Fridge soup

I’m back! Thanks to Sarah for her guest blog. Today was a day for using up food so I made fridge soup. 1/2 a large butternut squash, peeled, large chunks roasted in rapeseed oil Two small leeks large chunks and a whole celery chopped up with leaved discarded sweated in a pan with oil from…

Sarah’s Guest blog: prawn non-noodle Udon thing

Prawn Udon Noodle thing (tonight featuring no noodles) This evening my lovely friend Sara was going to come over to help me clear out a load of old toys and crap and I had planned to cook her this to chase her cold away and to treat us to a nice noodly supper. I’d already…

Completely made up recipe: what the quark?

The title here is slightly misleading as the recipe isn’t entirely misleading. Dr Finkel fed me a few weeks ago, and her yummy meal inspired this. My fridge is starting to empty and after a disappointing jacket spud at work at lunch, I wanted something tasty. At the supermarket last week I picked up some…

Using up odds and sods

A very long day, teaching, grant writing, phd reading, student soothing and then home. Home to being very hungry and a fridge full of virtuous greens which stared back at me while I secretly wanted toast with peanut butter. I decided that having the same for tea as I’d had for breakfast was probably  a…

Sunday cooking – a one pan wonder

My weekend began with dirty food – mostly chips and onion rings – a Friday night treat with Dr Finkel and Research Dog. Saturday began with my weekend ritual – two cups of tea and two croissants with jam and butter. An impromptu shopping trip (lots of nice charity shop buys) and I came home…

End of fridge meal

As some may know a friend and I are working on a piece of research exploring the doing of gender, class and ethnicity by celebrity chefs and cooks. We are planning to undertake textual and visual analysis of cookbooks. The nasty side of this has been the need to buy lots of cookbooks – awful….