We normally buy our bacon from the inestimable T L Normans on Princes Ave (I have enthused about them many a time), but we were in the Sainsburys mini supermarket on Spring Bank the other Saturday afternoon on our way home (after Normans had shut), and spotted bacon, and thought “ooooh … bacon”, as you…
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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…
breakfast frittata
Half a bag of spinach to use up … Diced two rashers of back bacon, a few mushrooms, half a green pepper* and half a red onion, and put them in the shallow pan of the Remoska with a little olive oil for 15 minutes (switched it on, obviously!). Beat four eggs with some seasoning…
cabbage, bacon and mozzarella
We seem to have a cabbage glut – two of them in the fridge at the start of the week, which is bad planning. I mandolined half of one on Monday for this week’s soup, so only one and a half to go … There were a few bits (I couldn’t call them rashers, really)…
warm salad of broad beans, tuna, bacon and potato
Apologies for the quality of the photo – not sure what happened there! Using up: broad beans, (old) new potatoes. bacon This one really was off the top of my head – Pete wasn’t sure about the tuna and bacon together, but he is now 🙂 I cooked maybe 750g of new potatoes that were…
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…
pasta with butternut squash and feta
Using up: the other half of the feta, the other half of the squash, a lone rasher of bacon Peeled the squash and cut it into cubes. Chopped an onion roughly, ditto some garlic, and a rasher of back bacon. All in a frying pan with some olive oil, and some oregano from our herb…