o frabjous day!

Category: Meals

  • 50 new recipes

    I decided not to make resolutions for the new year, and instead decided on a few projects (from small to somewhat ambitious) that I would try and complete in the next twelve months. One of those was making 50 new recipes, with the goal of making different things to my usual recipes – not just…

  • Buttermilk Roast Chicken

    This chicken from Smitten Kitchen is far more delicious than this rather yellow photo makes it out to be. The chicken pieces are marinated in the fridge overnight in a buttermilk mixture, and then baked at a nice high heat, crisping the outsides. The marinade makes the chicken beautifully tender, and given that most of…

  • Smoked Salmon and Camembert Quiche

    This recipe from Taste fit the bill when I was looking for a quick quiche to make for lunch. “Oh wow,” said my guest, “you made your own pastry.” Actually, I didn’t, but apparently I’m skilled at manhandling frozen pastry until it looks homemade. Good to know. This was wonderful, but I think that’s easy…

  • Chicken Diane

    I’m not sure how the delicious magazine I took this recipe from managed to make the chicken look so attractive. I really enjoyed this, but unfortuately it didn’t photograph particularly well. The amounts are for 4 people. ingredients: 700g potatoes, peeled and cut into small cubes 30g butter 2 tbs olive oil 4 chicken breast…

  • Imam Bayildi

    It’s a pity that I can’t photograph cooked eggplant and make it look pretty, because this is one gorgeous tasting dish. I’ve always wanted to try imam bayildi – that description of the imam fainting when he ate it made it sound pretty fabulous. And so it is, probably because of all the oil –…

  • Nigella's Meatballs

    I’m not a big fan of pork, so I was a bit suspicious about these meatballs from a recipe in Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat. However, the husband’s sister had raved about the recipe, and I thought I could probably bear the taste of pork if mixed in with the beef mince. I’m glad I…

  • Ham & Onion Spaghetti

    This dish is one of the boyfriend’s creations – a fragrant mixture of spices, herbs and ham tossed through spaghetti, and served with plenty of cheese – inspired by a rather bare refrigerator. dried spaghetti (this is also great with fettucine – I’ve been using Barilla pasta recently, which is really nice, and I like…

  • Baked Mangrove Jack

    Baked fish is such an easy weekday dinner – very quick and simple. We grabbed two reasonably sized fillets of mangrove jack from the supermarket and baked them with shallots, chives and pepper. 2 fillets fish (roughly 500-600g) butter shallots red onion chives pepper salt Finely slice the shallots, red onion and chives. Place the…

  • Wok – Beef Stir Fry

    Thanks to the generosity of several people giving us gift vouchers to celebrate our engagement, we recently bought (among other things) this gorgeous stainless steel wok, which has enabled us to whip up quick stir-fries for dinner during the week. While we unfortunately have an electric stove, our barbecue has a gas burner, which means…

  • Weekday Lunch – Pumpkin & Feta Scroll

    This simple scroll is a pleasant alternative to a traditional sandwich, made on flat bread. If I wasn’t having anything else with it, I would add more vegetables, but it’s much easier to roll and transport with minimal ingredients inside. 1 large circle of flatbread 2 big spoonfuls roasted pumpkin pesto feta cheese spread avocado…