Even if I do say so myself, I cooked another excellent dinner last night… Despite having done a huge shop a few days previous we were a little short on substantial ingredients. Looking over a few cook books Nigel Slater, once again, came up trumps…

90 minutes later I’d prepared an incredibly simple, yet very tasty dish:

Ingredients

• 3 Potatoes
• 1 Onion
• Handful of Mushrooms
• 4 rashers of streaky bacon
• 2 Garlic Cloves
• 2 tbsp Olive oil
• 50g butter
• Shed load of Thyme
• 100g Cheese (the softer the better)

First off I sliced up the potatoes and then fried the onions in a large saucepan with the butter and olive oil. I then lowered the heat as low as possible and added the potatoes, garlic, salt, pepper and thyme.

I left this to fry on a low heat for 50 minutes adding the bacon and mushrooms after 20 minutes or so. After this it was just a case of adding the cheese (in slices) and leaving this to melt over the rest of the ingredients for a further 5 minutes.

So simple, yet so good. I’ll have to remember that one for the next time Chris is up to visit, as without the bacon it makes an excellent vegetarian dish.

Talking of Chris, just looking over my previous posts I don’t think I mentioned that he was up in Madrid to stay for 4 days just after new years. I’d completely forgotten that I’d offered him accommodation until he phoned a couple of hours before arriving. Great to see him again and actually have time to chat (unfortunately its always a very different story when we go diving in Mazarron as he’s always so busy).