What's for tea tonight? (#8)

[invisibleplanet]

Satay chicken skewers with something but not sure what. Noodles? Egg fried rice? Halp!

I prefer noodles myself.

 

[foamy]

I prefer noodles myself.

Plain? With vegetables? More inspiration required!

 

[Ms T]

Dunno, I didn't know there was a difference. A quite dry one I bought in Waitrose. Is there a way to tell the difference? Dryness I would guess.

One has to be cooked - it's more like a regular sausage but a bit firmer - and the other can be sliced and eaten like salami.

 

[invisibleplanet]

Plain? With vegetables? More inspiration required!

with some veg would be nice

i dunno. maybe saute some very finely cut strips of onion, crushed garlic, grated ginger and sliced mushrooms.
cook the noodles with a selection of seasonal julienned veg (eg broccoli, carrot, beans, but obv. don't julienne mange tout if you use them).
toss the whole lot together with some soy.
or something like that

 

[Biddlybee]

I want everyone else's tea. I have cheese, sour cream and broccoli in the fridge and about 10mins to make something before going out tonight

 

[invisibleplanet]

I want everyone else's tea. I have cheese, sour cream and broccoli in the fridge and about 10mins to make something before going out tonight

Ours is made, just waiting for the young'un to roll in

 

[Biddlybee]

Ours is made, just waiting for the young'un to roll in

*cries*

 

[wtfftw]

(((biddly)))


I'm quite slow today so have made the pastry and am softening the leeks for my quiche/tart/whatever/thing but my mate is due any minute. I can't be fucked with blind baking or anything. :halfarsed:
I did buy wine though.

 

[invisibleplanet]

emergency fishfingers

*cries*

I'd send you some if I could. IP Jnr entered the building ... then promptly announced that he wants fishfingers and chips for tea and "nearly burst into tears at the bus stop because he wanted fishfingers and chips for his tea" (that's how the feeling went, apparently). I think this is partly a response to the stress of being in an apprenticeship & 'adult world' pressures at age 16. I love his honesty about how he was feeling and am glad he told me how he was feeling. We're now having fishfingers for tea in a full-on 'comfort-food-of-childhood/babying' fest. He still has to do his share of the washing up though, and he's gone shopping now for the 'ingredients', as fishfingers-&-oven-chips-as-comfort-food are not kept 'zu handen' in this house

 

[idumea]

About to embark on making sweet potato saag aloo for the first time. (For that read, sweet potatoes, cut crudely into chunks, done up with a load of spices, and then combined with the largest fucking bag of spinach in existence.) I've been looking forward to this all day.

 

[Cheesypoof]

nibbles and wine: translation, business shite that i have been eating all week

to be fair, some of the hors doevres in the Royal Exchange were good: good quality lamb kebabs, fish balls with tartare sauce (sounds disappointing but they were top draw), mini hamburgers (excellent, and definitely not the same firm that do those abyssmal fish and chips wrapped in allegedly romantic cones that i see around (they look incredible, but heartbreakingly disappointing and everyone i meet thinks so too), we also had extremely good vegetarian spring rolls with sweet chilli sauce, and mini cottage pies which were excellent (the gravy was very rich and the crust buttery potato and cheesy, even though it was in Gods pocket). So overall nice, i have come home now and wolfed down a highly embarassing, drunken 'homemade poutaine' - as i have family in Canada who are experts on this I would definitely leave it there.

 

[tufty79]

a shared feast of fishcakes, wedges, sauteed potatoes, salad, hummous, pittas, cheese, amazingnomdressing, and strawberry yoghurt, fruit and honeyed cinnamon almonds for pudding. and with my discovery of the day to wash it down - barrs shandy

 

[Ms T]

I'd send you some if I could. IP Jnr entered the building ... then promptly announced that he wants fishfingers and chips for tea and "nearly burst into tears at the bus stop because he wanted fishfingers and chips for his tea" (that's how the feeling went, apparently). I think this is partly a response to the stress of being in an apprenticeship & 'adult world' pressures at age 16. I love his honesty about how he was feeling and am glad he told me how he was feeling. We're now having fishfingers for tea in a full-on 'comfort-food-of-childhood/babying' fest. He still has to do his share of the washing up though, and he's gone shopping now for the 'ingredients', as fishfingers-&-oven-chips-as-comfort-food are not kept 'zu handen' in this house

Bless. I always have fishfingers and oven chips in the house for emergency teas.

Tonight we are having folk over for dinner, so I am making Ottolenghi's caramelised garlic tart, which will be served with little salad. Then merguez sausages with peppers, tomatoes and tsatziki and flatbread. Cheese. Then Berries Romanoff with frozen sour cream. I need to get started on the pudding soon!

 

[seeformiles]

Happy Birthday sfm, I hope you enjoy your birthday tea and get lots of lovely presents from Hungary when she gets back!

Two bottles of "Polinka" - lovely!

 

[ringo]

One has to be cooked - it's more like a regular sausage but a bit firmer - and the other can be sliced and eaten like salami.

Cheers Ms T, think I'm getting the hang of it. The dry one I put uncooked in the carbonara was a bit tough, should have cooked it. The sliced chorizo and Serrano ham I fried first before using in the macaroni cheese gave off loads of oil so I cooked it until it was almost crispy then drained it before adding to the dish.

I liked macaroni cheese with the pig in it, and Mrs R loved it. It does mask the taste of the cheese though, you could probably put the cheapest cheddar in there and not notice the difference. Will add it to the repertoire as an occasional, but I prefer a full on speciality cheese hit

 

[Johnny.L]

Being the middle of the English asparagus season, will be having that tonight. With cream, garlic parmesan and pasta. Much, much better than out of season imports.

 

[Biddlybee]

I'd send you some if I could. IP Jnr entered the building ... then promptly announced that he wants fishfingers and chips for tea and "nearly burst into tears at the bus stop because he wanted fishfingers and chips for his tea" (that's how the feeling went, apparently). I think this is partly a response to the stress of being in an apprenticeship & 'adult world' pressures at age 16. I love his honesty about how he was feeling and am glad he told me how he was feeling. We're now having fishfingers for tea in a full-on 'comfort-food-of-childhood/babying' fest. He still has to do his share of the washing up though, and he's gone shopping now for the 'ingredients', as fishfingers-&-oven-chips-as-comfort-food are not kept 'zu handen' in this house

Cheers IP and aw at IPjnr... did his comfort food help?

They boy cooked me a quick omelette before we went out

 

[BoatieBird]

Spicy beanburgers in rolls with smoked cheese slices and lettuce.

 

[Orang Utan]

roast asparagus and butter
heston bangers, mash and yorkie pudding

 

[pengaleng]

sausage an mash an broccolis

 

[Voley]

Booze. And saying 'fuck' a lot. That's what I'm having for tea tonight.

Fuck.

 

[moonsi til]

I'm making veggie spag bol asBFs son is here & it goes down well with him plus I can freeze portions for work.

 

[Badgers]

Brazas, Tulse Hill.
If I have appetite then chorizo starter with burger main.
If less hungry then just a burger.

 

[Voley]

A lamb curry of some sort. The finer details such as what sort of curry and whether or not to have chapatis have yet to be finalised. Possibly making some dahl, too.

 

[ringo]

Pork chop with garlic butter, creamed potatoes and peas. All the wine.

 

[foamy]

Salmon twists, cocktail sausages, cheese and pineapple sticks, tartiflette, smoked salmon blinis.
Black forest cup cakes, cinnamon whirls, black forest trifle and tiramisu.
Eurovision party food

 

[moonsi til]

Sounds ace Foamy... We ended up having takeaway as we were out quite late yesterday, BF and I shared a veggie pizza and BFs son had a small portion of chips (cone) and a sausage.

Today will be a veggie roast dinner with asparagus featuring for the first time this season. Spag bol will be Mondays dinner now. Pudding will be homemade choc chip muffins.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Ace, foamy!

We were away at a holiday park during the week and I was massively proud of the fact that the only thing I threw away at the end was a third of a cucumber....so I did all the breakfasts/lunches/dinners (other than one very disappointing Burger King) without any waste...EXCELLENT PLANNING! I even made chicken stock while we were there...

Anyway, back on Friday and the kids didn't go to their dad's as planned and all knackered after TOO MUCH FUN hehe, so we decided it really still counted as our holiday and got a chinese...and I ate the two left over spring rolls and the rest of the prawn crackers for last nights dinner too.

Just me tonight.....think I'm just going to have a nice easy one.....cauli cheese grill thingy, oven fries and peas.

 

[tarannau]

Harissa-spiced roast chicken and all the trimmings, plus a fair bit of roasted squash alongside the usual trimmings.

Other half not feeling so perky, so soup to follow off the bones, plus I'll put some dahl and rice on for tomorrow's lunches now that we're in the house for the whole day.

 

[foamy]

Freezer lottery: possibly chilli con carne but will inspect when it's a little more defrosted. Rice or pasta to accompany it.