Tuesday 21 February 2012
by wulf
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My normal pancake recipe has been 1 egg, 2oz of plain flour and 5 fl oz milk. “One, two, five of E, F, M” is fairly easy to remember. The problem is that I’m much more used to working in … Continue reading
Thursday 16 February 2012
by wulf
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I made an interesting pâté earlier this week, using up the giblets that came with the duck we roasted at the weekend and vaguely following a Nigel Slater recipe. Precision wasn’t an option as I didn’t have the chicken livers, cream or … Continue reading
Saturday 11 February 2012
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I am posting this far too late to be of use to anyone else (closing time was hours ago) but I enjoyed a free oyster today at Haymans. They have had a branch in the Oxford covered market for a … Continue reading
Monday 30 January 2012
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Following up Saturday’s monkfish fritters from Rick Stein’s Spain, I then made two further dishes from the book yesterday. First was Oviedo-style beef stew which, unlike most beef stews, uses white wine rather than red as the liquid addition. Skipping … Continue reading
Saturday 28 January 2012
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It was my turn to cook up a delicious dinner today so I popped down to visit the fish market that opened on a local industrial estate last year and selected a monkfish tail. Cooked up following Rick Stein’s Asturian … Continue reading
Friday 27 January 2012
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Jane and I went out for lunch today at the Oxford Brookes restaurant. Delicious food, reasonably priced and well judged portion sizes (going for all three courses was suitably filling but not uncomfortable). I had previously been for a Christmas … Continue reading
Sunday 22 January 2012
by wulf
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Hiding in the bottom of the freezer is one last bag of stewed, unsweetened rhubarb harvested from our garden last year. I think I know what I will use it for; a second helping of the sweet treat I cooked … Continue reading