Welsh onion cake This Welsh Onion Cake is a humble dish which takes less than ten minutes to prepare, and can sit in your oven on a Sunday while your lunch is roasting. And for those of you Sunday lunch purists who insist on roast potatoes with your roast, I promise you that you won’t […]
potatoes
Yep, still more potatoes to get through
Another week, another bag of potatoes to get through … this is the problem when you try not to waste food. If you don’t remember from last week’s post, my mum left me with a few bags of potatoes to get through before she went on holiday, and we are still trying to get through […]
Another week of meal planning, and lots of potatoes
We have a busy week coming up, both for me at work (where I’ll be in the office on Thursday as well, despite usually working from home on Thursdays), and for us at home, as Andrew’s parents are coming to visit and take on the childcare duties whilst Granny Annie takes a well deserved holiday. […]
Corned beef pie – a Welsh classic (new recipe)
Corned beef pie – a welsh classic If you are of a certain age, you probably ate lots of corned beef when you were growing up. Tinned or sliced, this mystery meat is salty and fatty, with a non-meat texture. For a food snob like me, I should avoid it like the plague, but I […]
Cookbook challenge – Nigel Slater: beetroot and goats cheese, pork and lemons, rhubarb marscapone tart
I am writing this just after watching the first episode of a new cookery programme by Nigel Slater. As always I am struck by how genuinely nice he seems, and how much I’d like to go around to his house for dinner. In fact, years ago we used to live near to him in Highbury […]
The easiest dinner – traybake
My kitchen is still a dusty disaster zone, so I don’t have any new recipes to share with you. However, one of my favourite dishes, which happens to be one of the simplest, is a traybake. It scarcely counts as a recipe as you just have to chop up a few things, dump them in a […]
Chips
My Grandad would have been 100 yesterday. He made it into his 80s, which was pretty decent considering he was an 80 a day smoker who according to him began puffing before he reached his teenage years, while working the markets in South East London. He was diabetic in his senior years, but didn’t let something […]
Meal planning Monday – 17 March 2014
Last week was, quite frankly, a horror. I started with a long three days in Paris: as always it was a pleasure to spend time with colleagues and friends out there, but it was also exhausting, and I picked up a bug before I left. Being so tired when I returned to London, of course […]
What happens when you leave the freezer door open all day
Yep, you can probably guess what happens when you do something as thick as that … especially when you do something like that on the hottest day of the year so far (okay, I appreciate that doesn’t normally mean much here in the UK but it was pushing 30 degrees last week so it was […]
Always thinking of my next meal
Having barely finished dinner, I am already thinking about tomorrow’s grub. I suppose at least I waited until I had finished eating – that isn’t always the case! So, Ocado had beef brisket on special offer today which I had delivered. It’s not a massive piece (I thought it was supposed to be dirt cheap […]