We had some button mushrooms and a little cream waiting to be used up, and this seemed an ideal way to do it on a hot day. Finely chopped two shallots and three cloves of garlic, and cooked them down in olive oil. Added some chopped rosemary and thyme from the herb garden^H^H pots, which…
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beef with clementines and ginger wine
There was a 3.75lb hunk of silverside in the freezer, and a tub of clementine mush (clementines that have been boiled and liquidised – I normally use them to make a cake with ground almonds). So diced and sautéed two big carrots, a courgette and two sticks of celery, together with a red onion cut…
mushroom stroganoff
[sorry – took photo with iPhone and it didn’t come out well] Using up: half a carton of double cream, some elderly mushrooms I was going to do a mushroom sauce for tagliatelle, and then inspiration struck! I sent Pete out to see if there was any parsley left in the herb tubs while it…
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…
beef stroganoff
Using up: ribeye steak, mushrooms Along with the three sausages, we also returned from Summer Camp with a heap of ribeye steak, which simply didn’t get eaten. I flung it in the freezer in the general melée of dealing with wet tents, missing cats, etc., but a carton of organic mushrooms in the fridge gave…
stuffed mushrooms
Using up: portabella mushrooms, bacon, blue cheese I’ve never done stuffed mushrooms before, but had seen a couple of people prepared them on Come Dine with Me, a programme which I rather like. We had some lovely bacon in the freezer, from a friend’s first attempt at pig rearing, but it was sliced very thin…