Not Just a Man's World

There’s lots of pork cooking going on at the moment because pork is surprisingly cheap in the supermarket.  Hopefully everyone who reads this blog also enjoys pork!  This is a recipe that I tried for myself and was so pleased with it that I cooked it up again a week later for Chris’s birthday dinner. [...]

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This was another recipe put together with the ingredients in my store cupboard.  I tried it a couple of times changing the ingredients a little each time – the variant below is the best combination of flavours I found.  The flavours are quite delicate and this needs serving up with delicate flavoured vegetables, such as [...]

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Early in the year I needed to cook up something to eat with a very limited store cupboard.  I had made a trip to the supermarket just after New Year, on our way back from the walking trip, but it was late on the Bank Holiday Monday and they had almost nothing left on the [...]

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For some reason this didn’t go live last Tuesday when it was supposed to and this is my first visit to the blog since then, so I’ve just re-posted.  During the last three Tuesdays before Christmas I’m writing a bit about overall catering for the Christmas period based on my experience of hosting the family [...]

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I mentioned last week that Chris was making savoury mince to create a sort of cottage pie when our oven was broken.  Rather than turning his potatoes into jacket potatoes he chose to mash them but didn’t feel that curry went well with mash.  I know I’ve done a cottage pie recipe before, but this [...]

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Nearly two years ago I put up a recipe for beef curry.  Six days a week Chris and I have a mince meal.  While our oven was broken Chris played with making a savoury mince that would go well with mashed potato, turning it into a sort of cottage pie.  However, we usually gravitate towards [...]

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This is an unusual soup flavour and I have to confess that it has purely been created to meet a cutting diet need.  I decided that for extremely low calorie deficit weeks lots of mini meals didn’t work for me (the meal ends up so small that I just feel unsatisfied) and a daily fast [...]

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I was given a pressure cooker for my birthday near the start of this year.  The pressure cooker was a vital part of my future life plan.  I intend doing a lot more stock/soup type meals once I stop because it’s an obvious way to really get money’s worth out of our joints of meat, [...]

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This was another recipe for the Aubergine Files.  Unfortunately the last two recipes haven’t gone down well with Chris because I haven’t managed to get rid of the salt-flavour from the aubergine, no matter how thoroughly I’ve rinsed it afterwards in cold water.  So the recipe below gave me slightly salty moussaka. It’s not the [...]

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