I was in the mood to make a nice dinner again. Something that I didn’t have for a very long time was in a oven grilled ham. So I bought a very nice ham (“beenham” it is called in Dutch). For all of the day the ham was resting in a marinade of olive oil, mustard, honey and a little whiskey (Not a single malt! Just a nice blended one).
I grilled the ham for 40 minutes on 200 degrees and after that an hour on 90 degrees.
To the ham I baked some chestnut mushrooms with some bacon and unions.
The potatoes were cut in pieces but with peel. They have been laying for at least 4 hours in a marinade of olive oil, rosemary and garlic (and of course some pepper and salt). They were baked shortly in rice oil on a high fire.
The salad was, I admit, ready bought, It contains garden peas, corn and paprika. Add a little mayonnaise, curry and pepper to it and it is delicious.
A nice dish of all kind olives was served to it all (for the olives a with garlic enriched olive oil was used).
On advice of Marion we had a very nice Bordeaux served with the ham.
Hmmm…. the parsley on the dish with ham is a bit overdone. Could have been a bit less 🙂
Tomorrow I plan to make dinner based on fish… 🙂
Ah, I will also be making a fish dinner tomorrow (Sunday, after having spent whole day at the stables for jumping contests of the girls).
I will pre-cook potatoes and carrots for 10 minutes. Then take aluminium foil and on there put cod, the potatoe cubes and carrot slices, some sliced parsley, spring onion rings, lemon pepper, couple of saffron threads, salt, slice of citron, small scoop of salted butter. Wrap up it as a package and put it on heated plate untill you hear it hizzle and the steam starts to get through foil. Wait another 5 minutes and…. njammmie.
Don’t burn your fingers on the silver foil when openening the package!
Goes very well with a Sauvignon blanc or Pinot Grigio.
Woot Kristin… that sounds indeed very nice. I may have to play around with the ingredients, but I should be able to do something in that direction. Let me ponder on that 🙂
I am not cooking tonight but if I was I would have:
Steamed fillets of sea bass in green jackets with leek coulis with saffron and dill.
So there!!!!
Well Paddy, you say you are not cooking tonight, which makes raise with me the question if you do any cooking at all?
😛