Category Archives: main course
The godfather of all New Year’s Days
There are some things that are only acceptable on New Year’s Day. Having the worst hangover of the whole year just gone. Having absolutely no guilt about not getting dressed. Telling yourself seriously that by this time next year you’ll … Continue reading
Filed under dessert, Italian, Italy, main course, pasta, recipes, The Godfather
Feel the beet: Duck, beetroot and walnut warm salad
Sometimes the Boy does things I’d just never consider to do. Like buy a whole duck because it’s in the reduced price section late on a Thursday night. But you know there is method to his madness. After he had hacked it … Continue reading
Blanc-ity Blanc: A taste of Le Manoir aux Quat’Saison
Sometimes my job takes me to some pretty nice places. I’m not going to go on about it, so I’ll just leave you with the photos of a trip to heaven and back, to Raymond Blanc’s famous Le Manoir. If … Continue reading
Home on the range: The Big Birthday Blow-out
So it’s kind of become traditional that birthdays = Boy cooking like he’s never cooked before (and me losing him for most of the day to Borough market). So on Saturday it was that day, and I was well excited. … Continue reading
Filed under chicken, Choux Boy, fish, home cuisine, main course, recipes, scallops, special occasion cooking, starters, wine
Gone fishing: Smoked mackerel and bacon cakes
I’d never had fish cakes until a couple of years ago. Really. I’m not sure why or how, I guess I was more a battered fish and chips kind of child, but they are a midweek meal revelation. Meat and potatoes … Continue reading
Filed under fish, main course, midweek meals, recipes
>Beef it up: Mango, avocado and steak salad
> Looking at me today eating, well, anything that doesn’t still have a pulse, you’d never know how much of a fussy eater I once was. Bananas? No, funny texture. Apple crumble? Ew, hot fruit. Red meat? Yuck, chewy (my ten-year-old … Continue reading
Eat, pray… nah, stuff that, just EAT: Bali
In my travelling tummy experience often the best meal you’ll eat in a country is the simplest. Goo-y creamy mozzerella and you-can-still-taste-the-green-of-the-vine tomatoes in Rome, a bowl of steaming fresh mussels in white wine and skinny just-crisp-enough frites in Bruges, … Continue reading
Filed under Bali, Choux Boy, Indonesia, main course, markets, recipes, street food, travel, vegetables
Plenty of Otto love
Hello my name is Filo and I’m a cookbook addict. I can’t help myself. The pretty pictures, the promise of new and exciting meals, heading to the shops little scribbled list in hand to hunt out new spices and ingredients… … Continue reading
Filed under cookbooks, main course, recipes, Spain, vegetables
Can you keep a secret? The Boy’s Chilli Con Carne
Everyone needs a secret ingredient, a recipe passed down from great great grandmothers or at least something that when cooked and friends ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’ over it and ask what it is that makes it so goooooood you just smile … Continue reading
Magical Mystery Tour: Pork steaks and sour cream mustard sauce
I love how making up recipes is like a mystery. Or more accurately like piecing together the evidence on a crime scene investigation. That crime scene being my fridge come midweek. Making a mental note (actimel, fat free yogurts, one egg, … Continue reading
Filed under main course, mash, midweek meals, pork, recipes, sauces, vegetables
