Roasted garlic pasta

Some fresh green garlic from the garden, roasted with thyme and olive oil

I wish you could smell this! The garlic was still young, so it wasn't too strong - just a nice mellow flavour

I squeezed out the roasted garlic cloves, and cooked with a little double cream and some more thyme leaves, before adding to orecchiette

Out for a curry

Out to the Mumtaj - best curry house in St Albans

Dinner outside

Summer has finally arrived, so a relaxed dinner of penne carbonara outside

Out for lunch

Out to the Wicked Lady in Wheathmpstead - nice room, and good pub food. Main course only, so I went for the Pork Milanese

With some rosemary frites. Not really frites, but nice nonetheless.

Food for thought

Dinner out at The Duke of Cambridge in Islington, for the first 2degrees discussion dinner

Sustainably sourced and tasty food, starting with a roasted vegetable salad

Followed by lamb on a fregola salad

Food was great, as was the company

Smiths of Smithfield

An impromptu midweek burger at Smiths of Smithfield - great venue, and fantastic chips, but I still prefer the Byron Burger!

Father's day Sunday lunch

Rib eye steak with a peppercorn sauce, dauphinoise potatoes and sauteed courgettes

Roast duck

A slow roasted gressingham duck, with apples and potatoes roasted around the bird. Served with some freshly picked cabbage in jjuniper berries, and a red wine sauce.

Homemade garlic bread

Fresh green garlic from the garden, so some homemade garlic bread with plenty of parsley

Sunday leftovers

Leftover salmon, samphire and potatoes pepped up with chives, capers and lemon juice

Coated with flour, eggs and breadcrumbs, then shallow fried in sunflower oil

Served with a fresh green salad

Last of the brioche turned into pain perdu, with the remaining raspberries

Chicken tagine

Chicken thighs with fennel, coriander, olives and preserved lemons

Weekend summer lunch

WHole poached salmon

Served with suffolk marsh samphire

Jersey royal potatoes

Fresh raspberries

Chicken noodle soup

Fresh chicken stock with noodles and fried mushrooms, pak choi, chilli, ginger and garlic

Roasted aubergines

Roasted aubergines with a saffron yoghurt, basil leaves and roasted pine nuts