Kaeng Kua bamboo shoot Thai curry

Very hot! Bit heavy on the bamboo. The recipe calls for a lot of chicken, I used mushroom instead, but perhaps need more or something different next time - tofu or mock meat perhaps?

Sauce is coconut based.

Eggs en cocotte

Variation of the classic French dish. Under what you can see is some well cooked and well seasoned (and nutmeg) mushrooms and onion. Then you break an egg over it, add some double cream, then top with cheese.

Into a hot oven for 15 mins (in a large roasting pan filled with boiling water so it comes halfway up the smaller containers)

Very rich, but good!

Spring rolls

My famous (ish) Thai spring rolls. Better when just cooked and crispy!

Beansprouts, sweet thai basil, galangal, soy, lime juice, shitake, cabbage, tofu... Deep fried. They taste a lot better than these re-heated ones normally!

Usual Saturday breakfast

Mock bacon, wilted spinach with garlic and butter, fried egg on bagel with cheddar cheese.

Caribbean stew

Great stew. It is spicy with a tomato, coconut and jerk base. Also contains potato, kidney beans and spinach. it is finished with some chopped avocado....

A local pasty

Sometimes you need to lower your standards...

Sushi lunch

I love sushi. Vegetarian sushi is easier and easier to come by these days.

Cereal with yogurt

Standard breakfast fare.

The wife's mock fish cakes

Not bad!

Vegetable samosas

From an North-Western Indian recipe. The filling varies but typically contains mashed potato, onion, peas, spices and cheese. Then deep fried.

Stir Fry

Stir fry for lunch, kale with tofu and fried flat noodles.

Healthy (ish) lunch

Tomato bread, cheese and onion bahjis (alingan), rocket, tomato, brie, Garstang blue cheese, mushroom pâté.

Quesadilla Lunch

A common classic for us - tortillas filled with refried beans, a spicy salsa (tomato, pepper, chilli, onion, spices) and cheese. Then grilled or cooked in a hot oven until brown. Served with yoghurt or sour cream, chilli sauce and guacamole (if you have it!).

Breakfast from Banger Bros

At Victoria Train Station - a veggie sausage on a bun, with some salad, (mild) chilli and alioli.

Not bad, but too much alioli and the sausage is a 'made from vegetables' type, which I find a bit unsatisfying...

Canneloni

Mushroom-stuff canneloni, with a tomato sauce. The stuffing is really just mushroom and onion with some cheese, the sauce just tomato with some herbs - wonderfully simple meal.

Turnip Rosti

Yes, well, I had a turnip to use up. That's fake bacon around the edge, and some tofu I fried (I had to use that up too).

A real dog's dinner this one, nothing matched up.

Turnip rosti is disappointing...

Risotto on Toast

Should be a lunchtime classic :)

Leek risotto, very creamy, very good.

Left over soup

That is, soup made from left-overs in the fridge.

All the vegetables, boiled up with some stock, then blended.

Not bad, but a bit odd...

Chocolate cake

Home-made chocolate cake with coffee. Made with ground nuts instead of flour - great stuff!

Classic Breakfast

We eat this brekfast a lot :)

Fried egg, fake bacon, patat rissole (potatoes fried with onion), and spinach (wilted with garlic and a knob of butter).