Showing posts with label garlic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garlic. Show all posts

Saturday, 18 August 2012

Recipe: Pommes Boulangère


During my week of seasonal eating one of my favourite French recipes managed to squeeze its way onto the line-up, although I did stick to my UK-only rule for its ingredients. Pommes Boulangère is a classic French dish, firmly falling into the category of home-cooking (and literally translating to mean potatoes in the style of the baker's wife), and in little need of adaptation. However, I've got a hungry boy to feed so sliced potatoes, onions and stock just doesn't cut it in my house. I added some flecks of bacon, a generous helping of Somerset Brie, and some super fresh, local runner beans on the side...


Friday, 17 August 2012

Recipe: Summer Spaghetti

Following my discovery of an amazing book on seasonal eating last weekend, I spent an educational, tiring, yet very enjoyable week trying to create a tasty meal each evening using only home-grown, seasonal produce. I tried to stick to locally sourced ingredients, where possible, and avoided using anything made, grown, reared outside of the UK. 

The result of working so hard to avoid the supermarkets, over-packaging and miles and miles of unnecessary transportation? A handful of lovely recipes to share on the Blog (after a week of silence - sorry regular readers!)... like this Summer Spaghetti, with bacon, British mushrooms and seasonal greens. 



Saturday, 21 July 2012

Recipe: Pork Medallions with Black Pudding, Haricot Beans and Spring Greens

I seem to be a bit obsessed with cooking pork lately, maybe since the success of slow-roasting a huge slab of pork belly at my family's Jubilee weekend celebrations, and add it to my plate at every possible opportunity. I stumbled upon an awesome, simple supper recipe by Waitrose in my recipe file, consisting of haricot beans, black pudding and spring greens, and decided to give it try. With a pork medallion piled on top, naturally. The rich, meaty gravy created by the black pudding is a great partner to the crunchy greens and warming haricot beans.