April 2014 Food Roundup

I left it far too long to do these posts individually, so here's a summary.

31 March - 13 April 2014

Grilled swordfish with croquettes made from left-over mash. Very good, but the croquettes are a bugger to kepp in any kind of shape during cooking.
Salmon Teriyaki style. Always tricky to get a teriyaki sauce sticky enough without being too sweet.
Chicken "curry". Not really a curry but more of a oniony stew with a few spices. Quite good with the fresh coriander.
Pork cutlets and risotto with morels. Sadly not very good. Pork overcooked although tasty, crackling inedible, risotto strangely flavourless.

25 April - 27 April 2014

Rabbit in red wine and mushrooms with Pappardelle. Two rabbit legs cooked slowly with mushrooms, bacon, leeks and fennel. Tasted way better than it looks. The meat was deliciously tender and the flavour of the sauce just right.
Fish and black bread. Smoked salmon and matjes with a little horseradish. Great!
Pot roast pork with tomato and leeks and fries. Very tasty meat and sauce, but failed crackling again. My chips have not be very crispy lately but these still tasted OK.
Swordfish steaks on the teppanyaki. The only thing I had big enough to cook these huge steaks. A little overdone, to be honest. We had them with just bread and salad.

Risotto

Wednesday, 6th March 2014

Oh, look... Risotto. Mushroom this time, with one chopped slice of very spicy salami.

Char filets

Monday, 17th February 2014

I got the whole char (saibling) and tried to fillet it myself, but I really made a botch job of that. It tasted nice though, just dusted with seasoned flour and quickly fried. With risotto again.

Risotto

Thursday, 6th February 2014

Oh dear, another 6 weeks since the last post. These next few entries are going to be a bit sketchy!
For example, this risotto looks like it has bacon and fennel. That's about all I can say.

Mushroom Risotto

Thursday, 7th November 2013

Inspired by this video, I decided to make myself a little mushroom risotto. I followed Signor Contaldo's excellent recipe fairly closely, although I omitted the celery, the thyme and the flamboyant manner, because I didn't have them. Fantastic. Don't know why I don't cook risotto more often.

Fennel Risotto

Monday, 10th December 2012

Nigel Slater's Real Fast Food page 204. I make this risotto often for myself and its always a winner, although this was the first time I tried it with fresh fennel. I also added some fennel salami at the end, because I had it. I have a tendency to overdo the parmesan, but not this time. Delicious.

Salsiccia and risotto

Friday, 10th August 2012

Got these salsiccia frozen at the Kaufhof food-hall. They are OK, but I'd rather have fresh. I had no white wine, so I made the risotto with some marsala. An interesting alternative!