Hello

Welcome to Yet Another Cooking Blog.

As you may have guessed, this is a blog about cooking - in particular my cooking. It has been mentioned to me several times that I seem a little obsessed with food, so I have decided to blog about my menus, my successes, my failures and anything else that springs to mind

Sunday 27 March 2011

Week 13 dinner menu

Monday - Chicken curry, brown rice and naan bread
Tuesday - Mince and mash
Wednesday - Fish pasta and salad
Thursday - Beef and barley stew with mashed potato
Friday - Chicken Yaki Udon and gyoza
Saturday - Lamb kebabs, pitta and salad
Sunday - Roast duck with all the trimmings

Cake baking - ricotta, apricot and almond cake

I'm not good at baking, I am happy to admit that.  But I am good at eating it!  I'm usually just a little bit disappointed by supermarket cakes (except for cadbury chocolate mini rolls - I can inhale those), so I thought I would bake a cake myself.

Now, there is no way that I can invent my own recipe, so I had a look through my cook books, and got out the Good food 101 slow cooking recipes, which has a couple of tasty cakes in it.  Having treated myself to a new hand food mixer, of course I had to make use of it, so I made a ricotta, apricot and almond cake.  Takes 90 minutes to bake, and is obviously good for you, as real apricots are involved :)


I couldn't find the recipe on the good food website, so if you want to try the cake yourself, you either have to pop round for a cup of tea and a slice of cake (while stocks last) or buy the cook book :)

Tuesday 22 March 2011

Sorry!

Sorry for the lack of recipe updates recently, my daughter has started nursery, and bringing all of the bugs home with her, so she is like a plague carrier, passing it all to me!  Having not been around children for many years, I have alot of bugs to get immune to.

Hopefully normal service will be resumed shortly.

Monday 21 March 2011

Week 12 dinner menu

Monday - Japanese chicken curry and rice, gyoza
Tuesday - Leftover curry and rice
Wednesday - Freezer surprise
Thursday - Chilli con carne and rice
Friday - Home made fish and chips
Saturday - Scallops with pea puree, coq au vin, tart tatin
Sunday - Roast chicken and all the trimmings

Sunday 20 March 2011

Week 11 dinner menu

Monday - Steak and mash
Tuesday  - Fried gnocchi with shallots, pancetta and spinach
Wednesday - Sausages and mash
Thursday - Lasagne, garlic bread and salad
Friday - Chinese feast
Saturday - four cheese and ham ravioli in tomato sauce, pork chops with honey and mustard glaze and mash
Sunday - roast lamb and all the trimmings

Sunday 6 March 2011

Week 10 dinner menu

Monday - Early pancake day
Tuesday - Steak, mash and carrots
Wednesday - Freezer surprise
Thursday - Chicken chasseur, slow cooker rice pudding
Friday - Sticky belly pork, spicy potato wedges and salad
Saturday - Chinese feast
Sunday - Roast lamb with all the trimmings