Using up chicken gravy, feta, salad leaves, fennel Yes, another risotto^H^H rice based dish. These are just a great way to use up vegetables and so forth, and I love the texture – real comfort food stuff. The chicken gravy/stock was left from Sunday’s roast chickie!, and was a much thicker liquor than I’d usually…
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green beans with mustards
Another reminder of childhood – my grandparents grew green beans in the garden of their little terraced house in Gosport, on the Hampshire coast. They trained them up a sort of teepee arrangement of canes, and I can still see their bright red flowers. Riverford sent us a big bunch (were they a bunch? Well,…
pan gallego
This is a Spanish bread from Galicia. I made it to use up an ounce of fresh yeast left over from the weekend’s foccacia … 350g strong white bread flour 115g wholemeal bread flour 2 tsp salt (I think this was a bit too much myself) 2 tbsp olive oil 20g fresh yeast 275ml lukewarm…
apricot, almond and lemon sponge pudding
As always, I was looking to use up something; in this instance, a bowl of apricots that were going a bit wrinkly – I sometimes think this blog should be subtitled “reactive cooking”. In fact, I think I will do just that! [later] And I have, if you look at the address bar! A bit…
foccacia
I’m rarely organised enough to make bread. We do have a bread machine, but it’s in the loft; I don’t particularly like the bread it makes, and we don’t eat much bread anyway. But I fancied some for lunch yesterday – I have a Kitchenaid mixer with a dough hook, there was bread flour in…
drop scones
Having been to Pizza Hut for lunch (first time in many years, and not particularly nice, especially not the (possibly mildly autistic) screaming child at the next table), we didn’t want much for supper. So we had drop scones. 8oz self raising flour 1/2 generous teaspoon of cream of tartar ditto of bicarbonate of soda…
a simple veg stir fry
Stir fries are indeed quick to cook, but they are not necessarily quick to prepare. The secret is to do all the prep first, as the cooking is very swift. For this one: Take one red pepper, some rather tired mushrooms, two courgettes, and chop up as you will. Finely chop ginger and garlic –…
what to do with the leftover asparagus
Make an omelette! Three eggs, some asparagus blanched for about 4 minutes, salt, pepper and some shavings of gruyere. Lovely. Had it with home made soda bread – this is a useful recipe, as you can use pretty much any combination of bread flour, and it will work. And it has no yeast, so is…
spring greens with coconut and chilli
A lovely simple dish, very quick to prepare. We always have it with basmati rice. A bunch of spring greens, sliced thinly – I take the big stalks out too, but it’s up to you 1 tin of coconut milk 1 or 2 dried chillis, depending on your palate – seeds removed ditto, chopped [some]…
rhubarb crumble
As always, bits of this are fairly random. Serves 4 if they’re not overly greedy. Take 3 good sticks of rhubarb, clean, trim, and chop into chunks. I do mine in different sizes so you get a different texture when it’s cooked. Some might say this was accidental, but it’s not. No really. Put into…