Our local Co-Op had special offers on chicken last week – two packs of diced breast for a fiver, and the same for whole breast. I picked up two packs of each and stowed them in the freezer, not least because I’m trying to cut down my red meat consumption. There was also a head…
Tag: fennel
fennel and chickie! risotto
We had a lovely free range roast chickie! on Bank Holiday Monday, which has pretty much dominated our food this week. Last night – risotto. As I always say, 5oz risotto rice and 1pint of liquid feeds two hungrish folk. The liquid last night was a mix of lemon juice, rice wine and the indispensable…
duck and fennel risotto
As my regular reader will know, we eat a lot of risotto, but curiously I haven’t made one for ages. We roasted a duck over the Easter weekend, and when I boiled up the carcass for stock, quite a lot of meat came off. Meals for the next few days had been sort of planned,…
a fish pie
using up: a piece of fish, a bulb of fennel, the last third of the bag of spinach. We’re having a fairly traumatic week, and the reason for this was the cause of the existence of one not very big fillet of anonymous white fish. One of our cats, our beloved Bada, has been and…
potato and chicken bake
Using up: cold roast chickie!, old potatoes, spring onions from a friend’s garden, cream bought for supper on Saturday and not eaten (due to circumstances beyond our control) This is a real bitsa one – I’m pleased with it, because it was lovely. Chopped some very elderly potatoes into slices about 1/4″ thick, and layered…
courgette and fennel "cottage pie"
Using up: fennel, courgette, potato Chopped a courgette into chunks, and the other half of the fennel into thin slices, and chopped an onion. All into a frying pan with some olive oil, and left to sauté down. I left it for 20 minutes, but I think it would have been better to either put…