Name: bjg

This blog is about eating and drinking, shopping and cooking. Shopping, as far as possible, is done outside supermarkets: the weekly local market is the main source of food with occasional large purchases from specialist suppliers. Most cookery books consider cooking without shopping. But for most consumers shopping is done once a week; that means that menus have to be planned for the week, allowing for use of leftovers: for instance, a roast chicken on Sunday provides leftovers for a second meal and the bones provide stock for a soup or a risotto. Cooking is an evening meal for at least two adults: it has to be cooked fairly quickly. Weekend cooking can be more elaborate, and there will be occasional elaborate meals. Food is generally organic, seasonal, local. Local non-organic beats imported organic: fewer air-miles, more support for local growers, less damage to the environment. Cuisine, if it can be so called, is British/Irish, with occasional exotic influences. Favourite drinks are beer, wine, whiskey and whisky.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Friday
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Lunch cooked by a sister at my mother's house. For each of us: an avocado cut into four lengthways, with goats' cheese, pesto, tomato and basil in the gaps; the whole roasted. Very nice.

Dinner was Ashy's Green beans and potatoes from . Very quick, simple and good. I used the large frying-pan. I should perhaps have cooked the beans for a little longer, but their texture contrasted nicely with everything else. I had some cooked potatoes, so used them instead of raw, adding them later in the process. I had neglected to keep a tomato, so threw in some (organic) tomato puree instead, which worked well. However, wife found the taste of garlic too strong, though I used only two cloves instead of Ashy's 4--5 cloves.

Market again tomorrow, tra-la.

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