Posie’s Place

This recipe comes from the New Covent Garden Soup Company’s  - Soup & Beyond book.  I can really recommend the Covent Garden cookbooks as I have a couple and so far all the recipes I’ve tried have always been delicious.  They saved my bacon on Christmas Day when I had a soup disaster and found I had all the ingredients for the Lentil and Bacon soup in the cupboard!!

Anyway, back to the risotto.  We were shopping at a local farm last weekend, at this time of year the local produce is amazing and they had some really great looking green and yellow courgettes so we bought a load and then weren’t sure what to make with them.  Mid week Stewart was looking through the cookbooks trying to find inspiration and the Covent Garden book fell open at this page and he decided to test it out. It was simply divine!  Really tasty!  Matthew loved it too as he had a little bit for lunch the next day!

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This is a really side dish which I came across a few weeks ago and we’ve had it as quite a few times since.  It’s really great with grilled chicken or anything off the barbeque.  The recipe appeared in a show called Food Poker and the chef was Lawrence Keogh.

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I really adore Spaghetti Carbonara and it’s one of Stewart’s favourite’s too!  We’ve been looking for a simple and authentic recipe for a while and this one ticked all the boxes.

This recipe comes courtesy of Nigella Lawson’s Feast.

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We tried this recipe for the first time a few weeks ago, it was featured on Saturday Kitchen broadcast on BBC1.  It takes a little bit of time but it is a really tasty.

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My little boy turned 1 last month!  The past year has flown by so quickly I can’t believe he’s a little boy already!

On Saturday our son’s nursery had an open day and they asked if the parent’s wouldn’t mind bringing something along to be sold.  I volunteered to bring a cheesecake since I’m not the greatest baker in the world and this has got to be my favourite dessert and also one of the easiest!  See what you think.

This recipe is a combination of a Nigel Slater recipe and my friend Sue’s recipe.  It’s deliciously naughty!

This version I flavoured with orange and lemon but you can omit the orange juice and rind and top with freshly chopped strawberries for a really delicious alternative.

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It’s wonderful to be back in the world of blogging!!  My first recipe is a nice and simple affair.

This recipe was featured on BBC2’s show Something For The Weekend by Simon Rimmer and was first broadcast on Sunday 8th June.

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After quite a break, some technical issues, a new host and going back to work full time, I’m finally back in business!!!

I’ve got a couple of recipes to share and will post them soon!

Things have been on the quiet side here again for a while with very good reason, we’ve been moving house. After our new arrival last year we decided that it was time we considered moving out of the city and into the countryside and so we began searching for a new home. We found our new place at the end of last year but had to give our notice to our last place so I feel as if this has all been a long time coming.

The move went pretty smoothly and now we’ve been in 3 weeks and I just LOVE our new place!! I’ve never lived in the countryside so for me this is all brand new! We have a farm at the end of the road and the forest on our doorstep.

I’m really looking forward to the summer and making the most of our new surroundings and getting back into growing some veg and herbs in our garden.

I was a little worried about changing Kanton and all of the administrative complications that entailed but so far everything has been pretty straight forward.
Our little boy is not so little and is 9 1/2 months old already! Soon the summer will be here and he’ll be walking (and chasing our cats!)

The house is almost organized so I’m hoping to try out some new recipes on my new cooker over the coming weeks.

Tschüss for now

Pamela

After making my steak pie the other day I had some puff pastry left over and went hunting for a recipe to use it up and so I came across this nice little recipe from James Martin. It took minutes to make and was really delicious.

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