Apologies for the slight sabbatical from the blog this week - we've been engaged with other things so this is a round up of Sunday to Thursday this week! We're still trying to be relatively healthy, although I was making the most of finally being able to eat a full meal so you'll have to excuse Monday's fish and chips, but here it is...
On Sunday we had Joe's stir fried udon noodles with teriyaki salmon, and very nice it was too! I love it when Joe cooks, and bless it seems to have fallen to him a bit more this week.
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| Teriyaki salmon and udon noodles |
Monday was the naughty fish and chips. Joe and I didn't really celebrate the bank holiday this year - whilst I had some work to do, Joe went home for the day to spend some time with the family. By the time he came home the last thing we were in the mood for was cooking (how very unlike us!) so it was straight to the freezer for fish and chips. At some point I'll cave and let him go the chippy for some real fish and chips, as the freezer version is always a bit disappointing, but that'll only be after A LOT of running and a very healthy week!
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| Fish, chips and peas |
On Tuesday I was back in the kitchen, knocking up stir fried noodles with spicy black bean prawns with yellow pepper and spring onions. It was pretty healthy and went down very well, especially with a nice glass of chenin blanc...woops. I think the booze ban may be delayed until May after all!
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| Spicy black bean prawns |
On Wednesday Joe was back in the kitchen. Bless, he had run home after a long day at work so was already pretty tired, and then received a call from me saying I was going to be working late so dinner was up to him! He did surprise me though, making a pasta bake with broccoli and cauliflower, which was very tasty.
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| Pasta baked with broccoli and cauliflower |
And finally on Thursday we headed to the Adelphi for @homage2fromage's latest cheese night - challenging cheese! I've been telling Nick for a while that I thought they should do some really filthy cheese. My favourite cheeses tend towards the face-melting, walking off the plate variety, which is often difficult to locate in the UK.
Well Nick and Vickie certainly came up with some pretty challenging cheeses - there were 8 to try and I liked all but 2 of them. My least favourites were the Stinking Bishop and the Oxford Isis, which had something of an air of cabbage/fish about it...gross! The best one by far was the Epoisses, which is washed in brandy and is banned on public transport in France for being so whiffy and the Reblechon was also very nice (I can see a trend with the French cheeses here). There were some superb varieties on offer and it was a great evening all round.
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| Just some of the rind washed cheeses |
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