Causa is cold mashed potato. Mmm… appealing! That must be why there are hardly any recipes on the internet for causa. Well, I’m here to add to that paltry tally. The whole point about causa, and why I like it, is that it should be cold mashed potato with stuff. In this case I happen …
Category: Lunch or supper
Smaller or more simple than dinner
Pan-fried coley with egg mayo
[singlepic id=516 w=240 h=180 float=right]It’s easy to drift away from fresh fish as a supper item if you’re feeling a bit budget-constrained. You can get an awful lot of bacon for the price of a sea bass fillet! But if you poke around your fishmonger’s counter a bit (not literally, your fishmonger will become grumpy …
Speedy Ceviche
[singlepic id=455 w=240 h=180 float=right]There was an obscure kid’s cartoon on Saturday mornings while I was at University. It was called Samurai Pizza Cats, it was a parody of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (bwa?), and the main character’s name was Speedy Ceviche. At the time I had no idea what “ceviche” was, except that …
Steak tartare
[singlepic id=441 w=280 h=210 float=right]Whenever I visit France I throw myself at the steak tartare like a love-struck fool. Because absence makes the heart grow fonder and this simple dish is harder to find on UK menus than beetroot macarons. Not impossible, I grant. But don’t bother telling me about the one posh brasserie in …
Beef stroganoff
[singlepic id=392 w=300 h=225 float=right]Thumbing through a few recipes on-line to see how other people tackle Stroganoff, I quickly discovered that it’s one of those dishes. The ones where even the “taught to me by a chef at the Kremlin so it must be authentic” recipes contradict each other at every turn. Apparently it should …