Cooking - Fat Cats Patch

2 November, 201920 January, 2020

Homemade BBQ Beans

A pan with cooked homemade baked beans part way through serving

So I had planned to do another Cooking With Monsters and make Homemade BBQ Beans over a wood fire in the dutch oven outside and get A-Bomb and the Terminator to help me. But the reliable British weather saw fit deluge the country the entire weekend and I wasn’t that motivated. So instead we have GymCee cooks beans in the warm and dry.

I did a fair bit of research online into baked and bbq beans recipes, mostly American in origin and mostly very very sweet sounding. So in the end I decided to cook as I so often do by general instinct with the idea of recipe informing my decisions.

14 August, 201914 August, 2019

Cooking WithThe Monsters – Courgette and Goats Cheese Soup

A chopping board with knives courgettes and some chopped garlic

As previously mentioned I occasionally have the bright idea to involve my darling children, A-Bomb and the Terminator, in cooking a meal. So this week I thought I’d try courgette and goat cheese soup. This recipe is from a cookbook The River Cottage Year by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. It’s a really nice cookbook, Although there are only a few I use from it. The recipes are themed on an annual cycle split by month, this recipe is from August.

4 August, 20194 August, 2019

Summer Daze – BBQ cooking al fresco

Gorgeous looking leg of lamb with a wonderful crisp crust

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1 March, 20191 March, 2019

Cooking with the Monsters: Lasagne

So occasionally I feel sufficiently foolhardy that I think cooking with my children is a good idea and this weekend was one of those occasions.

Over the years EmmCee and I have tried lots of different forms of cooking but it’s been a few years since we last made fresh pasta so we thought that might be a fun activity with A-Bomb and the Terminator. So this weekend we decided to include the kids in making lasagne from scratch.

Now given that I wanted this to take less than 12 hours I decided to make the ragu and bechamel sauces myself and only include the kids in the pasta making and assembly.