Cheese and potato pierogi And so we reached Friday night, traditional domain of a trip to the pub, chips for the child and a couple of jars of finest pilsner for her and him. That was in the olden days. Now we make our own entertainment; following a conversation on our walk to see the […]
Entries Tagged as 'cheese'
A celebration of Europe #20 – Poland
January 16th, 2021 · No Comments
Tags: cheese · EU · Main Course · pasta · Vegetarian
A celebration of Europe #19 – The Netherlands
January 15th, 2021 · No Comments
Spinaziestamppot met ei It’s Thursday night, so time to visit the fifth happiest country in the world, The Netherlands. Incidentally, as I write this the entire Dutch government has just resigned because, as their PM stated, they were not up to standard. Admittedly they had wrongly accused 20,000 families of tax fraud, but step back […]
Tags: cheese · Eggs · EU · Main Course
A celebration of Europe #16 – Lithuania
January 12th, 2021 · No Comments
Kepta duona – Fried bread with cheese To be fair this ridiculously simple starter/bar snack may not be the best showcase for Lithuanian cuisine but apparently it’s a national institution and turns out to be very tasty to boot. Lithuania is a developed country with an advanced, high-income economy, a very high Human Development Index, […]
Tags: Bread · cheese · EU · Starter · Vegetarian
A celebration of Europe #10 – France
January 7th, 2021 · No Comments
Galettes de pommes de terre (Grumbeerekiechle) au chevre chaud – Potato rosti topped with melted goat’s cheese What better way to start a new year than a visit to France, specifically the heavily German influenced region of Alsace. Colmar, Alsace, France.
Tags: cheese · EU · Main Course · Tory cunts · Vegetarian
A celebration of Europe #6 – Czech Republic
January 2nd, 2021 · No Comments
Smažený sýr The challenge Yumblog faces as a vegetarian/fish/seafood blog, is that many countries in Project EU lean towards a meat-centric and essentially pig-based diet. Added to this, fish dishes from landlocked countries invariably feature carp – a best-avoided flaccid, grainy creature which tastes of mud and has a texture not dissimilar to tripe. On […]
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A celebration of Europe #3 – Bulgaria
December 31st, 2020 · No Comments
Banitsa On the day Parliament voted through the Brexit deal with little or no scrutiny, shamefully aided by a whipped Labour Party, now is a good time to reflect that were you to have believed the spew of lies wretched up by the Leave campaign, our glorious Kingdom would now be overrun by Bulgarians, and […]
Tags: Baking · cheese · Eggs · EU · Main Course · pie/pasty · Side Dish
A celebration of Europe #1 – Austria
December 29th, 2020 · No Comments
Spätzle We thought we’d end the year and start the new with a celebration of the 28 27 members of the European Union. Each day we’ll be serving a meal from a different EU member state, striving for the authentic and traditional and avoiding the cliched – and to make it unnecessarily complicated, doing it […]
Tags: cheese · EU · Main Course · Uncategorized · Vegetarian
Cheese and Branston Pickle puffs
May 29th, 2020 · No Comments
As a rule I scroll past any sponsored content appearing in my Facebook timelime (unless of course it’s from Boots in which case I write an angry comment telling them to stop ripping off the NHS and pay their fucking taxes, or Dyson when I inform them Henrys are better, and pay their fucking taxes), […]
Tags: Baking · cheese · Pie · pie/pasty · Snack · Vegetarian
Potato, Leek and Gruyère tart
January 17th, 2018 · No Comments
As the result of a Christmas spent in France hosted by, among others, Jean-Pierre the moustachioed turophile, we had pretty much vowed to stay away from cheese for long into the new year. That was until, in an idle moment, we happened across this tempting Potato, Leek and Gruyère tart from the ever reliable and […]
Tags: cheese · Main Course · Pie · pie/pasty · Side Dish · Starter · Vegetarian
Garides saganaki (prawns with ouzo and feta)
July 2nd, 2017 · No Comments
You know humanity is truly approaching the end of days when a flier from McDonnalds drops on the doormat and not only pronounces ‘We deliver, McDelivery has arrived’, but also proudly trumpets that this essential service is bought to you by UberEATS. A partnership forged in the fat-clogged sewers of neoliberal hell. It could only […]
Tags: cheese · greek · Main Course · Seafood
Cheese fondue
January 1st, 2016 · No Comments
Traditional Cheese Fondue
Tags: cheese · Fondue · Main Course · Vegetarian(ish)
Herbalicious leek and goat’s cheese tart
October 8th, 2014 · 4 Comments
On the occasion of impending guests we thought that a butter-rich pastry was the place to start. Then we thought that filling that butter-rich pastry with cream, eggs and cheese might be the very thing. And some wine and a bit more butter. And finally, because we didn’t want our guests to think we were […]
Tags: Baking · cheese · Pie · Vegetarian(ish)
Strained yoghurt (labneh #2)
July 31st, 2013 · No Comments
Like the yoghurt, this is our second posting for Labneh and also like the yoghurt this uses a simpler Valentine Warner-inspired process. Labneh – strained yoghurt
Tags: cheese · unusual foods · Vegetarian · Yoghurt
(Chilled) courgette & pea soup with goat’s cheese toasts
July 27th, 2013 · No Comments
Sun turns to grey, grey turns to wet and wet heralds the first flood alert for, ooh days. Time to get nostalgic about those long balmy Yorkshire summer evenings sitting on the white-washed terraza under ancient gnarled trees, their branches heavy with succulent ripe Barm Cakes still warm from the day’s sun. It was on […]
Tags: cheese · Main Course · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian
Spinach, egg & parmesan pizza
April 21st, 2013 · 2 Comments
Such is the toothsomeness of this pizza, it has now become a Friday evening regular here at Yumblog Cottage – along with six hasty after-work Stellas and a punch up* with rival food bloggers in the precinct. The recipe comes from the excellent ‘Polpo – A Venetian cookbook (of Sorts)‘ by Russell Norman. If you […]
Tags: Bread · cheese · Eggs · Main Course · Pizza · Vegetarian(ish)
Cheesy sweet potato & kale brunch
April 13th, 2013 · No Comments
As the snow fell on Yumblog Cottage thoughts turned to sledging and comfort food.
Tags: Brunch · cheese · Kale · Vegetarian
Mozzarella Pizzaiola
March 19th, 2013 · 5 Comments
Sometimes I wonder why we bother. We try our best to make this blog an edifying and sophisticated experience, but a glance at our site stats shows that the top three search queries which brought you here today were ‘Soft porn’, ‘Chicken pox’ and ‘Dairylea Lunchables’. You’re a weird and mucky bunch. Incidentally, anyone browsing […]
Tags: cheese · Main Course · salad · Starter · Vegetarian
Butter bean and kale winter soup with cheese toasties
February 6th, 2013 · No Comments
My how times have changed. When we first started this blog we had to write a post longhand on a sheet of A4 and send it in a stamped-addressed envelope to our ISP. He would in turn fax a carbon copy up to internet where a conveyor belt would take it to the code processing […]
Tags: cheese · Soup · Vegetarian
Kohlrabi & potato gratin
December 22nd, 2012 · No Comments
Kohlrabo, Kohlrabmas, Kohlrabat, Kohlrabamus, Kohlrabatis, Kohlrabant. Or for those of you who were’t fortunate enough to go to Sir Joseph Williamson Mathematical Grammar School for Boys* and can’t speak Latin**, I Kohlrabi, You (singular) Kohlrabi, He, She or It Kohlrabi, We Kohlrabi, You (plural) Kohlrabi, They Kohlrabi.
Tags: Baking · cheese · Kohlrabi · Side Dish · Vegetarian
Green peppers stuffed with hake and manchego
August 20th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Pity the green pepper, no wonder it’s a little bitter, here in the UK its sole function is to ‘add a bit of colour’ to that dull and unwanted guest at every barbecue, picnic or family gathering* – the rice and sweetcorn salad. Not so in Spain where the pimiento verde is treated with the […]
Tags: cheese · Fish · Main Course · Sauce · Tapas
Cheese & potato pie
July 1st, 2012 · 2 Comments
The arrival of Granny and an aunty to celebrate Yumblog Junior’s second birthday had the added advantage of the potential for babysitting and therefore a rare evening out for the parents. Searching for tasty and cheesy ballast with which to fortify ourselves before what was inevitably going to be a multi-pint boozy night out, we […]
Tags: Baking · cheese · Main Course · Pie · pie/pasty · Vegetarian
Cheese & spinach brunch
June 4th, 2012 · 2 Comments
The original source of this recipe was the excellent ‘Abel & Cole Cookbook’ – currently given away free with a month’s trial of their veg boxes. They called it something along the lines of ‘Baked spinach with cheesy weezy wosty eggy wegs’ – a little twee and Belle and Sebastian for comfort – hence the […]
Tags: Brunch · cheese · Eggs · Vegetarian · Vegetarian(ish)
Cheesy Rolls
May 28th, 2012 · No Comments
Perhaps with the exception of the odd East End boozer and the ready availability of Waitrose, there are not many things to miss about no longer being in that there London. However, living as we do in the heartland of Greggs, we have yet to find any bakers which sell a decent loaf – some […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · cheese · Vegetarian
Dave’s Mam’s killer fishcakes (with cheese sauce)
January 24th, 2012 · 1 Comment
If any of you dodgy lot were to break into Yumblog Cottage, you would probably notice (apart from how bloody cold it is) that despite several shelf loads of cookbooks, there was virtually nothing ‘written’ by TV chefs. No matter how frantically you rummaged, you’d find no Jamie, Nigella, Gordon, Heston, Sophie, Ainsley, Gino, Levi, […]
Tags: cheese · Fish · Main Course · Sauce
Crêpe au fromage de chèvre
January 22nd, 2012 · 2 Comments
…or goat’s cheese pancakes.
Tags: cheese · Eggs · Main Course · Vegetarian(ish)
Tartiflette* with Brie
January 9th, 2012 · No Comments
Although the fridge has now all but emptied of Christmas goodies the cheese compartment is still heavy with half-eaten lumps, wheels and wedges of every variety of soft, hard, blue, holey, mature and goat. It has become clear that the occasional lunchtime snack is never going to make much headway into this cheesey surplus and […]
Tags: Baking · cheese · Side Dish · Vegetarian
Tomato, goat’s cheese and basil ‘bread’
November 6th, 2011 · 1 Comment
The inverted commas are there because this loaf contains no yeast and is actually more of a savoury cake than a bread. This has the added advantage that as well as being pleasantly toothsome, it can also manifest from a wishful inkling to an incontrovertible plateful in just under an hour and a half. That’s […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · cheese · Vegetarian(ish)
Fried polenta with mushrooms and Gorgonzola
November 5th, 2011 · No Comments
We like a bargain here at Yumblog Cottage, so when we spied the veg stall at Todmorden Market selling large boxes of portobello mushrooms for the VERY reasonable price of two quid, we couldn’t resist. They proved to be the frugal basis of three meals – this, a tasty cream of mushroom soup (recipe in […]
Tags: Brunch · cheese · Main Course · Polenta · Vegetarian(ish)
Grumbeerekiechle au Chevre Chaud…
October 14th, 2011 · No Comments
…or potato pancakes with toasted goat’s cheese. Or indeed rosti with toasted goat’s cheese. But another Alsatian dish anyway.
Tags: Brunch · cheese · Snack · Vegetarian(ish)
Grilled aubergines with olive oil, garlic, parsley and feta
July 29th, 2011 · 3 Comments
…and so to the second Simon Hopkinson dish.
Tags: cheese · Side Dish · Tapas · Vegetarian
Baked cheese cake
July 6th, 2011 · No Comments
What do you do when you’ve been engauntleted by a friend regarding the potentiality of high quality picnic foodage? Why you go to your most recent recipe font and seek out something large and sublime that will sate the masses. And it has all the food groups too, cream cheese, cream, sugar, eggs.
Tags: Baking · Cake · cheese · Dessert · Vegetarian
Farfalle with spinach, basil and ricotta
June 30th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Here’s a quick and tasty meal to enjoy as the earth’s crust inexplicably crumbles and spews forth molten drivel*.
Tags: cheese · Main Course · pasta · Starter · Vegetarian(ish)
Bermondsey Frier
June 13th, 2011 · 1 Comment
The weekend here at Yumblog Towers begins peasant-like with a simple and humble Friday evening meal of bread and cheese. Mind you, the bread is an alarmingly expensive sour dough from St John which we lightly toast and rub with garlic and the cheese is a hand-picked selection from Neal’s Yard and represents the best […]
Wilted greens and potato with cheese sauce
May 25th, 2011 · No Comments
If you fancy two of your five-a-day smothered in cheese sauce then this is the recipe for you.
Tags: cheese · Main Course · Side Dish · Vegetarian(ish)
Fusilli with 3 herb pesto
May 12th, 2011 · 3 Comments
Being a puritan and a snob, I wouldn’t normally condone any recipe for pesto which strayed away from the traditional holy trinity of basil, pine nuts and parmesan. Profane variations such as ‘Rocket and walnut’ or ‘Spinach and sun-dried tomatoes’ have a desperate and makeshift ‘Ready Steady Cook’ feel about them, which in my experience […]
Tags: cheese · Main Course · pasta · Vegetarian(ish)
Potato and Asparagus Frittata
May 11th, 2011 · 5 Comments
In an attempt to escape the hysterical media build up to ‘the wedding’, not to mention the event itself with its stupid street parties, stupid bunting, stupid flag waving and general unseemly national deference to our ‘betters’, we left the country and spent Easter in the relaxed sun-drenched (republic) of Berlin. Fortunately for us the […]
Tags: Asparagus · cheese · Eggs · Main Course · Starter · Tapas · Vegetarian(ish)
Soft cheese, puy lentil and parsley salad
April 19th, 2011 · No Comments
A few weekends back the Yumblog family boarding a cramped Virgin train and sped uncomfortably northwards to West Yorkshire in what could be referred to as Phase Two of their cunning plan for a bright and exciting new future. A few days later they returned to Yumblog Towers refreshed and excited and carrying a modest […]
Tags: cheese · Main Course · salad · Snack · Vegetarian
Baked Camembert
March 21st, 2011 · No Comments
This is less of a recipe and more of a reminder to shove a Camembert in the oven once in a while for a fast fatty indulgent treat … and do it soon before this world inexorably unravels to a lawless (and cheeseless) wasteland.
Tags: Baking · cheese · Main Course · Starter · Vegetarian(ish)
27 ways with onions …
February 1st, 2011 · No Comments
4. Potato and Onion Gratin Remarkably after only 4 (admittedly onion heavy) meals, we have reached the end of our £2 sack of onions. On this occasion they were consenting adults in a cheeky extramarital foursome with potatoes, cream and cheese – resulting in this very rich and even verier delicious gratin.
Tags: cheese · Side Dish · Vegetarian(ish)
Stilton (& Rocket) Tart
January 17th, 2011 · No Comments
Despite heroic efforts on our part, post-Christmas still found us with a substantial wedge of a 3 tonne wheel of Stilton left uneaten. This tart was one of several tasty ways we found to remedy the problem.
Tags: Baking · cheese · Eggs · Main Course · Snack · Starter · Vegetarian