Cooking With Richard

(This is not actually Hatfield House, but the chapel in the west garden)

Hertfordshire open studios in and around Watford during September.

Home made pesto, made with basil and a little bit of shiso and parsley.

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Pevsner’s Hertfordshire from the famous series the Buildings of England. I’m pretty sure Maki would like this a lot.

This recipe along with 2 lbs of our own courgettes, our own basil, and our own chives, was very delicious.

On Lady E’s desk, which is now my workbench!

Frittata from Nigel Slater’s Real Fast Food book. The courgettes are from the garden.

With blackberries from the garden, oranges, greengages.

Here’s the news at Hemel Today.

This is a sort of spanish omelette. The recipe was adapted from here.

We went to the Dacorum Steam Rally again on Sunday.

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From the garden. As it turns out, courgettes are really easy to grow.

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Look! It happened to someone else as well!

I made some not very successful caramelized onions (in the orange Creuset pan).

These tasted just like the American version that I had in Boston.

The gammon recipe was one by Nigella which was pretty tasty, particularly cold the next day:

Recipe for gammon, and for swede.

Some broad beans from the garden:

Nom nom …

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This recipe for beef tacos comes from Nigel Slater’s excellent book Real Fast Food. However instead of buying the pitta breads, I made these ones from scratch. This was really delicious:

Also from Brit Spice.

The swedes in the garden have been a great success:

… but the potatoes, oh dear:

Me finishing off six kumamoto oysters from Neptune Oyster in Boston (recommended!)