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Entries Tagged as 'Main Course'

An Early Valentines Meal

February 7th, 2010 · No Comments

Ricotta & Parsley Ravioli with Tomato & Cream Sauce
The offer of some Valentine themed goodies from our friends at Interflora and a cooking apron from our latest chums at The Last detail, prompted us to cook up something which would make an ideal romantic dinner for two. Besides, it was the day before the day [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Starter · Vegetarian · cheese · pasta

Socca (à l’oignon et à la tomate)

February 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Recently a friend of Yumblog arrived breathless on our doorstep brandishing a bag of chickpea flour and gabbling lavish tales of a crepe-like dish prepared for her by a Frenchman with an impressive moustache. With some reluctance we let her in and once calmed with a Lager & Campari, set about making sense of her [...]

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Tags: Main Course · unusual foods

One-Pan Pasta With Garlic and Oil

February 3rd, 2010 · 4 Comments

Recently BluSky Innoventions™ the ‘Pseudo-Science, Holistic Wellness, Quantum Synergy & Bio-Weapons Division’ of Yumblog Holdings Plc was given an obscenely large EU grant to investigate whether it is necessary to cook pasta traditionally in a large volume of boiling water, or whether it could be prepared ‘risotto’ style in the merest covering of liquid. Our [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Vegetarian · pasta · unusual foods

Variation on Seupa Vapellenentse

December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Kale, Cheese & Bread Soup
For what is essentially a soggy cheese and cabbage sandwich, this is very, very tasty.

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · cheese

Carrot, Parsnip & Horseradish Gratin

December 14th, 2009 · No Comments

What better way to round off a sunday in which not only have you built the worlds most magnificent shelving ’solution’ from scratch (and wood) but also found the time to watch a (double) episode from the forth (and darkest) season of BSG than by sitting down with your (lovely) co-blogger and eating this hearty, [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Side Dish · Uncategorized · Vegetarian

Black Hallowe’en Ravioli

December 11th, 2009 · No Comments

The recent purchase of a £25 bargain pasta maker* has led to a spate of fresh pasta making here at Yumblog Towers. Whether this enthusiasm lasts or whether this gadget ends up in the back of the cupboard along with the onion goggles, Waring Professional Martini Maker, OXO Good Grips® Strawberry Huller, Cuisinart® Soup Maker, [...]

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Tags: Fish · Hallowe'en · Main Course · Seafood · Starter · pasta

Tagliatelle with Chestnuts, Sage and Crispy Parma Ham

December 8th, 2009 · No Comments

A rare meaty yumblog recipe here, although this is still a tasty dish even if the pig element is left out.

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Tags: Ham · Main Course · pasta

Cheesy Lemons with Basil Oil

December 5th, 2009 · No Comments

I found this Lemony Cheese delight in a back issue of the excellent Donna Hay magazine – the eponymous title from food editor, best-selling cookery writer, and from what I can gather, Queen of Australia.

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Tags: Baking · Main Course · Side Dish · Starter · Vegetarian · cheese · unusual foods

Review: Abel & Cole Salmon Fillets

November 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Our new chums at Abel & Cole have been sending us more delicious treats to cook, scoff and review. This week our stash included organic Scottish Salmon which if you follow that link you will find out live in remote and spacious cages off the coast of the Orkneys. It goes on to report that [...]

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Tags: Fish · Main Course · Reviews

Café Delic Tuna Salad

November 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Was it only a week ago that the yumbloggers were sitting in 35ºC of Madrid heat on the terraza outside the Café Delic eating lunch and drinking chilled glasses of refreshing Mahou Classic? (Stop it, you’re beginning to sound like a middle class wanker – Ed) Ah yes, Blogger-D had a simple roll generously filled [...]

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Tags: Eggs · Fish · Main Course · salad

Review: Abel & Cole Gorgonzola Dolce

October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

If you follow the link you’ll discover this young Gorgonzola came to us from Sardinia via Acton.
Roasted Tomato and Gorgonzola Tarts with Balsamic Vinegar Caramel

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Tags: Baking · Main Course · Reviews · Side Dish · Snack · Starter · Vegetarian · cheese

In Search of…the Perfect Pasta Sauce No 1

June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Butter & Tomato Sauce
A recent trip to the magnificent St John led to a visit to their website which in turn resulted in the purchase of a Fergus Henderson-endorsed cookbook called The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan. It’s perfect bedtime reading and has an intriguing section on simple tomato-based sauces for pasta [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Vegetarian · pasta

Stinking Bishop with Jersey Royals

June 12th, 2009 · 4 Comments

A couple of weeks ago we had a slap up anniversary feed at St John in Smithfield, and this dish was on the menu. Obviously visiting the home of ‘Nose to Tail eating’ and plumping for the vegetarian option is like… (Note to Blogger-D: Please insert apt and amusing analogy here.) (Note to Blogger-R: Can’t [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Vegetarian · cheese

Savoury Rhubarb Soup

June 8th, 2009 · No Comments

I know what you are thinking. Rhubarb soup? Savoury rhubarb soup? Never heard of that before. Sounds intriguing. Could be tasty. Could be unpleasant. Could be a toxic coupling of sour fruit and salty meaty water. Must get some rhubarb and give it a go. Well that’s what I thought anyway. Besides, the recipe was [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian · unusual foods

Baked Herbed Ricotta with Roasted Tomatoes

June 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

The plan is at some stage to make our own Ricotta from the whey left over from Yumblog Amalgamated Dairy Industries yoghurt-making enterprise. However I suspect the quantities involved will be minute and certainly a lot smaller than our massive combined appetites.

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Tags: Baking · Brunch · Eggs · Main Course · Vegetarian · cheese

Potato, Carrot & Feta Rosti with Herbed Yoghurt Sauce

June 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments

I got this recipe from an article called ‘Five ways with potatoes’ in this months OFM. Nigel Slater calls it ‘Potato pancakes with herb and youghurt sauce‘ but I changed the name as for me the feta was the main event and therefore deserved higher billing. I’m also not sure my brain can accommodate yet [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Vegetarian · cheese

Roasted Vegetable Terrine

May 28th, 2009 · No Comments

This layered jellified curiosity comes from Gregg (Beefy beefy mushrooms) Wallace’s book ‘VEG!!!‘. The exclamation marks are mine of course.

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Tags: Main Course · Side Dish · Starter

Mediterranean Vegetable Pie

May 3rd, 2009 · 6 Comments

There’s that fork again.

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Tags: Main Course · Snack · Vegetarian · cheese

Tuna & Red Pepper Empanada

May 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

I came across this recipe in last month’s Wa’ro magazine and it looked so tasty I had to give it a try. It also gave me the opportunity to photograph it alongside this stylishly knackered old fork which I bought recently in a charity shop purely for use as a prop. Everybody’s doing it – [...]

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Tags: Baking · Fish · Main Course

Linguini with Prawns and Roasted Almonds

May 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

‘I can’t be in love if it’s plastic
to live on my own just seems tragic
but we’ll raise our swords high when our day comes
you thought it was gold but it was bronze
so, get here in time when our day comes
you thought it was gold but it was bronze’
If this doesn’t make you laugh you have [...]

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Tags: Fish · Main Course · Seafood

Cod with Mixed Peas in Cider

April 9th, 2009 · No Comments

We would like to reassure readers that despite selling 20% of yumblog to Coca-Cola for a cool £30m, we are adamant that our ideals* and pseudo-eco-friendly sentiments will be in no way compromised. Yumblog will still be cynically overpriced, we will continue to put patronising and twee drivel in a ‘handwritten’ font on all our [...]

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Tags: Fish · Main Course

Halloumi Wrapped in Red Pepper

April 8th, 2009 · No Comments

In accordance with government guidelines and the criteria laid down by the Foods Standards Agency (FSA) (and because you are all, dear readers, lazy obese mollycoddled porcine cretins incapable of making a decision unless the myriad complexities of an issue are reduced to a simple 3-digit number) yumblog will in future state the calorific value [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Side Dish · Vegetarian · cheese

Linguine with Peas & Mint Pesto

April 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments

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Tags: Main Course · Vegetarian · pasta

Squid stuffed with prawns

April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

“I’m sitting at this table called love, staring down at the irony of life.
How come we’ve reached this fork in the road, and yet it cuts like a knife”*

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Tags: Fish · Main Course · Seafood

Paccheri with Anchovies, Capers, Olives (& Raisins)

March 17th, 2009 · 5 Comments

I came across this recipe in Saturday’s Telegraph magazine (not mine you understand). I was drawn to it because not only does it include a novelty pasta and three favoured salty ingredients (anchovies, olives and capers) but it also bizarrely contains a smattering of raisins. Would this be (as Gregg and John often say) one [...]

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Tags: Fish · Main Course · pasta

Linguine with Pesto and New Potatoes

March 6th, 2009 · No Comments

A double hit of carbs here – like a chip butty – only posher – innit.

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Tags: Main Course · Vegetarian

Escalopes of Salmon with Champagne & Chive Sauce

March 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments

This was something a little bit special for Valentine’s Day courtesy of Rick Stein.

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Tags: Fish · Main Course · Seafood

Lemon Dhal Soup

February 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments

It’s MasterChef final week, yeah. Such a shame that the nice Greek guy was dumped last Thursday as he was our favourite, we actively liked him. Now it’s down to the young one, the posh one and the beardy baldy cry baby one who sounds like Tony Blair. The posho is bound to win, but [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

Nut Roast

February 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Few words when paired together drain the soul of joy quite as much as the foreboding coupling of nut + roast. Obviously there’s the odious David + Cameron or the thoroughly depressing Cold + Play, but these are both far too loathsome to be mentioned in this little corner of the blogosphere. Nut Roast conjures [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Vegetarian

Onion Soup

January 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Yumblog is now being swamped with spam. So to all those spammers trying to flog us Arcoxia, Atarax, Augmentin, Buspirone, Cardizem, Celebrex and a whole alphabet of other ‘meds’ – fuck off. To the spammers who think we’re so dull-witted we’d publish their comments because they write a generic ‘I completely agree’ – fuck off. [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Rant · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

Fisherman’s Soup with Aioli Toast

January 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments

I came across this Mitch Tonks recipe on the excellent BBC ‘Get Cooking‘ website. If this dish is anything to go by, fishermen eat exceedingly well.

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Tags: Fish · Main Course · Seafood · Soup

Rosti (potato pancake)

January 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments

This recipe is for my dad who misses the rostis my mum used to make but has so far been unsuccessful in his attempts to recreate them. There are many ways to rosti a potato – purists would have you boil them first and leave to rest overnight before peeling and grating; others would urge [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Side Dish · Vegetarian

Fish Fingers

January 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

OK, so it looks as if this particular fish had its fingers variously crushed in a freak piscine industrial accident, but they are tasty nevertheless. Tastier than Cap’n Birdseye’s even.

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Tags: Fish · Main Course · Side Dish · Snack

Bass Wrapped in Lettuce

January 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Following a traditional Christmas in Suffolk (Turkey or Quorn roast with all the trimmings, a disappointing episode of Doctor Who and Israel bombing Palestine, etc) we had a second, less traditional Christmas dinner a few days later in Berlin (Some photos here). This lettuce-wrapped bass was the main attraction, served alongside an indulgent Gratin Dauphinois [...]

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Tags: Fish · Main Course · Seafood

Cheesy Baked Cod with Avocado

December 16th, 2008 · No Comments

A delicate piece of cod smothered with cream and cheddar and then baked along with avocado – now this is a retro dish the great and terrifying Fanny would be proud of.

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Tags: Fish · Main Course · Seafood · cheese

Pot-au-feu

December 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Traditionally this dish was a way of using cheaper cuts of meat and worthy root vegetables and was kept topped up and bubbling away over an open fire indefinitely. This is a gentrified version using a recipe from the archetypal gentleman himself, Gordon (Cheat ‘n’ two veg) Ramsay.

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Vegetarian

Potato and Oatmeal Soup

December 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

What could be more comforting and warming than soup? Porridge perhaps. So why not combine the two and make this silky smooth winter treat.

Remember to take a photograph before you eat all the soup

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

GREGG WALLACE!’s Pumpkin Fondue

November 2nd, 2008 · 6 Comments

It’s a Hallowe’en tradition at Yumblog Cottage to celebrate the 31st October with this pumpkin fondue devised by the mighty GREGG WALLACE! himself. I say tradition, we made it for the first time last year, however, it is so tasty I am sure we’ll tucking into it again in 2009*

Phwaaaar!

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Tags: Hallowe'en · Main Course · Vegetarian · cheese

Cicatelli with Spinach, Cream & Gorgonzola

October 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The clocks went back this weekend and suddenly it was winter. Time to lay down some much needed winter fat* to sustain us through the long chill months ahead, and what better way then eating refined carbohydrate swimming in cheese and cream.

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Tags: Main Course · Vegetarian · cheese

Sirniki (Cottage Cheese Cakes)

October 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

A Russian recipe book lurks on the shelf and is occasionally leafed through, only to be returned to its lofty post due to lack of enthusiasm for heavy egg and pastry-based repast. But then one day I happen upon these chaps and I remember super tasty chewy cheese bun/cake things eaten on the mean streets [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Russian · Starter · Vegetarian · cheese