D is away officiating in the Tour of Britain, Britain’s premier professional cycling race, he left on Saturday and will be back in 9 days. In the interests of economy, I decided that I would buy a free range, local chicken to eat for the week- lunch and dinner. On Sunday the chicken, lemon [...]
Today was just me for dinner, so it had to be something simple. I had found a nice skate (or ray) wing and decided to cook that. The wing was placed on a piece of aluminium foil that was sprinkled with lemon juice, salt and ground black pepper, then popped into a pre-heated oven at [...]
D had a bicycle to deliver in Dunstable and as we know a good Italian eaterie there, I was looking forward to supper. It is more of a café than a restaurant, having only eight tables. It is decorated with pictures of Italian celebrities, Dean Martin, Sophia Loren etc. and the tables are [...]
Alone tonight, I forgot to shop, so sat on the kitchen floor to investigate the stock on the shelves.
Quite interesting - I wonder, when I will ever eat three jars of honey?? I ended up with a small can of tomatoes, some dried, wild, Italian mushrooms, dried pasta called Mafalda Corta (from Naples! - I [...]
We awoke to watery sunshine then went back to sleep. We dozed for ages, it was so relaxing. We read and drank coffee then went for a drive at about 3.00pm, by which time it was raining again. We climbed Mont D’Or where D had been the previous evening but the 56 steps of the [...]
We a woke to sunshine and I wore my summer clothes. We had breakfast of fried eggs and mushrooms on toasted sunflower bread, it was lovely. French eggs all seem to have very yellow yolks and they are always delicious. We read a little in the sunshine but soon had to have a little snooze…
We [...]
We awoke to a cool and damp day but as it is our holiday we don’t mind that much. We did some basic shopping then had a drive out to the countryside. There is a distinct lack of wild life in this area compared to some places we have stayed, the only things of interest have been [...]
On the MV Bretagne from Portsmouth we find our cabin and stow our luggage. To the restaurant for dinner but there was a long queue and we had to put our names on a list to be called when a table became vacant. To the rear deck, with drinks - Sancerre for me and a [...]
A dismal Saturday morning in Buckinghamshire - drizzle, spray from passing cars and a keen breeze making me desire a hearty dinner.
A glance into the butcher’s window had me (mentally) dancing for joy as there was a perfect leg of lamb hanging from the rail. It weighed 1.60kgs and was too long [...]
I’m not a fan of broccoli on the whole, but now that purple sprouting is in season, I do make the effort to be good and use it. Tonight I made it into a pasta sauce and this is what I did - I won’t give measurments/weights I rarely use them. You need:
Purple sprouting broccoli
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