Having laid the first egg of the season, at least one chook is doing her job – and doing it well. That egg was followed by a second one yesterday and a third today. It looks as though omelette season is upon us! Omelettes make a good Fast Day meal… Today is a Fast Day …
Category archives: Cooking
Making do
Although my head was much improved this morning, I was still feeling sub-optimal. I was grateful for the fact that last night Mr L suggested cancelling my trip to Kirkwall. The weather is still pretty horrible and less than ideal for fighting against the wind with a shopping trolley. I took the car out and …
Sated
We have just dined on Yotam Ottolenghi’s Ultimate Winter Couscous (Plenty: page 262). Fair enough, it’s just a simple vegetable tagine when all is said and done but, my goodness, it was delicious! The subtle spicing and layers of flavour made this a treat from start to finish. Although lacking the preserved lemons, I improvised and …
Feeling Greedy
I know that we do not participate in the annual greed and gluttony-fest that passes for Christmas in many households but if we did, I know what I would be asking for in my stocking: Plenty. I might even request Plenty More. Yotam Ottolenghi has existed as an interesting cook on the periphery of my …
If there were no other reason…
If there were no other reason to favour The Guardian, it would still be worth topping the list just for Felicity Cloake. Time and again when searching for recipes for something I specifically want to make, her How to Cook the Perfect… series crops up in my search results, inevitably yielding the chosen recipe at the …
Two into one will go
I tend to think of our fridge/freezer as almost new. In fact we purchased it when we moved into our Bradford house, which would be around 13 years ago, I think. Since then the appliance has moved house three times and spent a period in a lean-to when it turned out to be too tall …