Dinner at Barbaras

A dinner consisting of nibles and wine and as much girlie chat as you can fit into one saturday night is the thing of dreams. It was nothing overly exciting, some nice stromboli bread from markies, along with prawns, chicken, onion bhajis, and cheese and copious amounts of white wine it hits the spot and it's a winner!

Barbara still thinks it's funny that I take photographs of food, but what does she know?

Various dinners over the week

Tomatoes and rocket on toast with markies garlic and parsley prawns

Chicken stirfry - which rich made and it was awesome! He's much better at stir fries than me!

Chicken Kiev, markies ultimate mash (which is indeed ultimate) and spaghetti.

Chicken breast stuffed with charles macleod black pudding - the best black pudding in the world!

Markies chicken legs and thighs, washed down with wine - delicious!

Vietnamese Spring Rolls

I tried my hand at making Vietnamese spring rolls, I picked the wrappers up in the chinese supermarket for less than a quid!

I cooked off some prawns with some five spice and I planned to serve the rolls cold. I mixed those with some shredded carrots, beansprouts, mushrooms, and rice noodles and maybe some other stuff but I can't remember now.

You have to put the wrappers into hot water to make them flexible which is quite weird and I found them quite hard to work with, perhaps practise would make it easier.

I liked them but Richard thought they would be hot like the normal spring rolls you get in the chinese, so we decided to fry one and see what it would be like. Rich prefered them fried, I liked them cold, more fresh on the mouth if you know what I mean.

The dip is just the Yakatori left over from the chicken I made the other week - that sauce would make any old shite taste good!

Thursday 1st April - Prawns - Markies

Tonight I had Markies garlic and parsley prawns, they were awesome, the picture I took of them, not so much. Sorry no picture but a nice smelly breath.

I love garlic!