On Friday 10th, I decided to make a double batch of ruskie pierogi (potato and cheese dumplings), from the recipe in the SBS 'Feast' magazine, for dinner. This was a good idea because they were delicious. It was a bad idea because it took me two hours to make the dumplings (the entire toddler nap time, plus more) and I am severely out of practice kneading dough. When I rang Darren to complain, he pointed out that we have a dough hook on the mixer... Anyway, yum!
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| Ruskie pierogi. |
On Saturday 11th, Darren cooked some lovely rock ling in a herb batter, shallow fried, with chips and salad for us. I think that he combined a few recipes to do it and it worked out very, very well.
On Sunday 12th we were lucky enough to have Gill cook dinner for us (thank you!), but I did make some pseudo-crepe complete for lunch, using my vague crepe batter recipe (some flour, eggs, milk and salt, in a blender) with egg, ham, dill and cheese filling. Miss 1 is very impressed with these.
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| Pseudo-crepe complete - pre-folding. |
I invited myself over to dinner at Kat and Marc's house on Tuesday and they made a lovely dinner (thank you!). I'm feeling pampered.
On Wednesday 15th, I made a mushroom risotto again, but this time added feta cheese (and omitted the nuts and roquet) and had a side salad of cucumber, radish, roquet, tomato and carrot with a lemon and sugar dressing. Miss 1 ate way too much and followed up with yoghurt and strawberries, and subsequently a tummy ache and screaming all night long.
Last night, Thursday 16th, I slow-cooked a lamb tagine with peas and lemons (preserved lemons that I bottled last year) from 'A Little Taste Of Morocco'. Slow-cooking is good because I can make dinner during nap time and put it on the stove and then not have to worry about navigating toddlers and cooking. I added spinach, pumpkin and sweet potato and served with cous cous and sultanas. I do like a good tagine!
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| Lamb tagine with peas, lemons, pumpkin and spinach. |
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