Dinner for two

A somewhat extravagant dinner for tow. Roasted a chicken

Served with roast potatoes and purple sprouting broccoli

Homemade rillettes

A simple but tasty supper. Sopme homemade pork rillettes with toast and cornichons

Sunday lunch

Some beautiful butternut squash, which I roasted with some roughly chopped garlic, sage, olive oil and seasoning

Roasted it until it was soft and smelled fantastic

Some was mashed and mixed into the risotto, some peeled and served on top. The whole dish was finished with some fried sage leaves

Friday dinner

Improvising a pasta sauce - with some purble sprouting broccoli, basil, penne and parmesan

Topped with some toasted pine nuts

Finished with a flapjack-topped sort of rhubarb crumble

Elaborate Sunday lunch

Lunch was a chicken experiment. Above, the ingredients for a creamy mushroom sauce - shallots, porcini and cut chantarelles

I poached the chicken gently in some chicken stock with bay leaves and carrots

I finished the chicken off by sauteeing it in butter, topped with a strained cream sauce, served with crushed parsley potatoes and purple sprouting broccoli

Pizza

Mascarpone and mushroom pizza, for lazy Saturday night food

Soup for Saturday

Celeriac and carrot soup, pepped up by a little cheese on toast on the side

Chisou

Chisou restaurant in London, for an evening of Sushi and Sake.

Started with a plate of superfresh sashimi. The tuna and salmon were as tasty as ever, but the suprise standout was the butterfish - front left

Followed by a large serving of vegetable tempura, with steamed rice

Plenty of sake to accompany the food

Finished with chilled plum wine, with a plum in

Sausages

Plump cumberland sausages from the local butcher

Comforting midweek dinner

A large bowl of macaroni cheese

Cooked breakfast

Bacon, scrambled eggs and mushrooms

Excellent dinner

Roast pork with crackling, with pommes puree, roasted carrots and a little cabbage

Seasonal dessert

Rhubarb compote with a ginger meringue and a little cream cheese

Darcy's

A birthday meal out at Darcy's in St Albans. Champagne cocktails to start

Carpaccio of tuna

Fillet steak with tarragon butter

Cocktail excellent, tuna adequate, steak merely ok - not that rare, and the butter was very icy

Lanzarote cuisine

A week in Lanzarote, with some excellent food.

I'll let the photos talk for themselves - a combination of rural Bodegas, fine dining and seaside ice creams!