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English Mum |
Jul 26th, 2008
Pork meatballs with borlotti beans and peppers
So our local butcher (well, I say ‘local’, he’s a half-hour drive away) does some really nice finely minced pork. I usually make meatballs in tomato sauce, but since I’ve done both chicken breasts and lamb shanks (simmer for 2 hours until the meat is falling off the bone) in this sauce recently, I thought I’d try something different.
For the meatballs:
500g minced pork
2 slices...
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English Mum |
Jun 21st, 2008
Hubby’s Evil Chilli Couscous
So last night we all sat down for a nice family meal to celebrate the end of term/prizes/the promise of good reports to come (#2 looked slightly green at the mention of those), etc. I made little meatballs with my lamb kebab mixture, which I baked in the oven, along with some of #1′s famous tomato sauce.
Hubby, generally a stranger to the kitchen (unless there’s scrambling of eggs or anything to...
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English Mum |
Jun 5th, 2008
Coconut Chilli Chicken Noodles
So noodles then. Unfortunately with noodles, we’re a family at war. We all love them, but #2 likes stir fried chicken noodles with frozen peas (‘and NO juice’), #1 likes chilli, Hubby likes chilli and lots of soupy stock, I don’t mind chilli but prefer them with coconut milk… Oh the dilemma. This latest edition, then, is a kind of mixture of stuff that everyone likes. It went...
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English Mum |
Apr 6th, 2008
Kid-friendly Lasagne with no bits
Little Italian interlude today then. Hubby’s away so we’ve been stuffing ourselves with pasta (which he hates) and all thoughts of a Sunday roast were quickly discarded as we were all suddenly overtaken by an inexplicable need for lasagne. This, by the way, contains #1′s tried, tested and patented recipe for tomato sauce, which is the only one that his brother will eat, considering...
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English Mum |
Mar 22nd, 2008
Chicken, mushroom and bacon risotto
So we were all in need of a bit of comfort food last night. And this packet of bloody Carnaroli rice has been sitting in the cupboard glaring at me every time I go in there for a tin of beans. Me and risotto have a chequered history. It’s not that I don’t like it, oh no, it’s just that every time I make it, I get that kind of ‘hmmm’ response from my lot that means ‘yeah,...
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English Mum |
Oct 1st, 2007
Tamarind Chicken Noodles
So you’ll like this one. Hubby, being a bit weird, can’t eat pasta at all – makes him gag, apparently (oh the drama). But he loves noodles, which as far as I’m concerned are exactly the same as pasta so I just substitute one for the other. When he comes home late from work I often put some noodles on as they’re quick and knock this chicken up, or sometimes I just do the chicken...
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English Mum |
Apr 12th, 2007
Kind of Chinese
We had a right laugh yesterday. C&J came to dinner and I decided to rustle up a dodgy approximation of a Chinese meal. Actually, it went really well and although not particularly authentic, it tasted okay. I had that last-minute flap when everything suddenly either became ready or needed doing at the last minute, but that’s the beauty of having friends round, because they either don’t care, or...
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English Mum |
Sep 23rd, 2006
Chaos and Carbonara
#2 has a friend to stay this weekend. The house is in chaos: this being Saturday there’s the usual festering rugby kits humming by the back door, and now there’s running sucker-gun battles in the hall (thanks for those by the way, Dad) and the lounge is a sea of lego. We’ve already had arguments over whose turn it is on Star Wars and over who is James Bond. My nerves are completely frazzled...
