Tonight’s birthday dinner for S was a modification of the lamb and beetroot pizza recipie from Notebook magazine (thanks Kathy!) Constructed as follows: Sliced a turkish bread in half Cut side up – spread on sundried tomato and garlic humus Added lamb (two lamb steaks sliced up finely, fried and then sprinkled with “Useful stuff” [...]
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Birthday dinner
Posted in cooking, tagged cooking, recipes on June 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Great weekend
Posted in Excursions, tagged Backbencher, beach, Levin, Medieval Market, Monet, recipes, squid, Te Papa, Wellington, Westpac Stadium on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Had a really enjoyable weekend – Simon’s sister Kath is over from the UK and she spent it with us. On Saturday we headed off to the Medieval Market in Levin which was fun then it was down to Wellington. We checked out the Monet exhibition and the colossal squid at Te Papa. Headed back [...]
In praise of the crock pot part 1
Posted in cooking, tagged cooking, crock pot, recipes on January 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We hosted Owen + Glennis for dinner on Wednesday night, to celebrate Owen’s birthday. I went for my failsafe dinner option, the Moroccan lamb dish. I first sampled at our work Christmas lunch (courtesy of Di). The recipie is here . I cooked it in the crockpot so I left out the lamb stock, tomato juice and [...]