image from Real Foods I’ve been meaning to try this for ages, so here you go. 1 cup barley (you should strictly speaking, use pearl, but I used what was in the cupboard, and it was fine) 1 butternut squash, peeled (ugh) and diced 3-4 cloves of garlic, crushed 3 cups water 1 chicken…
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a butternut squash
I love butternut squash. It has a lovely texture, and works in so many things: risotto, roast veg, Thai currys, soup, etc. But there’s no denying that it’s a faff to deal with due to the peel. So I did a little experiment. I wanted some soup to come home to on Saturday, and astonishingly,…
corned beef pie
Photo from Paul Townsend This one is a real blast from the past. I used to make it quite often back in the 70s and 80s, but I’m not sure when I last made it. Years and years, for sure. I had a bowl of cooked potatoes in the fridge, and thought “why not?”. So: cut…
a chicken pie
(I said it was a busy weekend). The last of last weekend’s roast chicken was languishing in a bowl in the fridge, and the weather forecast was Not Nice. So we decided that A Pie was called for. Due to the unexpected trip to Lakeland, I started the filling in the tiny slow cooker before…
oat and molasses bread
Left with the rest of the jar of molasses that Real Foods kindly sent me to try, I decided to give this recipe a go. It meant I had to dig my American cup measures out for the first time in ages, and if I want to make it again, I’l translate the recipe into…
haricot beans and cabbage
The remains of the haricots from the shepherds’ pie mix. What to do with them? There was a cabbage in the fridge. There’s nearly always a cabbage in the fridge, and we are very samey with the way we use it, so I thought I’d do a little experiment. So I chopped about 30g of…
cheesy irish potato scones
Potato scones are a doddle. 3-2-1 potato, flour, butter or marg. I usually do 150g of spud, but there was 225g leftover from last night and really, what am I going to do with 3oz of mash? To hell with it, it’s Friday, I used it all. So – rub flour and marg/butter together to…
shepherds' pie
[apologies for the poor quality of the photograph – it looks better than this] I love shepherds’ pie. I don’t dislike its poorer cousin, cottage pie (made with beef), but much better is a cottage pie, made with lamb mince. So as I have a couple of friends coming for supper tonight, I popped into Normans…
home made baked beans
Real Foods very kindly sent me a jar of molasses to review. We do buy various things from them online, but haven’t bought this before, so we were very pleased to get to try it. I wasn’t quite sure what to do with it, to be honest, but I had a rummage round the…
some meatballs
Buried in the back of the freezer, I found 2lbs of sausagemeat, clearly left over from the festering season, and never used. I’m diabetic, and shouldn’t really eat sausage rolls, so I poddled up to the butcher and bought 300g of lean minced beef, and on Sunday we had a meatball cook-in. Italian: Pete manfully…