Potato Dauphinoise

This is potato dauphinoise. Doesn't look like much but tastes fantastic and is pretty easy to make. It's pretty easy to get right too - you can't really go wrong with cream and butter. Don't let the calories put you off though..

This was based on a Greg Wallace recipe, you can find one version here. My version is based on a slightly different recipe that adds knobs of butter between the layers.

Chicken Meatballs and Vegetables

Here's something my other half made, chicken meatballs with vegetables:

Banana Mystery Solved

So the mystery turned out to be the cooking leftovers for this:

Some cute cakes my daughter made. But where's the banana?

Aha. So that solves that. These were very tasty.

Banana Murder Mystery

I found this in the fridge a few days ago:

Mysterious.

I wasn't sure if it was meant as a gift or as some kind of sinister warning, so I ate a bit.

It was quite tasty, but how did it get here?

To be continued..

Baked Salmon

Here's a bit of tray baked salmon with a few veggies:

Pork and Noodles

Here's a bit more home cooking, just made pork and noodles for lunch. Really enjoyed it!

It was based loosely on this Jamie Oliver recipe: Oriental Pork and Noodles but with fewer ingredients. The veggies I used were spring onion, ginger, garlic and spinach, plus a bit of dried red chilli. I didn't notice I was supposed to add stock, so dry fried the noodles at first and then added a bit of water later. Very happy with the result though!

Chicken and Kidney Beans

Now for some home cooking! Here's the red kidney beans and chicken I cooked yesterday lunchtime:

Doesn't look like much, but it tasted great, especially as I spiced it up a bit! Here's the original recipe: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chicken_with_red_kidney_97909 Though I used chicken breast and put a load of cayenne pepper in it.

Haggis Pizza at Namba Hub

Where better to start a blog on Japanese food than Haggis Pizza? I tried this at the Hub in Osaka's Namba district. The Hub is a chain of British style pubs that serve semi-authentic British dishes and offer decent beer in proper pint glasses!

This is a seasonal menu offering and cost Y550. It was pretty tasty, quite a robust flavour, and used stronger cheese than you would usually find on a Japanese pizza. I enjoyed this but it was a bit on the small side, and so I followed it with Coronation Chicken Salad, for Y600. This was again enjoyable, servicable pub food. Nicely washed down with a couple of pints of Hub Ale.