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Friday food links – 21 August 2015

Rhubarb strawberry trifle in progress

This week has been Holiday week – a week of staycation. We have romped around Kew Gardens, been swimming, had some time together as a family, and some time to ourselves too. It’s been a good week. Lots of leftovers building on each other, quite a lot of quick cooking. Tomorrow we have friends visiting for lunch, so there has been a bit of preparation for that, to make tomorrow as effort-free as possible (including the trifle above). E has tucked into bolognese, a lot of yoghurt, nectarines and doughnut peaches, as many cherries as she could get her hands on, and for the first time today, an ice lolly.

Recipes:

  • Tagliata – with a beaten out piece of topside, from Nigella’s Feast
  • Fish curry, approximately from Curry in a Hurry in Nigella Express

Without a recipe:

  • Pork with green lentils
  • Bolognese from the freezer with pasta
  • Takeaway chinese
  • Pizza with courgette, tomato, yellow pepper and bacon

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Friday food links – 24 July 2015

The final birthday baguettes - slashing got a bit better (left to right). Good flavour though.

Lots to cover this week, but no time, so let’s do this in bullets:

The good:

  • My birthday: a day of great food: I baked the baguette dough that had been gestating for 3 days in the fridge and we ate it with cheese, salami, prosciutto and salads. My mum made a cake. And we had a shed-painting party. A dinner out and a first trip to the cinema in about 18 months.
  • Time with family and with E

The bad:

  • A week of sickness: little E spent the weekend careering around and bumped her head about 6 times. She then got a temperature overnight on Tuesday, and spent the rest of the week out of nursery. Lots of sadness 😦
  • A bit of a lack of meal planning, which combined with the unexpected sickness and unexpected (although very welcome) extra house guests (my parents, looking after E) to mean a bit of a random week of meals.

Some firsts:

  • I restarted running – 3 run/walks this week (using the couch to 5k app). Doing the timed runs interspersed with walks is a much more enjoyable way to start for me than just running slowly.
  • I ordered a Riverford recipe box for the first time. Although this ended up not being a great week to try it out, the one recipe we’ve tried so far has been good.

Recipes:

Without a recipe:

  • Lasagne with pork mince bolognese
  • Spice Tailor chicken curry, with tomato dal from the freezer

Reading – no real time this week, but what time i have had has been making progress on the Ed Catmull book Creativity Inc – highly recommended.

Friday food links – 10 July 2015

I continue to be impressed by this NYT white bread / pain de mie. Almost brioche-buttery.

I’ve been chasing my tail a little this week. Nothing much has been planned more than a few hours ahead. A few nights of pasta, quite a lot of things have been wrapped in tortillas. But other than a slight shortage of vegetables, this is a good pattern for summer cooking. Nothing heated for too long, lots of tomatoes, things eaten with fingers. It feels just right for when you’re eating dinner barefoot, with the back doors open and the tennis on.

Recipes:

  • Pasta with broccoli and peas, loosely from the Five O’Clock Apron Broccoli Pesto recipe

Cooking without a recipe:

  • Pizza
  • Breaded chicken with roasted tomato and pepper pasta
  • Lamb kebabs from the freezer, in wraps with hummus and salad
  • Roast chicken
  • Burritos with black beans, avocado and chicken

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