What's for tea tonight? (#8)

[farmerbarleymow]

600g of fruit (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries) blended with half a pint of double cream. The fruit probably makes it healthy-ish.

 

[blairsh]

Wedding buffet

 

[sheothebudworths]

I've just made a chicken and green bean coconut curry, part cooked some paprika sweet potato wedges and some courgette and potato cakes and stuck some chicken breasts in garlic/herb/lemon/olive oil.

Will probably have the baked chicken breasts, courgette and potato cakes and broccoli today, the curry with garlic and coriander naans tomorrow and southern chicken goujons with the sweet pot wedges and either salad or peas on Monday, then on Tuesday my bezzer and her wife are very kindly taking us out for all you can eat sushi (similar to the one you posted Thimble Queen ) with some of the £500 my mum left her for being the other executor of her will.

I'm trying to get myself back in *organised mode* for the end of the summer hols, so am all covered now apart from Weds, when I will be too busy weeping about it all being over to be arsed cooking anything at all, anyway

 

[RubyToogood]

sheothebudworths courgette and potato cakes sound nice. Recipe?

 

[sheothebudworths]

They ARE nice - I make them quite a lot!

Courgette and Potato Cakes with Mint and Feta Cheese

I make them with feta when I have some but they're nice without, too. I don't use mint cos none of us are much of a fan, so I put some dried thyme in instead. I don't bother with the flour either, or the butter anymore - they're fine if you oil the baking tray and turn them carefully a couple of times.
I actually don't bother with the courgette to potato ratio anymore either I had two large courgettes and one not especially large baking potato today and it was fine.
Most important thing is just to salt the courgettes and leave them for a bit (I stick a bowl on top with a couple of tins on to aid that. don't use as much salt as the recipe suggests, don't rinse them afterwards and don't spread them out on the tea towel - just pile it all in) and then to squeeze out as much moisture as you can before you mix it in with the rest.
I quite often do it like I did today and cook them at a slightly lower temp (200 or so) without browning them too much to reheat later, too.
You can make them bigger and smaller and thinner and fatter than she says, too.
So err..point being that it's a fairly adaptable recipe!

 

[Orang Utan]

Lasagne

 

[colacubes]

Home Nando's.

 

[PursuedByBears]

Spicy courgette soup.

 

[Biddlybee]

Mushroom omelette and chips, or maybe just chips if the baby kicks off.

 

[moose]

Portobello pizza at Ply, Manchester, with truffle and garlic oil. Cocktails.

 

[Orang Utan]

Lasagne

This was far too small. I don't know how people survive on ready meals. I could have eaten four of them

 

[miss direct]

Tom Yum noodles with peas, green and red pepper.

 

[iona]

Sweet potato & spinach soup. Plate full of rocket with king prawns and cucumber. Coconut flavour yoghurt.

 

[iona]

Malaysian chicken ready meal I got coz it was reduced. Plenty of veg in the meal so I'll just do rice to go with it. Fruit yoghurt for after.

 

[Biddlybee]

Lasagne \o/ and chips salad.

 

[moose]

Indian bits and pieces at Bundobust. With beers

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Salmon pasta thing from Marks.

 

[pogo 10]

Ham tortellini with onion, garlic, mushrooms, asparagus and spinach. Tangerine for puddo.

 

[blairsh]

Takeaway pizza and hotwings.

 

[PursuedByBears]

Mushroom tagliatelle.

 

[neonwilderness]

Beer and peanut M&Ms

(I had a fairly large and late lunch)

 

[Looby]

Beef enchiladas with rice and refried beans. Much needed hangover food. [emoji4]

 

[Orang Utan]

Yellow chicken pasta

 

[iona]

Didn't have the chicken in the end. We got fairshare pastries and leftover veg curry/stew (idk wtf it is tbh) with rice from somewhere and I ate about five or six pastries :bleurgh: Rather than take responsibility for my own actions & greed I'm blaming this on the croissant thread and whoever started it

 

[Addy]

I was bored painting the fence so I whacked some meat on the BBQ and made a chocolate cake.

 

[Cheesypoof]

This was far too small. I don't know how people survive on ready meals. I could have eaten four of them

Me too. I always have to have two Birds Eye potato waffles or a waffle and beans with them.

 

[PursuedByBears]

Buddha Bowl - rice with coriander and lemon (was supposed to be lime but forgot to buy one), spinach and raw red pepper, roasted chickpeas and sriracha sauce.

Doing this again but with spinach, red cabbage and red pepper salad and tahini and maple syrup sauce.

 

[moose]

Tonight, this poncy place, to celebrate my M-I-L's 80 years of bitterness, recrimination and casual racism on this planet.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Cheese & onion sausage rolls.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Tonight, this poncy place, to celebrate my M-I-L's 80 years of bitterness, recrimination and casual racism on this planet.

Oh, FUN!

We're having the pre-planned freezer southern chicken goujons with paprika sweet potato wedges and peas but thanks to Biddlybee giving me lasagne envy for the last few days I have also just made a lentil lasagne, too.
Did a mix of puy and red lentils with a little bit of bacon - and also fried some very finely chopped mushrooms separately which I was going to do as a separate layer but decided to chuck in with the rest of the sauce so that my daughter might eat it, too

I'm cooking it now so will reheat some on Weds and put the other half in the freezer, if I can restrain myself from eating all in one go.

Took some cherry frangipane muffins out of the freezer for pudding, too.