Last weekend Mr B cooked his brilliant cassoulet. It fills our largest casserole dish, and that's BIG, so stocks the freezer for a number of future 'freezer' meals. It contains lamb, pork (belly pork and sausages), chicken and duck on the meat front. This time it also contained a very local pheasant as well. A large cock pheasant made the mistake of deciding that the food we give our chickens was also for him. He made a good addition to the pot.
A leg of lamb was our Sunday roast, so the menu for the week contained a lamb meat-loaf.
M Jamie Oliver's (yes still delving into his At Home recipe book) Pasta with Leeks and Prosciuto
Can't find a link to the actual recipe - go buy the book, highly recommended. The feedback from family: 'yum', 'you can't taste the leeks' the latter being from a leek cynic.
T Lamb Meat Loaf
One of my 'left over sunday roast' recipes. Will type it up later.
W Chicken Stir Fry
Buy pack of chicken breast fillets, a stir fry vegetable mix that takes your fancy, medium egg noodles and, if you haven't got the inclination to make, a stir fry mix (eg sweet and sour). Result - sweet and sour chicken and vegetable chow mein. If you really want to have recipe for this then add a comment or, in the case of my kids, ask your father.
Th 'Sea' Pie
Not what you're thinking: I thought it was a fish/seafood based pie when I married into this family. Turns out it is a posh version of corn beef hash. This recipe is part of Mr B's repitoire. Recipe will be added to blog at a later date.
F Freezer meal.
Great standby either for when we can't think of anything else or evening plans change!
Recipes and at least some menu planning for each week
About this blog
I started this blog as a place for me to record evening menu plans for a week for my family of four, somewhere to store the recipes I have on scraps of paper or in my head and potentially where kids can access their mother's recipes in the years to come. Both 'kids' are good cooks in their own right.
Some years on and it is now also a place I can share recipes with friends. Enjoy!
About the family
Me - I am a working mother of 2. I love cooking, when I get time, and planning out or at least having ideas for evening meals during the week helps considerably.
Mr B - the other main cook and a very good one too, but he does like to follow a recipe to the letter.
E - eldest child. Has been a pescatarian for a number of years now.
M - tallest of the family even though the youngest. Along with Mr B an out and out carnivore.
Recipes
We're based in the UK so you'll find a mix of measurements for my recipes. Where possible I have linked to online recipes from some of my favourite cooks and their cook books.
If you need any clarification do add a comment to the recipe and I will get back to you.
All recipes and words copyright © Catharine Brode 2009 - 2024 unless otherwise credited. All rights reserved. Please ask before you republish, in whatever form.
Some years on and it is now also a place I can share recipes with friends. Enjoy!
About the family
Me - I am a working mother of 2. I love cooking, when I get time, and planning out or at least having ideas for evening meals during the week helps considerably.
Mr B - the other main cook and a very good one too, but he does like to follow a recipe to the letter.
E - eldest child. Has been a pescatarian for a number of years now.
M - tallest of the family even though the youngest. Along with Mr B an out and out carnivore.
Recipes
We're based in the UK so you'll find a mix of measurements for my recipes. Where possible I have linked to online recipes from some of my favourite cooks and their cook books.
If you need any clarification do add a comment to the recipe and I will get back to you.
All recipes and words copyright © Catharine Brode 2009 - 2024 unless otherwise credited. All rights reserved. Please ask before you republish, in whatever form.
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