Yearly Archives: 2011
Four Seas Makizushi
After the housewarming, I had a leftover kiwfruit which enabled me to recreate the first ever time I came across a kiwifruit sushi roll and a ‘four-seas’ roll. With the salad leaves in the garden established, I also nicked some for a simple side salad. And it couldn’t of been a proper housewarming without a […]
New House Roast
“How pleasant is a pheasant!”. Finally moved into the new place dubbed ‘Ro House’ (oh, the fun with puns there) and things are settled enough to have food prepared in the kitchen. As a treat, we had roast pheasant with the trimmings – and there was plenty left over. Top tier contents: rice with black […]
Ragu & Garlic Butter Mushrooms
The ‘meat for the week’ was another ragu containing mushrooms, or would have if it wasn’t missed. Oh well, they are pretty good with garlic and butter! It’s another strange combination: the eggplant is miso flavoured. Top tier cotents: ragu, radish leaves and sorrel, miso eggplant, garlic butter sauted mushrooms. Bottom tier cotents: rice with […]
Simmered Kombu Rolls
Yvan has discovered that a south-east asian grocery near his work stocks umeboshi – and a very bright red (but tasty) variety at that! In addition: a good quality short grain rice. The previous evening there was a surplus of certain ingredients in the house and Yvan decided on cooking up something he hadn’t cooked […]
Healthy & Balanced
I’ve run out of white rice for now, so I have gone the healthy route: brown. I don’t really like the texture of brown rice unless it was paired with something saucy or strong flavoured, but going a more healthy route might be best considering all the springrolls I go through! Lunch contents: half a […]