Kids beach party

Ideas for a friends-with-kids beach party using a single hob camping stove.

Main

Boneless chicken thighs (slash so they cook nicely)

Confit sausages (i.e., already cooked; pan fry to warm heat them through)

Haloumi

Couscous

Olives and sun dried tomatoes

Lambs' lettuce

Dessert

Jelly worms (set jelly in drinking straws)

Lollies

Ice cream stars

Mum's Easter biscuit recipe

8 oz self raising flour

4 oz marg

4 oz sugar

1 egg

Grated lemon rind

Put Flour into bowl rub in Marg add Sugar & Lemon Rind and moiston with egg

Roll out and cut into rounds put on Tray and Bake for about 10 minutes and sprinkle with sugar

Hope they turn out OK speak to you later    Love Mum & Dad xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Lamb Bolognese with black spaghetti and parmesan crisp

Feather steak with buna-shimeji mushrooms

Boil some nice waxy potatoes and bash the 1cm thick feather steak with a mallet until half the thickness. Fry the steak one minute each side in olive oil and butter, remove from the pan and cover. Throw in the mushrooms with a chopped garlic clove and sautée for two minutes. Sprinkle with parsley to finish.

Indian grocer in Crawley

Groceries and other stuff like rakhris can be bought at Hallan Cash and Carry.

Rabbit confit

Chop up the rabbit, brown the bones with onion and thyme, cover with water and simmer for a few hours.

Warm up the stock and add a pinch of flour. (The offal made an excellent breakfast.)

Pan fry the loins with chorizo and a scoop of the fat from the top of the stock.

Brown the confit leg and serve.

Six steps to happiness

Add ingredients in the following order over the course of about five minutes:
Chorizo, garlic, chilli, pickled octopus, broad beans, lemon juice.

Cod cheek and octopus with rice

Crayfish riding a bass fillet

Crayfish consommé

Cleared by gelatine filtration.

Whelks with garlic butter

Whelks and Brighton mackerel with garlic butter.

Low-carb bangers and mash

Chop two leeks
Chop one cauliflower and steam until soft
Crush three cloves of garlic
Melt some butter in a pan, cook the garlic then add the leeks and a glug of white wine vinegar
Add one tablespoon of mustard
Simmer until very soft
Add cauliflower to the leeks
Pop it in a food processor until smooth
Add salt, white pepper, grated parmesan and one tablespoon of sour cream
Whisk until smooth

Beef shin stew

Mixed clam spaghetti

Cooked as moules mariniere but with clams. Clams from The Little Fish Market (Brighton).

Spit roast duck with mashed potato

Spit roast duck with mashed potato
Runner beans
Sautéed duck liver and heart
Duck skin bacon
Parmesan crisp
Gravy made by frying off onions, garlic and duck neck in frying pan; add a stock cube and simmer for the duration of the roasting, adding water occasionally.

Trout and orange