We had a slightly different meal this time – 3 starter-sized portions. First up were some snails – you can occasionally get them in Lidl of all places. Of course, they don’t come with anywhere near enough garlic butter so we added more – see the pan at the back Continue Reading
Wine Tip – Lidl, Hawke’s Bay Pinot Noir
This is our go-to everyday quaffing wine at the moment. Light, and an easy drink. It’s normally £6 at Lidl, which is a pretty good price – but 4-5 weeks ago, just before people started panic buying loo roll and we all went into lockdown, they had it on special Continue Reading
Provencal Fish Soup
This was dinner on Sunday night – some fish soup that I had made back in February when a friend came to dinner. I made a batch of it and froze what was left over. It’s actually really easy to makeCook onion, garlic & leeks in a bit of oil Continue Reading
Eggs Benedict, sort of
The basics of a normal Eggs Benedict are there – a toasted roll, some ham and poached eggs. The ham was home-made on Friday – a 2kg gammon boiled for about 90 mins with molasses/dark treacle and various spicings, then baked for 20 mins with brown sugar, English mustard and Continue Reading
Cauliflower Puree
We dug some lamb tagine out of the freezer for dinner tonight – a really simple dish, the one we make is basically just lamb, water, cinnamon, powdered ginger and some salt, cooked until the meat is flaking and the sauce is thick. It comes from Marcella Hazan’s “Arabesque” book Continue Reading
Pub Dinner – Ye Shakespeare, Bristol
Contrary to what some of our friends might think, we don’t actually eat out that much, but last week we had dinner in Ye Shakespeare on Victoria Street in Bristol (one of the oldest in the city apparently).A couple of friends from Exmouth had managed to win a voucher for Continue Reading
Green Loaf
You are probably wondering what the hell this is – it’s not a cake, it’s actually a seed loaf the SWMBO makes regularly as we try not to eat much bread. It’s mainly sunflower seeds, part blitzed into a powder, some bits left a bit bigger. I’ll post the recipe Continue Reading
Dinner 22/06/2019
Veal sirloin, cauliflower gratin and green beans. The veal comes from Waitrose – I’m quite comfortable eating it given that the old-style white veal (due to the cows being kept immobile in crates) has been banned, and don’t see it as any different to eating lamb.We simply seared it in Continue Reading
So what’s this about?
So I’ve decided to experiment with another blog, which makes 4 – is that excessive? This one, all about food. And wine. My main photography blog at http://www.shendy.co.uk/blog/ – there’s a website attached to that as well My music blog at http://music.shendy.co.uk/ The one with my dad’s photos, which I’ll Continue Reading