Lorne Sausage, with Spiced Beans and Peppered Chips

 Great Sunday breakfast, based around two slices of Lorne Sausage. One sliced tomato and five mushrooms were cooked in the same skillet. 

The peppered potato chips were roasted in the oven, after being dressed in some olive oil. Cooked from scratch in about 40 minutes. The beans were cooked on the hob for about ten minutes, after the addition of the herbs and spices. The entire dish was added to some diced spinach leaves. 

Delicious! That's about as good as it gets with Lorne Sausage. Much better than just serving it with fried eggs.

Chicken Stir Fry

 Chicken Stir Fry with diced carrot, chilli, red onion, mushroom, yellow pepper, two colours of cabbage, and soy sauce. The chicken was pre-roasted in the oven, and then diced. The stir fry took five minutes at a high heat, stirring frequently. 

Vegetable Stir-Fry

 Pretty straightforward and tasty dish. Everything diced and sliced apart from the bean sprouts and the red chillies. Cook for five minutes at a high heat. 

Strawberries, Sweet Sherry, and Single Cream

 The strawberries were chopped up to increase their surface area, before being dusted with demerara sugar. Left in the fridge to allow the strawberry juice to come out of the strawberry pieces. Stirred occasionally until all of the sugar was dissolved in the strawberry juice. 

Soused in a little sweet sherry, and then decanted into a bowl of single cream. 

Chicken Torunska

 Another simple dish, made with diced torunska sausage and chicken, plus carrot and leek. Fried, and then I added water and tomato puree. Cooked for half an hour. The sweet potato wedges were cooked in a lidded casserole dish, after being soused in some vinegar, paprika, rosemary and basil. Plus a little black pepper. For about forty minutes (watch by eye).

Beef and Chickpea Curry

 Excellent beef curry, made with ground Scotch beef. The chickpeas were softened in a slow cooker over several hours, and the beef was browned in a flat pan in a little olive oil for an hour and a half at a low to medium heat. I added diced mushrooms, a red chilli, and a julienned red onion. 

Water was added to the beef along with the chickpeas, and was simmered for a couple of hours, after which the herbs and spices were added. The Madras curry powder was the most important of these. 

Served with some fresh coriander, Basmati rice, and Pataks Lime pickle. 

Grilled Cumberland Sausage with Baked Beans

 Cumberland Sausage used to be strongly flavoured with sage and other herbs. Hard to find instances of those any more - they taste pretty much the same as other pork sausages. 

These sausages were grilled until browned (judge by eye), and served with baked beans infused with some sage (to make up the flavour deficit of the modern product). Also good if served with a sage flavoured gravy. 

Leek and Streaky Bacon Soup

 I made this with some streaky bacon, fried at a medium heat for about ten minutes. Streaky bacon is hard to cut even with a sharp knife (lots of fat) , so you might want to chop it into pieces with kitchen scissors instead. Add a little cooking oil. 

Then I added diced leek, cut into circles, and stir fried under glass for about twenty-five minutes, with a little salt. While that combination was cooking, I grated a medium sized carrot. I added that to the mix, and added boiling water. Cooked under glass at a low heat for about an hour and a half. Stir occasionally. Then I added a half a pork stock cube, and a little paprika. Fabulous soup!

Salmon Fillet, and Black Bean Rice

 Delicious meal. An oven roasted salmon fillet (19 minutes, drizzled in olive oil), served on a bed of chopped spinach leaves (raw). I boiled some rice with a little turmeric and then drained the rice thoroughly. Mixed with black bean sauce. 

Smoked Ham and Spinach Leaves

 A simple salad, based on some smoked ham, spinach leaves, stuffed olives and grated carrot (dressed in some horseradish sauce). Easy to prepare, and delicious. 

Diced Pepperoni Omelette

 A not terribly complicated omelette made with beaten egg (of course), tomato, mushroom, diced yellow pepper, spring onion, and diced pepperoni sausage. Fabulous dish. The beaten egg mixture was added after seven minutes. Cooked in a skillet at a medium heat for ten minutes, and then under glass for another seven minutes or so (judge by eye). 

Pepperoni Salad

 Slices of pepperoni sausage, served with stuffed olives, diced red pepper, and wheat free pasta dressed in dried basil. Great salad. 

Blueberry and Mixed Nut Salad

 A pretty straightforward fruit and nut salad, and highly nutrititious. Blueberries from the fridge, plus a nut selection from the supermarket. Soused in single cream, and dressed in cinnamon. Delicious!

Poached Egg with fried Wheat-free bread

 Egg poached in water inside a silicon container. Ten minutes, half under glass. The bread was drizzled in olive oil and browned in a skillet. Delicious. 

Pasta Salad, with grated carrot and diced red onion

 Delicious, but there is not much to this one. Wheat free pasta cooked in salted water for about twelve minutes, and then dusted with powdered paprika. Served with a grated carrot, and about one third of a red onion diced. Dress in a little freshly ground black pepper. 

Chicken in Black Bean Sauce, with Basmati Rice

 Diced chicken breast in a black bean sauce, along with diced spring onion and turmericed basmati rice. 

Honey Ham Salad, with Olives

Simple dish made with honey ham trimmings, a trio of olives (some stuffed), diced baby plum tomatoes, fresh coriander leaves, and some turmericed basmati rice.