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What's for tea tonight? (#8)

polly said:
We made your magic ice cream the other night sheothebudworths but with frozen berries instead of banana (and honey because some berries are apparently mega sour). It is amazing :thumbs: The kids looked a bit pissed off that we'd had the ability to make ice cream all this time and they'd only just learned of it.
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Proper LOL :D I always think we do kids a massive disservice when we dismiss their own *life experience* above ours.
There is literally no other age group that has the capacity to hold such great resentment at our PAST FAILURES, when *the news* is specifically beneficial to them in the future :rolleyes: :facepalm: :mad: :D

It also hadn't actually occurred to me to try it with other fruit! :oops: I have two bags of fruit in the freezer, atm :hmm:
Defo try it with just the banana, too - it's freaky how much it turns into thick, creamy, Mr Whippy style ice cream! :thumbs:


Biddlybee said:
How long will stuff be ok out of the freezer? :hmm:

I'm wondering if I can do something similar... although I've just shoved my big coolbox right to the back of the loft :facepalm:
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My mum used to wrap everything in tons of newspaper, then stick it in the coolest part of the flat and do a fast defrost by way of lots of bowls of hot water and a wooden spoon to hold the freezer door open :D
My freezer is massive in comparison - but I do the same and we've not died yet :hmm: - bung all the wrapped frozen stuff together somewhere cool, fill the freezer with bowls of hot water with the door held ajar, rather than wide open/shut, towels on the floor etc, keep the bowls of water topped up with hot, chip away any great hunks of ice so long as you're not likely to stab a hole through your fridge/freezer wall :thumbs:

I haven't actually done mine today - fuck it :D

neonwilderness said:
I'm being driven to the deep south (Bolton), so pretty much :hmm:

I might have to insist on a service station stop for a snack soon

ETA: I have some monster munch now. They only had roast beef ones though :mad:
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LUCKILY! :mad:

We had croque monsieur yesterday and my son made us lunch for my birthday today - a really, really nice mash-topped chicken and tarragon pie, with broccoli.
Coffee and walnut cake for pudding - and five tons of birthday crisps, too, all for me :thumbs:
 
sheothebudworths said:
Proper LOL :D I always think we do kids a massive disservice when we dismiss their own *life experience* above ours.
There is literally no other age group that has the capacity to hold such great resentment at our PAST FAILURES, when *the news* is specifically beneficial to them in the future :rolleyes: :facepalm: :mad: :D

It also hadn't actually occurred to me to try it with other fruit! :oops: I have two bags of fruit in the freezer, atm :hmm:
Defo try it with just the banana, too - it's freaky how much it turns into thick, creamy, Mr Whippy style ice cream! :thumbs:




My mum used to wrap everything in tons of newspaper, then stick it in the coolest part of the flat and do a fast defrost by way of lots of bowls of hot water and a wooden spoon to hold the freezer door open :D
My freezer is massive in comparison - but I do the same and we've not died yet :hmm: - bung all the wrapped frozen stuff together somewhere cool, fill the freezer with bowls of hot water with the door held ajar, rather than wide open/shut, towels on the floor etc, keep the bowls of water topped up with hot, chip away any great hunks of ice so long as you're not likely to stab a hole through your fridge/freezer wall :thumbs:

I haven't actually done mine today - fuck it :D



LUCKILY! :mad:

We had croque monsieur yesterday and my son made us lunch for my birthday today - a really, really nice mash-topped chicken and tarragon pie, with broccoli.
Coffee and walnut cake for pudding - and five tons of birthday crisps, too, all for me :thumbs:
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Might be a daft question, but does it taste like banana? :hmm: :oops:

I'm liking this defrosting idea more and more. I reckon the coldest place in my flat is the fridge though. Might work, if I stop putting stuff in the freezer :hmm:

Sounds like perfect birthday food :thumbs: :)
 
Biddlybee said:
Might be a daft question, but does it taste like banana? :hmm: :oops:

I'm liking this defrosting idea more and more. I reckon the coldest place in my flat is the fridge though. Might work, if I stop putting stuff in the freezer :hmm:

Sounds like perfect birthday food :thumbs: :)
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I'm not gonna lie, Bee, it does taste of banana :D but it has the TEXTURE of ice cream *** :eek: *** and you can add vanilla or almond extract etc so it's defo a million miles away from just eating a banana, iykwim :hmm: - you defo need a food processor though!

Coolest place would just be somewhere permanently out of direct sunlight, not the fridge - although this is probs 100% against all health and safety advice! :hmm:
 
Discovered a bit of a result last night. My GF doesn't eat many kinds of meat and although she eats chicken breast she has been complaining that she's got bored of it in things like curries. Anyway was meant to be doing a nice dish with thighs in coconut milk, but defrosted a kilo of breast instead. :facepalm:

Anyway rather then let it cook in the sauce, I wrapped it in tin foil with spice mix, cooked in the oven, then chopped and added it to my green curry shortly before serving. Loads more texture and got the thumbs up from both of us. :cool:
 
We're sharing the main and side from a finest meal deal - pesto kievs, salt and pepper chips and lots of broccoli. More cake for pudding - no strawberries because they've ALL gone mouldy :mad: :(
 
Olde el Paso chili con carne from the tin. No need to heat it even. May have it for breakfast also. I can see I am going to regret discovering this stuff. Excellent 9/10 for all round deliciousness, convenience and cheapness. Thank you Mills International of Switzerland. Not the sort of shit I had previously associated with Switzerland.
 
twentythreedom said:
I don't think I can positively identify any of that :oops: I'm sure it was amazing though :thumbs:
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It's basically "best hits of letting an ottolenghi book fall open at whatever page, and making that."

This: The new vegetarian: Sort of Waldorf | Yotam Ottolenghi
And this: Baby Spinach Salad with Dates and Almonds - The Happy Foodie

Are the two stand outs, both imo and going by feedback. Would cheerily make the pita croutons separately as fucking awesome crisps, and have done on several occasions. (Cook them in an oven at 150ish, though. -> almost no effort).
 
Blended wild garlic wild olive oil was supposed to be stored through pasta, like a kind of pesto thing. I was well up for the idea as I helped pick kilos of the stuff and wanted to see it put to use. It was... Alright.

Fortunately I was prepared for this eventuality and made a rich pasta sauce with a kilo of bacon just in case.

I'll get the hang of this healthy eating at some point.
 
Spinach and ricotta/feta filo pie, with root veg mash, green beans, and a smidge of gravy for the veg. Bottle of NZ pinot grigio :thumbs:

As for Friday's tea...
sojourner said:
Pizza. We've taken to having it every drunky Friday now cos it's guaranteed food, rather than the 'I can't be fucking arsed making anything now' thing that leads to horrendous hangovers!
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...rum happened after the wine. And we didn't eat at all. And I did convince my 49 year old self for the bajillionth time that 'I'll be fiiiine, I won't be hungover'. You TWAT :mad:
 
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