stir-fried noodles with beef & sugar snap peas, and ratatouille

Not together though, that would be horrid! No, tonight we have an old Bill Granger favorite from Simply Bill, only I've gone slightly off-menu.

I tend to use ginger puree rather than batons, as it doesn't burn (or stay crispy depending on how it's feeling), I add chilli and I didn't use sherry in the sauce. The first two are my own 'inspirations', the third because I forgot to buy any.



Food of the Milos
Meanwhile over in cloud Milo land, an article in this month's Observer Food Monthly alarms us enough to decide to try and funnel more veg into him, and like all good middle-class parents we opt for ratatouille:



Now normally I despise ratatouille, but this version from Saint Hugh involving separate pans for all the ingredients whilst faffy, is blydi marvellous.

So tonight he had:
Some of last night's pie, to mixed reception. He kept eating it, then spitting it out, going 'pie' and putting more in, before spitting it out again. He also had Hugh's four-pan ratatouille which he hearted (possibly to the max). Consequently one bowl has gone into the freezer, and he's got a bigger portion for tomorrow's dinner.

As you were.