Click here for larger image view I cooked a Vegetable Madras curry today and made naan breads to go with it. A tasty mix of onions, potato, tomatoes, peppers, cauliflower and mushrooms went into the curry. Mr L has a thing about potatoes in curry and swears that they don’t cook properly, no matter what …
Category archives: Cooking
A weekend in the kitchen
The sun was already warm when I trotted down the track with the rubbish bags this morning. It was glistening off the grass, bejewelled by a heavy dew. Skylarks and snipe were on the wing and there was not a breath of wind. What a wonderful day. Far too nice a day to be going …
Here we go again
Personally I fail to see any special significance in the tearing-off of any sheet on the calendar – it’s just a totally arbitrary numbering system when all be said and done. However, if you are into that kind of thing – a Happy New Year to you. Mr L has changed his lenses, as he …
The Anniversary Waltz
Here we are again, eleven years in this time. Happy Anniversary, my dear Mr L. It seems but yesterday that we were shivering in the Bratfud snow. Shopping has been effected – just about everyone on the island seemed to be out and about today and things were very light-hearted and jolly. Our newest commercial …
Masterchef
Make no bones about it, I am a self-confessed Masterchef addict. We have no TV but I make sure that I prioritise Masterchef whenever I sit down with the iPlayer. I watch every version of the show. It is a compulsion. I watched the old Masterchef, the Loyd Grossman one in the 1990s, when amateur …
A day in the kitchen
Mr L is out in the garden again. Yesterday he finished the tidying job that we started a couple of weeks ago and today he is out with the power washer, cleaning concrete. I did offer to help. No, I did, really I did. I was rejected and dispatched to the kitchen, where I am …