trying to cook in a different style – more on the hob, and less lighting of the big oven unless I can use it for more than one thing. I have a decent oven in the microwave, so I use that more now as well. We were supposed to be…
fusion risotto
using up: cold roast duck, 1/4 tin coconut milk Now, this really was quite barking, and I wasn’t at all sure it would work, but nothing ventured, etc. As I said, there was more duck left on the carcass than we thought, so risotto seemed appropriate. Basic rule of risotto in this house is 5…
spring greens in coconut milk
using up: spring greens This is a really simple and easy dish, and vegan to boot, which is always useful to have in your arsenal of recipes. Put on some rice to cook – we had basmati, with a lemon quartered into it to give it a nice flavour. Finely chop some garlic and a…
duck surprise*
It seems daft to tell you how to make a stir fry – you all know how to make a stir fry, surely?! But they are great ways of Using Things Up, so I do try to write them up.
We bought an organic duck on Sunday at the farm shop at Puxton Park – it could not be described as cheap, and I know that there’s not much eating on a duck, but this one cost thirteen quid, and did us one roast meal, and some scrapeens (Irish word). I’ve boiled up the carcass to make soup, and the cats finished off the very bitty bits, but even so …
sausage supper
using up: polish sausage Pete is very fond of kabanos sossidge for his luncheon, which we buy in bulk from Costco. However, the trip before last, they had no kabanos (and no Beurre Isigny either, which was a bit of a blow), so he bought a few packs of sausage from one of the Polish…
Old-fashioned food
[no photo] using up: some very tired cabbage. We fancied sossidges last night; we usually have these either with mash and onion gravy, or with fried spuds and baked beans. But as there was half a cabbage that needed eating … We boiled some spuds, and steamed the cabbage above it. Roughly mashed them together,…
mushroom, garlic and cream sauce
Using up: mushrooms, cream We popped into Bristol on Wednesday to buy my iPhone (bounce!), and found that the farmers’ market was on. Bristol is really badly served for food markets; this one is nice, but we work at home and so it’s not easy to pop into town during the week on a regular…
chickpeas and chorizo
using up: chickpeas, a courgette, fresh coriander, a rather shrivelled lemon I soaked and boiled some chickpeas for Saturday’s vegetable tagine, and as usual, I did too many. I found a courgette in the fridge that was going a bit manky at one end, so that needed eating up as well, and the freezer audit…