A new regular posting theme for me. Well actually it will be
the previous weeks menu. In an attempt to truly web log what we serve on the
menu at the Hut, I’ve decided over the weekend to take a photo of our dinner
each night over the next year.
The iPhone has helped me document things pictorially
recently and looking at the photos, a lot of them are food related.
I think it will be interesting to see what we do eat, and
how repetitive we are.
If it gets too boring I may not post them- but it might spur
us onto culinary variety, you never know. Hopefully there aren’t too many
pictures of scrambled eggs on toast or vegemite on toast!
This week is not complete but there were some memorable
meals so here goes:
Monday and Tuesday
Chef: Rob
Beef shin, mushroom and stout pie with mash topping (a
tweaking of Matthew Evan’s recipe in his latest book, Winter on the Farm) and
peas.
Rating: Pretty good, beef perfectly tender, but needed
something to give the sauce some more depth of flavor.
Wednesday (sorry no photo)
Chef: Rob
Pasta carbonara.
Rating: The go to meal for comfort and ease- Nigella Lawson
recommends it as a meal to serve with your lover the first time he stays over,
preferably in bed.
Given we’re an old married couple now, we eat it quite
civilly at the table! We used some real eggs from our friend’s chooks so the
sauce was a nice saffron colour.
Thursday
Chef: Rob (I’m not doing well here am I?)
Pumpkin, mushroom, spinach and pistachio risotto
Rating: Colourful and an unusual but satisfying flavour
combination. Next day we ate the leftovers for lunch with out the nuts and
missed them for the crunch they added.
Friday
Chef: Our equivalent of a take away meal
Cheese selection from Bottega Rotolo: Delice Cremiers, Brie
and Parmigiano Reggiano. Fig and walnut rye baguette and a rocket and fennel
salad. Oh and a bottle of Cotes du Rhone.
Rating: Delice Cremiers cheese a standout, a light textured
cheese like whipped butter, slightly fruity but with a surprisingly clean acid
finish. Which meant we could eat it all!
Saturday
Chefs: Rob (main) me (dessert)
Rump steak with Nicola potato chips and spinach.
Cherry and almond cake
Rating: Rob loves to use his Weber BBQ. Steak and chips is always going to be a
winner in this household. We just have to remember to save a tiny morsel for
each dog, otherwise they sulk for the rest of the evening. My cake was a new
recipe for me, using some gorgeous dark coloured glace cherries. I was a little
worried I’d cooked it too long, but with a dollop of cream and a spoonful of
cherry conserve it was a pretty good pudding (if I do say so myself).
Sunday
Chefs: Rob and me (terrible I know on Father’s Day- but he
loves to use the Weber)
Souvlaki- slow roasted then grilled lamb shoulder, hummous,
cacik, green beans cooked in tomatoes and onions.
Poire belle Hélène with home-made vanilla ice-cream
Rating: Our favourite summer food was pulled out of the
repertoire a little early; the weather was beautiful at the Hut yesterday.
Nothing I like better than putting our food together at the table and then eating
it whilst the juices dribble down our chins. It’s not pretty but delicious. The
pears has been cooked for about 4 hours and were soft and spiced with the
vanilla and the red wine. Mmmm is all I can manage right now.
Well we’ll see what culinary delights the next week brings.
3 comments:
Oh, this was fun fun and inspiring for sure!
It looks like great food.
And those deserts - wow, to take time to make desert, I'm both impressed and inspired :-)
I look forward to following this new theme.
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It all looks so yummy Hazel. I have more misses than hits in the kitchen. Those cheeses look so naughty. Yum!
GREAT idea to post your meals for the week! I for one was reading avidly - I'm obviously a bit of a food voyeur as I love seeing what people eat, both everyday and for special occasions ;)
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