Adventures in cooking

Jamie says that not everyone puts the same effort into cooking that I do. He said this on Saturday night after a wonderful meal, cooked by me. He says alot of people just wouldn't bother doing the recipes that are too fiddly; I think that's rubbish.

Anyway, since I never seem to have anything to write on my blog I decided that I could tell you all about my cooking. I tend to do the more adventurous recipes at the weekend - I just don't have the time or energy during the week. So this blog is going to (hopefully) get a bit more foodie in the future; that or I'll go back to 'no posting' like some people.

Now when I say adventurous, I don't think I am; I find recipes online or in Waitrose or in some of the books I have and just do them. I have a tendancy to make most things only once and then get bored with it.

So this weekend...
Saturday:
Surfing the net on Friday afternoon at work (I know, tsk, tsk and all that) I found a recipe website. I was curious to see what I'd find under 'Irish' in the Cuisine section. Well I found this and I can tell you I never had this as a child - but it did turn out very nice. I was most impressed with the mash, which was creamy, obviously, and will probably cause a heart-attack in one or both of us (me and Jamie, that is) if I were to ever make it again.
I was very proud of dessert, which was this - foil baked strawberries with Pimms and clotted cream. As I only required a couple of cups of Pimms for the recipe and the smallest bottle I could find was 75cl, we ended up spending the rest of Saturday evening working our way through the bottle. Pimms and lemonade makes me very giggly :-)
We watched Serenity on DVD and then tottered off to bed.

Sunday:
Nothing too crazy here; I made Red Pepper risotto, which I got from a vegetarian cookbook I have. I underestimated how long it would take to grill the peppers and how fiddly it would be to peel them once cooled. Well we eventually got dinner at 9pm. I thought it was delicious but Jamie, it turns out, hates risotto. Apparently, he let me cook it because he knew I really wanted to. He's so sweet, he even emptied his plate.
Due to the lateness of dinner there was no dessert on Sunday.