a squeaky breakfast

Our local cafe, run by an affable Romanian named  Ricardo, does a splendid breakfast of halloumi, roasted veg, hash brown, a sausage patty, tomato (for those that want it – I certainly don’t!) and toast, for £4.99.  It’s delicious, but by the time you’ve bought coffee, you’re up to thirteen quid or so for two,…

a sort of goulash

We had friends coming for supper on Sunday evening – lovely, as I love cooking for people, and don’t do nearly enough of it since we moved! I wasn’t sure what I wanted to cook, but I went to the butcher and bought some beautiful lean pork, and there was a big bag of mixed…

a couple of roast peppers

We had a couple of roasted yellow peppers languishing in the fridge in a jar – not enough to do anything substantial with, but needed using up all the same. Working at home, lunches get very samey – usually soup, bread and cheese or cold meat, although I have to be careful with cheese now…

chickpeas and peppers

I had a red and a yellow pepper starting to go a bit wrinkly, and some gingery chickpeas in the freezer, so I thought I’d combine them. I cut a red onion in half, and sliced it thinly, then deseeded the peppers, and cut them into thin strips.  Started them off on the hob in…

moroccan meatballs with sweet pepper sauce

As I said in the spag bol post, I had about a pound of mince left over. In fact, when we weighed it, it was 1lb 7oz!

Pete set to making the meatballs; he ground cumin, coriander, allspice, fennel seeds and cinnamon, finely chopped a shallot and some garlic, and mashed it all together. It made 18 walnut-sized meatballs. He left out salt, but we realised before it was too late …