So this week in the kitchen. We bought fish off the boat at the market on Sunday (more about this later) so we had pan fried warehou on Monday with Anastasia potatoes and beans. Phoebe cooked on Tuesday & Wednesday because it is school holidays. Thursday we had a pumpkin & chicken pilau. Making the most of the new season's pumpkins. Friday we made hamburgers (what we call "home made hamburgers" to distinguish from Wisconsin). Saturday we had roast chicken because we needed to replenish our chicken stock stocks. And of course we had roast pumpkin as well as potatoes, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, & carrots from the garden.This morning up at sparrowhop (well there were sparrows hopping in our garden) and to the market. Bought some beautiful butterfish from the boat on Chaffers Wharf. Had intended to plant the bulbs (and Phoebe is very keen to get the bulbs out of the fridge) but weather prevailed so spent a fruitful afternoon in the kitchen.
For lunch made Digby's old faithful Kumara & Celery Soup (Digby Law A Soup Cookbook) in order to use some of the celery not used in the stock. Not really a fan of celery but love the soup.
Peter stewed some delectably pink rhubarb for his breakfasts & Phoebe baked Nigella's Totally Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies while I made the bread. Had been meaning to try a beetroot pesto for ages so did that while Peter pickled the pickling onions we'd bought at the market.
Phoebe was out at a party. We started with the pesto spread on minitoasts followed by more pesto on the butterfish, resting on a bed of courgette on a red capsicum sauce -a variation on Annabel Langbein's Flash Roasted Fish from the Best of Annabel Langbein.
