a lunchtime salad

using up: the last of a cabbage, two expired wheaten wraps, the remains of a bunch of coriander We work at home, and for lunch at this time of year we generally have soup, bread or crackers, and cheese or meat, or something similar.  But it can get very boring, and we’d finished this week’s…

a change for lunch

We work at home, and usually have the same thing for lunch every day – crispbread or crackers, with some combination of cheese, cold meat, mushroom paté and chilli (in Pete’s case), etc.  It’s ok, but can get a bit dull. So yesterday, we had something different – I made a combination of the rest…

broad bean wrap

Using up: broad beans, cashews in salt and black pepper, salad leaves, roast chicken Riverford brought us broad beans last week (I think these are fava beans in the US).  They’re not something we get excited about, and so they languished in the bottom of the fridge.  Last night I fetched them out and podded…

lunchtime salad

A warm May day in Somerset, so we rummaged in the fridge and larder, and concocted a salad: Red pepper, borlotti beans, spring onions, shredded cabbage, cucumber, feta cheese, walnut oil, tamari, lemon juice, packet of seeds. Accompanied by pitta bread lightly toasted, then cut into strips. Just the job.

the endless sausage

This is actually perlmonger‘s lunch: I loathe raw tomatoes, don’t care for strong cheddar (that’s unpasteurised organic there), and I’m not that fond of kabanos. But I do always bite the end off his sossidge [fnaar].

I know it's wrong …

We have had a trying morning, involving a web server running out of steam, and a Dishwasher Incident requiring me to hotfoot it shortly to B&Q to get some drain rods. Also, I failed to make any soup for this week’s lunches, as it was dead warm yesterday. To console ourselves, we stuck a couple…

bitsa lunch

We had a bag of salad leaves from Riverford this week. Neither perlmonger nor I are especially fond of salad; it always seems too much effort for little reward. However, we also have three mozzarellae which need eating (bought a tub full at Costco the other week). And so, today’s lunch: 1 packet pancetta cubes,…

a guilty lunch

I baked a couple of those Sainsburys part-baked baguettes for lunch – they are a godsend when you work at home, and have forgotten to put bread in the machine. Chopped up a shallot and some Red Leicester to make a cheese and onion-y sandwich, then added some cucumber. And then, the final flourish –…