Spiced chicken with roasted cabbage

Ignore the crap photos.  We didn't expect this dinner to be as amazing as it was.  It was Indian spiced chicken that was cooked on top of a lump of cabbage. All the fatty yumminess of the chicken and spice soaked into the cabbage.  We cooked a simple spiced potato onion and pea side with lettuce and crispy flat bread.  Yum scrum.  That cabbage tasted like scollop .... kid you not!!!

Slow roasted tandoori chicken, roasted cauliflower, spiced potato, onion and peas and simple green lettuce.

Cabbage, who would have thought.  

Roasted cabbage.......... its an absolute dream.  It tastes meaty.  Cooked on the core so that it stays in tact, cabbage can cook for hours.  Tonight it roasted under tandoori spiced chicken legs, sitting on the fire for a few hours in a heavy pan, lid on then grilled off at the end.  The accompaniments were spiced potato, pea and fried onion.  With simple lettuce and crisp flat bread.  An utter complete delight.  

Tree lights and venison care of our Mayor....

We were given some gorgeous wild venison from our Mayor yesterday.  It is extraordinary is the local doe.  Very sweet.  We made a red wine doe stew.  We did a beautifully smooth parsnip and celeriac puree for the base of each bowl.  A very crisp shaved fennel salad, quickly cooked shaved cabbage.  The whole dish was deliciously light and crunchy and bizarrely elegant. It was absolutely delicious.  

We also had delivery of the outdoor solar powered lights we ordered the day before.  They are sooooooooooo pretty.  Andy hung them in our tree this pm.  Sooooooo cool.  

Panacotta for Christmas

I don't have photos for the recent version because they are on the other camera chip ...Just doing a note to self Nat...

1 level tsp tom yum curry paste
1 level tsp green curry paste
lemon grass smashed
Dash of turmeric
dash of fish sauce
100ml or so of coconut milk.
1/2 a gelatine leaf soaked in a little water.

Cabbage and Turkey

We are really enjoying Cabbage at the moment.  Red, white, whatever. We really love it.  It’s cheap.  It’s sweet when cooked properly. My best cabbage memories was as a kid and dad would cook it up in just the tiniest bit of butter and salt, very very thinly sliced.  We decided to cook it under a turkey leg.  To impart the sweet caramalised juice of the turkey into a big fat piece of cabbage on the core.  It was SCRUM!!!!!!!! We cooked it on the fire all day so no wastage in energy.  Yum scrum Khalas.  

Yummy dinners, cosy nights and very very cold mornings....

Speaks for itself...... little Nudge with his bestest friend.....

A rather chilly morning looking over the valley about to head out for a run 😨

Roast tandoori pork leg with roasted veg  (the battery was running out in the camera but believe me it was unreal) 

Tandoori chicken with roast veggies and fresh courgette

My Grandad's coal scuttle

My gorgeous grandad would have been so proud to see his coal scuttle in this very old home.  Thank you Flippy and Warren for this gift.  I treasure it.  It was your wedding present and you gave it back to me.  Unreal.  

We have a snail in the house ......

Pork Vindaloo....

This was utterly delicious.  Slow cooked on the fire all day.  Andy toasted and ground the masala, browned onions for ages, with tamarind, fresh tomatoes and vinegar with huge chunks of pork.....absolutely delicious served with crispy flat bread, turmeric basmati and green salad.  

Little Nudge found a piece of butter.... He loves butter, but then again he's French.  

Jutland, Denmark

We went to Men at Sea just north of Esbjerg today and drove further north along the coast.  Denmark has an incredible coast.  I had absolutely no idea how beautiful the north sea is from western Denmark.  I utterly loved it.  With the huge changes of seasons, beautiful Denmark in it’s pristine glory.  Yep.  Denmark is my type of place (if only they did France with the amazing cheese and wine and a tiny bit cheaper!!)

 Now back in Ribe taken from just outside our apartment (in my slippers)....