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Category: My Week In Food

My Week in Food is a diary of my food shopping, cooking and eating out. I mention favourite websites, food shops, restaurants and food and drink related people and sometimes give related recipes. Most often, though, the recipe comes in a note form rather than a formulated recipe although there is always enough detail to get you cooking. Actual recipes are in the Recipes section of the website.

My Week in Food started Sunday 23 June 2019 and despite the occasional omission, usually caused by my useless grasp of WordPress, I’ve kept it up every week, although I have been late posting. Some weeks are more interesting than others but there is always something worth reading about and it’s a backlog worth dipping in and out of, often with mini-essays on various aspects of food.

26 Jan 20

Marmalade making dominates my week using the last licks in the pan to marinate chicken for chicken and mango biryani. Cooked the first curried parsnip soup of the winter and was so pleased I did, it’s such a wonderful soup. Really pleased, too, with a chicken and sausage gratin-cum-pie made with leftovers from Sunday’s roast…

19 Jan 20

It’s my son Henry’s birthday today. He arrived two months early and quite by co-incidence, two of last night’s dinner guests were crucial in saving his life and mine. His arrival was dramatic, a drama that went on for months but looking at him now – tall and fit – it’s hard to believe it….

12 Jan 20

The gentle art of leftovers came to the fore this week. Leftover goat stew became goat hot-pot with a covering of very thinly sliced potatoes and leftover roast Aylesbury duck became duck shepherd’s pie with orange and lemon mash. A birthday roast shoulder of lamb could easily have been turned into another more traditional shepherd’s…

5 Jan 20

Tomorrow is the start of post-Christmas and New Year celebrations fading into the background. I’m a grass widow for the next couple of weeks, quietly getting on with my own life as The B hits the deck at 6.30am and returns home at 9pm exhausted and hungry after eyes down on a big Case. It’s…

29 Dec 19

Sunday Our last couple of days in St Leonards and lunch today is those pretty little dabs bought yesterday at one of the black Hastings Fish Huts. I cook them whole, rinsed and patted dry, then floured and fried until the skin is crusty and golden. We scrape the sweet flesh off the carcass –…

22 Dec 19

The run up to Christmas is decidedly un-Christmassy for me. I did my share of Christmas cooking but was very happy to have the chance to borrow my artist friend’s studio-cum-flat (www.marilynhallam.com) in St Leonards on Sea, escaping on Boxing Day. I love M’s work and urge you to check out her website; there are…

15 Dec 19

Sunday There’s been an alternate Christmas routine going on in my family since our marital split when sons Zach and Henry were six and eight. Since Zach married, the tradition has moved effortlessly onto alternate Christmases with his wife’s family. Hen and I are invariably together but this year he’s off to Kenya on Christmas…

8 Dec 19

Sunday It doesn’t seem to matter how early I get up, how well organised I am and how ahead I am with the cooking, when there are people for Sunday lunch, I always fail to get on top of things. I dream of sitting decorously awaiting the guests but it never happens. First job is…

1 Dec 19

Sunday If you take the trouble to book a particular table two weeks in advance and explain that the occasion is a special one and the restaurant promises to do their best to honour the request, it’s hard not to be disappointed when you arrive to be told someone else has also requested the table….

24 Nov 19

Week of catching up with this website, new recipes, new thoughts about how to make it better with help from Alex. On the cooking front, getting into a happy routine of good husbandry, making leftovers sing as completely different meals but still discombobulated by not having to come up with five new Dinner Tonight recipes…

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