King Prawn Curry with Spinach

Prawn curry with spinach, with the basic recipe stolen from the 'Jono and Jules do food and wine' site. https://jonoandjules.com/2018/07/30/prawn-spinach-curry/

I skipped the extra sugar, and the coriander, but otherwise it is very similar. I created some creamed coconut, and mixed it all together with the Madras curry powder and the tomato puree. I added lots of diced spinach.

The rice was steamed earlier in the day, and spinach and the peas were added. The king prawns (from Vietnam) were added to the top of the steamed rice, and steamed once again for fifteen minutes.

Served with the tomato and curry salsa. Delicious!

Pollo Napolitano

Great Italian chicken dish, simmered very slowly under glass (for forty minutes) after sealing with a brief stir-fry, along with four cloves of garlic. I made the neapolitan salsa in the same pan, adding the various ingredients one by one (including the tomato puree), stirring frequently.

The peas were fresh from the Co-op, so I spent ten minutes or so extracting the peas from the pods. Cooked separately in salted water for ten to fifteen minutes under glass.

Utterly delicious meal! Often eaten with a dressing of grated Parmigiano Regiano (or some other Italian cheese), but the dish is fine all by itself. 

Baked Potato with Ground Lamb

The baked potato was begun first, with a little butter, in a roasting tray in an oven heated to 190 deg C. It took one hour and fifteen minutes to cook (not wrapped in tin-foil). Check every fifteen minutes, particularly if you don't have an oven thermometer.

From the fridge I took the Fresh ground minced lamb I cooked a couple of days ago, which had been browned and then simmered under glass for two hours. Then I added diced mushrooms, lamb stock, oregano, and two bay leaves. Then simmered again under glass for another 45 minutes, with some onion gravy granules.

I added diced spinach leaves and spring onion, plus half of a chopped yellow pepper. Serve hot.

Ground Lamb and Mushrooms, with Brocolli Spears

Fresh ground minced lamb, browned and then simmered under glass for two hours. Then I added diced mushrooms, lamb stock, oregano, and two bay leaves.

 Simmered again under glass for another 45 minutes, with some onion gravy granules. Served with Brocolli spears, cooked in salted water for ten minutes under glass.
 

Smoked Haddock Risotto

Smoked Haddock, baked in the oven for sixteen minutes at 150 deg C. Broken up with a fork, and mixed with basmati rice and garden peas, stir-fried in a little olive oil.
 

Apple and Mango Fruit Salad

A simple and delicious fruit salad made with fresh slices of Gala apple, chopped mango (yellow and orange), plus black grapes. Kept in the fridge with some demerara sugar for a week, and turned occasionally.

Decanted into a bowl with the juice from the mango pieces, and dressed in some single cream.
 

Pork and Leek Stew, with Red Peppers

Stir fried diced leek, cooked until it began to brown a little, then boiling water was added. The pot was covered and simmered gently for an hour and a half.  Add two red chillies. The pork stock and herbs were added ten minutes before serving.

The pork loin steak was diced and stir fried in a separate pan until the pieces began to brown. Then the pork pieces were added to the leek sauce and stirred through. The diced red pepper was added after an hour and also stirred through. 

Served with boiled basmati rice. 
 

Pork Shoulder Steak, with Green Beans

Pork Shoulder steak, cooked at a medium heat for twelve minutes on each side. Served with hash browns (ten minutes on each side), and green beans, boiled under glass for seven minutes. Topped with chunks of pineapple.

Potato, Spinach, and Polish Sausage Casoulet

A simple casoulet begun as a stirfry of diced polish sausage, diced potato, spring onion, quartered button mushrooms, chopped green beans. I used a drizzle of olive oil. 

Cooked for about an hour at a medium heat. Then I added boiling water, along with some vegetable stock, plus chopped spinach, and the herbs sage and tarragon. Cooked for a further forty-five minutes. 

 

Clementine segments with Black Grapes

No instructions really necessary here. Clementine segments, black grapes and cream. Add cinnamon if you wish. 

 

Breaded Haddock (oven cooked) and grilled chips

 Shop-bought breaded haddock (Sainsbury's), cooked on the middle shelf of the oven for twenty minutes at 150 deg C. Judge progress by eye, as well as by the oven thermometer. 

The chips were first parboiled for about eight minutes, then drizzled in sunflower oil in a glass roasting tray, and grilled for another fifteen minutes or so (again, judge by eye, and turn the chips at least once). The fish was dressed in a sprinkling of dried coriander on serving, along with some tomato ketchup. 

Pork Shoulder Steak, with a Leek and Coriander Sauce

 The shoulder steak was slow cooked in a skillet (medium to low heat) for 45 minutes, and turned once. I used olive oil as the cooking medium, but sunflower oil would do just as well. 

The leek was also slow cooked in olive oil before water was added to the sauce, along with vegetable stock, a squirt of tomato puree, grated carrot, diced fresh coriander, plus a shake of dried tarragon. Cooked the previous day.

Delicious and tender!

Mustard Ham Salad

Boiled potato, grated carrot, mustard ham, baby leaf salad, coriander leaf.

The coriander leaf was mixed with the baby leaf salad, and dressed in some olive oil. Served with a little American mustard.

 

Fruit salad, with Clementines, Black Grapes, and mixed nuts

A simple fruit salad made with clementine segments, black grapes, and mixed nuts (in this case walnuts, cashew, almonds). Dressed in single cream (yoghurt will do as well). Fabulous and healthy dish which takes a couple of minutes to make.