Quick and easy Chicken Korma
Start the night before In a food processor or with a stick blender puree together: 1 tsp ground ginger 3 cloves garlic 150g thick natural yoghurt half a fresh chilli, including seeds 2 onions 1 tbsp ground corriander 1 tsp turmeric 175g creamed coconut grated quarter tsp salt 2 – 3 tbsp ground almonds juice […]
Sausage Casserole
Ingredients 8 or 9 good quality sausages tinned tomatoes glass of red wine cooking oil large onion 1 green pepper 2 cloves garlic good slug Worcestershire sauce 2 tsp granulated sweetener tabasco sauce to taste Salt and pepper Method Heat the oven to gas 5 etc In an oven proof saucepen brown the sausages a […]
Mavis’s Shepherds Pie
I make this for everyone but as it has no horrid onions or mushrooms, Mavis will eat it without making a fuss. Of course it has to have other ingredients to add flavour or it would be really boring. Ingredients 1k beef mince 4 slices streaky bacon, diced half a cup of red wine a […]
Cheese Nibbles
Ingredients 4oz plain flour 4 oz cold butter 4 oz grated mature cheddar (or any cheese really) Quarter tsp. cayenne pepper 1 egg yolk Method Pre-heat the oven to gas 7, 425 F 220 C. Throw all the ingredientsapart from the egg yolk into a food processor bowl with the metal bald and process on […]
Recipes for Horace
Four years ago, or maybe more, I promised HoraceI would write down all my recipes for her so she wouldn’t starve at university. Despite the fact that she didn’t even know how to bake a potato, and that I completely failed to fulfil my promise, Horace is still as large as life and cooking with […]
Milo and Nellie – progress report
I’ve just read back through the previous post about the dogs and I think things are slightly better. Milo no longer slinks about, he has re-established his place in the family -in fact he is rather bossy with Nellie, particularly if we are in the picture. I think it’s right to say that Milo is […]
A new dog
I think I’ve mentioned that Whizz and I were considering the acquisition of a second mut. On Saturday morning, the first day of the half term break, which is usually allotted as lie-in morning, we found ourselves, at 8.30, meeting a van from Ireland that barked. We had been up since 6.30 and were in […]
Three Husbands
Sadly, but also happily, Sloggo (see The Cast) died recently. He had been suffering from MS for many years and had gone from being a teddy bear to a bundle of twisted sticks. His funeral was held in Cornwall and Whizz and I took a day off work and travelled the 275 miles to Bodmin […]
Theme Tunes
Hum the theme tune to Star Wars. Now… can you hum the theme tune to Indiana Jones? It’s quite impossible to find one after humming the other!
Milo has fun
I have made a new circle of friends, the Dog Brigade. This is not to be confused with dogging which is, arguably, pretty sociable however not on my list of must do activities. The joy of walking Milo had, until quite recently,receded in direct proportion to the increased adversity of the weather. Now though, I […]