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Domestic diversions
Oct. 30th, 2007 09:24 pmI would have posted this yesterday, but I was so excited by the fact that I will shortly have a supported AV/antispam on our mail servers, I didn't get round to it until now (much like Trend Micro, in fact).
I had a nice weekend. The CDL came over on Saturday night, and I experimented with a Middle-Eastern type sauce to go with my snapper-of-the-year (although I was pissed off by the fish shop selling "baby" snappers - why? Haven't these idiots heard of depleted fish stocks?). It was accompanied by a simple pilau rice I make, accompanied by xtra yummy fresh peas from the garden (go us!), and fresh parsley and coriander (ditto). I did something slightly strange with fresh green beans, and if I had been thinking, I would have made beans in a tomatoey marinade - it would have gone well. Still, since I'm going to foist these recipes on you all anyway, I'll put the nice bean recipe in there too.
On Sunday, I went over to the CDL and the Bear's to properly appreciate the fantastic roses that have gone totally berserk in the front garden. Tea and tea cake was provided and it was Most Civilised. Oh, except that Junior Pooch tried his best to put out one of my front teeth with his hard skull - no mark on him. But hey, the swelling's gone down now, and sometimes when one is getting exuberant loves, one has to take the consequences. :-) We did a little bit of fossicking around in the garden, and I'm glad we've been getting rain.
Well, all this assorted yummitude more than makes up for the horror of Summer Time. :-) The garden goings-on are being chronicled over in the garden blog, complete with funky rose pics, courtesy of Bear Professional Photography Services™.
Anyways, recipes! The fish sauce and the bean recipes are from Claudia Roden. I think the too-easy-for-words pilau rice came from the Beeb website.
The recipes are for two, but I actually think you could do two moderately-sized fish in the amount of sauce that the recipe makes, or one huge one. I used snapper, but any firm white-fleshed fish will be good.
( mmm, tastee! )
I had a nice weekend. The CDL came over on Saturday night, and I experimented with a Middle-Eastern type sauce to go with my snapper-of-the-year (although I was pissed off by the fish shop selling "baby" snappers - why? Haven't these idiots heard of depleted fish stocks?). It was accompanied by a simple pilau rice I make, accompanied by xtra yummy fresh peas from the garden (go us!), and fresh parsley and coriander (ditto). I did something slightly strange with fresh green beans, and if I had been thinking, I would have made beans in a tomatoey marinade - it would have gone well. Still, since I'm going to foist these recipes on you all anyway, I'll put the nice bean recipe in there too.
On Sunday, I went over to the CDL and the Bear's to properly appreciate the fantastic roses that have gone totally berserk in the front garden. Tea and tea cake was provided and it was Most Civilised. Oh, except that Junior Pooch tried his best to put out one of my front teeth with his hard skull - no mark on him. But hey, the swelling's gone down now, and sometimes when one is getting exuberant loves, one has to take the consequences. :-) We did a little bit of fossicking around in the garden, and I'm glad we've been getting rain.
Well, all this assorted yummitude more than makes up for the horror of Summer Time. :-) The garden goings-on are being chronicled over in the garden blog, complete with funky rose pics, courtesy of Bear Professional Photography Services™.
Anyways, recipes! The fish sauce and the bean recipes are from Claudia Roden. I think the too-easy-for-words pilau rice came from the Beeb website.
The recipes are for two, but I actually think you could do two moderately-sized fish in the amount of sauce that the recipe makes, or one huge one. I used snapper, but any firm white-fleshed fish will be good.
( mmm, tastee! )
