Stuffed aubergine

Augergine (UK)
Onions (home grown)
Garlic (Spain)
Tinned tomatoes (Italy)
Spinach (UK)
Lettuce (Spain)
Artichokes (Italy)
Parmesan (Italy)
Mozzarella (Italy)

Stir-fried Tofu

As proof of the strange weather this Autumn we're still harvesting courgettes on our allotment. There's also still some spinach which will no doubt make an appearance on HMT sometime this week.

Courgettes (home grown)
Onions (home grown)
Green pepper (Spain)
Noodles (Belgium)
Pak Choi (Berkshire)
Carrots (UK)

Taramasalata

Yesterday I was mostly eating taramasalata- I didn't take a picture of it so you'll have to take my word for it. We did however, go for a nice walk in North Wales. This is a view of Canarvon bay and the Lleyn Peninsula.

Rotolo di Zucca

This was another one adapted from Jamie's Italy. We had friends round for dinner at short notice and I foolishly decided to cook the most complicated dish in the entire book. It tasted amazing though- so yet again I am reluctantly forced to salute the magic of the nation's favourite hamster faced burger botherer.

Flour (Italy)
Eggs (UK)
Squash (unknown origin)
Spinach (UK)
Parmesan (Italy)
Butter (UK)


Ice cream (made in the UK)

Pasta

It's been a long week. I found this picture on my camera- It's supermarket pasta with sauce but I can't actually remember eating it.

All ingredients unknown origin.

Sole in a cream and garlic sauce

The sauce was adapted from something in the Cafe Paradiso cookbook and involved an entire bulb of roast garlic reduced in white wine and cream- absolutely blinding. We did our shopping on-line this week as we've been really busy. One of the frustrating things about this is that you can't source where your food is coming from- so the sweet potatoes are probably from Argentina or Polynesia or the moon or somewhere.

Sole (Scotland)
Potatoes (home grown)
Sweet potatoes (unknown origin)
Greens (UK)
Cream (UK)
Garlic (Spain)
White wine (Australia)

Thai takeaway

This is an actual picture of chilli sauce. Anything this colour can't be good for you.



All ingredients unknown origin.

Stuffed Pepper with Risotto

Arborio rice (Italy)
Parmesan (Italy)
Peppers (Spain)
Borlotti Beans (Italy)
Mushrooms (UK)
Mozerella (Italy)

Stuffed Pumpkin

Pumpkin (home grown)
Onions (home grown)
Cheese (UK)
Garlic (UK)
Green beans (home grown)
Potatoes (home grown)

Pan-fried trout/Apple Crumble

Trout (UK)
Butternut squash (France)
Spring greens (UK)


Apples (UK)
Flour
Butter
Sugar

Aubergine Parmigania

From Jamie Oliver's new book. Hats off to TV's scary-faced golden boy- a winner.

Aubergines (unkown origin)
Garlic (Spain)
Mozzarella (Italy)
Parmesan (Italy)
Tomatoes (Italy)
Onions (home grown)
Basil (home grown)
Breadcrumbs (UK)

Pizza

Ok- after a couple of days of gastroponcing about in that London it's back to earth (and Liverpool) with a supermarket Pizza and some bagged salad.

Pizza ('manufactured in the UK')
Mixed leave Salad (Spain)
Tomatoes (Lincolnshire)
Avacado (unknown origin)

Because this meal is very boring I'm also including a picture of Chris Burden's Flying Steamroller which we witnessed over the weekend outside Chelsea college of art.

Lovely

Ate in Britain's loveliest urban pub in Britain's loveliest urban square; the Scarsdale Tavern on Edwardes Square in Kensington. It manages to be extremely posh whilst at the same time retaining the sense of being a genuine local boozer for local residents (even if those locals were wearing either hand-made brogues or Helmut Lang trainers). It's probably the fact that despite being about 100 yards from Kensington High Street it's pretty much tucked away. Really great pub grub (home-made fish-cakes and chips), fantastic chocolate cake and well-kept real ale. Nice.

Trout at the Portrait

We ate at the Portrait restaurant which is on the fifth floor of the National Portrait Gallery. Didn't manage to get a picture of the food because it was too dark but it was very good- pan fried trout with a kind of broken pea base. It's a pretty special place to watch the sun go down across the rooftops of London as well.

Spinach Soup

Potatoes (home grown)
Spinach (home grown)
Onions (home grown)
Cream (UK)

Salad

Cheese (UK)
Lettuce (Norfolk)
Tomatoes (Lancs)
Beetroot (UK)
Pepper (Unknown origin)

Wild Salmon

Wild Salmon (Alaska)
Spinach (home grown)
Potatoes (home grown)

Noodles

Noodles (Belgium!!!)
Soy sauce (China)
Onions (home grown)
Spinach (home grown)
'Jack-be-little' pumpkin (home grown)
Garlic (last of this year's home grown crop- :( as the kids are prone to writing these days)

The moral of this meal is that Jack-be-little' pumpkins are only fit for roasting- they had the texture of slightly damp cardboard boxes when stir-fried.

Sole 'Goujons'

Sole (UK)
Potatoes (home grown)

A load of rubbish

Was meeting some old friends for a beer on Friday so grabbed a quick burger which was completely inedible. Ended the night with an 'Indian meal' (and I use the term meal loosely) in an old haunt. Here are some of their meat products. I didn't eat any- thank the lord.

All ingredients (and species) of unknown origin.

Penne

Yer classic after work pasta dash.

Penne (Italy)
Tomatoes (Italy)
Parmesan (Italy)

Sunday Lunch

Potatoes (home grown)
Green beans (home grown)
Carrots (UK)
Eggs (UK)
Chard (home grown)
Gravy (UK)
Cashew nuts ('product of more than one country')
Onions (home grown)
Flour (UK)

Stuffed Courgette Flower

Courgette flower/courgette (home grown)
Yellow tomatoes (home grown)
Red tomatoes (Italy)
Rocket (UK)
Potatoes (home grown)
Avacado (unknown origin)
Pine nuts ('origin of more than one country')
Cheese (UK)

More Sole

Clearly on a fish tip at the moment. This was great.

Lemon Sole (Atlantic)
Brocolli (UK)
Potatoes (home grown)
Pine nuts ('product of more than one country')

Artichoke Salad

Rocket (UK)
Yellow cherry tomatoes (home grown)
Pine nuts ('product of more than one country')
Parmesan (Italy)
Red onions (home grown)
Artichokes (Italy)

Lemon Sole with Rosti and Courgette

Sole (Altantic)
Potatoes (home grown)
Courgette (home grown)