Previous attempts: 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009

Last year's showing: rotten. Think we managed about 35 or so, but I completely failed to record anything after study got heavy. I'll try and do better this year :)

January

01 Baguette - (Trueille & Ferrigno, Bread, p. 79)
02 Caldereta de Cordero
03 Braised pork with fennel & borlotti
04 Ginger & ( Read more... )

Green almonds. Green almonds. Mate of hubby has given us a box of fresh'uns from his tree at home. Wow.

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Slow start; wait in sun for bus; nice long lunch with BF untainted by having-to-rush-back-to-meetings (and finally found a place that does proper egg noodle soup/dry); belated and unexpected birfday present (picture frames to encourage printing of photos, and most peculiar dessert item); dozy afternoon reading history of MI5 under cafe gas heater; ( Read more... )

Lovely sunny day. Still got flu ( Read more... )

Lovely day yesterday - home around 1:30am, zzzz,so not up to much today. Elena beautiful; other kids all growing up far too fast - all leggy girls and fidgety moody preteen boys. Not a good combination in a house not designed for gross motor activity. Hmmmmmm. Highlight: libertarian hubby of friend has clearly been Teaching his sons; they were ( Read more... )

Hubby has decided he's doing this too :) We're keeping his masterlist here because he's crap at writing things down (and in any case has no online presence or whathaveyou).

January

001 Beef Vindaloo (Baljekar, Mridula - 150 Curries)

February

002 Chili Meat with Curry Leaf (Baljekar)
003 Chicken Dopiaza (Baljekar)

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52 Recipes 2009

Hubby and I both enjoyed this one so much I'm doing it again. Credit once more to neadods from whom I stole the idea. (ETA 4 Jan: this time he's playing too...)

January

01 Cabeza y asadura de cordero a la Navarra (Cocina Tradicional: Navarra, p118)
02 Picadillo (Wise, Victoria - Mexican Cooking, p59 ( Read more... )

Mmmmmmmmm Anthony Bourdain on phoLooking forward to dinner tonight - hubby's colleague does wow Iranian spinach dish & lets mates at work try some. Hubby likes it so much he attempts to imitate at home, sans recipe - or rather with a sort of jumbledy list of things in his head that may or may not have been in it, plus Stuff He Felt Like Cooking. ( Read more... )

Mmmm. Home and sleepy from a friend's 40th... Pasteis de bacalhau, Bifinhos a Ze - sorry, no accents on this rotten keyboard - accompanied by a lovely unfamiliar dry white, a superb apple & rhubarb crumble, beautifully astringent long black, and a very nice Tawny Port. Friend trying to organise ski week/weekend/something with the guys at the ( Read more... )

Experimental; big thumbs-up from hubby. Just so's I remember ( Read more... )