Friday food links – 26 June 2015

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Somerset...

We have been something of a plague house this week, with all three of us getting ill in quick succession. So we haven’t been paying much attention to food at all.

Recipes:

  • Sunday lunch of pulled pork, white buns, Yotam Ottolenghi corn slaw (from Plenty More) and tomato salad
  • Tiny strawberry cream scones, strawberry conserve, whipped cream, crushed meringues

Without a recipe:

  • Invalid food – peanut butter sandwiches, lots of toast, 
  • Leftover pork tacos
  • Salad with lettuce from the garden

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Friday food links – 19 June 2015

The view from here #nofilter

We’ve been away in Cornwall all week, so there has been no cooking for me since Saturday. We’ve been in Mawgan Porth, stopping off in Somerset on the way down. The weather has been largely sunny, and we’ve done lots of toddler-friendly activities, including time on the beach, and walking around a boating lake, waving at the ducks. It’s been nice to be waited on, cooked for, and cleaned up after for a few days.

Recipes:

  • approximately a Nigella spatchcocked chicken with lemon and rosemary from Forever Summer, with diced, roasted potatoes, green beans and carrots

Without a recipe:

  • Mushroom and tomato pasta, using up the last of the Jennifer Perillo mushroom bolognese.

Other things we’ve been eating:

  • a really nice asparagus soup and Caesar salad at the Salutation Inn in Topsham, near Exeter
  • Slow-roasted duck with pommes Anna and wet garlic at Bedruthan Steps hotel
  • Mackerel crudo with grapefruit at Riverford Field Kitchen
  • a lot of clotted cream 🙂

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Friday food links – 12 June 2015

I should probably be putting these in a salad for maximum Instagram points - but I kind of like them where they are.

Recipes

Without a recipe:

  • Vegetable stir-fry with peanuts, pak choi
  • Mushroom and bacon pasta
  • Tacos with leftover white chili, avocado, cheese, and spring onions

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Lots of reading for work about food, and not time for much else

Friday food links – 5 June 2015

Lettuce (chomping snails not shown)

June already? Well, at least in the last couple of days we’ve had a taste of summer, so it feels like the weather is catching up with the calendar again. This week has been a catch-as-catch-can week for dinners, scraping together all sorts of odds and ends to get us through a busy week, and one where bedtime has taken even longer than usual. A roast chicken on Sunday stood us in good stead. Another batch of white chili (this time without the chicken, as it had gone off before I got to it) did duty another night. And, last night, M&S pizza filled the gap. Hoping to get back on track this weekend, with some batches of food for next week, bread and granola.

Recipes:

Without a recipe:

  • Chicken salad – with stuffing crumbs, moonblush tomatoes, cucumber and radish
  • M&S Pizza
  • Fresh filled pasta with tomato sauce
  • Chicken curry

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