Lamb in Palava sauce was ok. Not brilliant, but ok. Perfectly edible, but it isn't one I'm going to add to my 'cook again soon' list.

However; I served it with couscous, which was adapted from Nigel Slater's recipe here: (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/26/nigel-slater-couscous).

1. Three-herb orange couscous salad

A bright-flavoured and singularly refreshing salad to accompany cold meats or grilled fish. Its sharp, fresh flavours are very fine with grilled mackerel.

Serves 3 as a side dish

a cup of hot vegetable stock or water
fine couscous - 80g
a large orange
coriander leaves - a large handful
parsley - a large handful
mint - a small bunch
the juice of a lemon

I replaced the lemon juice with lime juice and added chopped raisins, sultanas, spring onion and celery. That worked really well.

Tonight we are eating out. Oh, and tomorrow!

Hot dogs and corn-on-the-cob for Saturday lunch. Brilliant. Haven't figured out Saturday dinner yet. I'll have to have a root around in the freezer. Toad in the hole on Sunday. Awesome!

Tonight is lamb in Palava sauce, a recipe from BBC Books Good Food Magazine "101 One-Pot Dishes". Photo looks good. Basically lamb stew with tomatoes, spinach and egg. Recipe to follow.

CSB

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New blogger - new blog

Hello and welcome to the first post in my first blog.

I am new to blogging and if I'm honest I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with my blog, other than clog up the intertubes.

I'm really getting into my cooking so I think I'd like to use the blog to share my culinary experiences with the rest of the world, but knowing what I'm like, I may well get bored with blogging after a week and go back to being someone who cooks but doesn't blog.

That is all for now.

More soon.

CSB

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