What's for tea tonight? (#8)

[sheothebudworths]

Pasta with grated carrot and courgette, olives and homemade pesto - plus a tin of mackerel for me and the boy.
Half a Lion bar and an apple for pudding.

 

[UrbaneFox]

Down to the scraps now, delivery tomorrow.

I shall have some pasta with a pouch of lemon and coconut sauce.

I'll sprinkle some sunflower or pumpkin seeds on it, for the "S factor".

 

[Aladdin]

Chicken curry and rice

 

[RubyToogood]

Baked potato. 1/2 with cheese, 1/2 with tuna mayo. Purple sprouting broccoli.

It seems wrong to be eating baked potatoes in June, but I saw them in the supermarket and thought they looked easy to prepare. The tuna was a bit of a mis judgement. I plunged the point of the tin opener into the can before realising that I didn't have a spare hand to restrain it while I opened. But managed to struggle through somehow, probably dangerously.

 

[Numbers]

Baked Chicken and veg.

 

[Elpenor]

A couple of pitta breads

 

[Espresso]

Sausage and beans. The sausages were nice herby ones from the butchers and the beans were butterbeans, dressed up with garlic, pesto, fried onions and oregano.
It was bloody lovely.

 

[Epona]

Sausage and beans. The sausages were nice herby ones from the butchers and the beans were butterbeans, dressed up with garlic, pesto, fried onions and oregano.
It was bloody lovely.

Thanks for the inspiration, I was looking earlier at a lacklustre array of items to accompany my pork loin steak for tomorrow and scratching my head, but I have a tin of butterbeans and a basil plant that isn't faring too well and I need to salvage what I can, I reckon something similar to that butterbean pesto dish is going to go perfect with my pork (or tuna steak for OH).

(EDIT: I have made the pesto now ready - as I was only making a small amount I did it the old fashioned way with mortar and pestle, long-winded but oddly satisfying - going to be doing this for breakfast since OH is on nights and I skipped tea last night).

 

[Epona]

Espresso - bloody top idea, that was delicious! Pretty much saved our (breakfast time) dinner from being boring!

I made pesto as I happened to have a lot of basil and some pine nuts that needed to be used, but a decent one from a jar would work and I'd be more likely to do that most of the time. For the bean dish I used olive oil, red onion which I caramelised slightly, garlic, chilli flakes (just enough for a bit of warmth), butter beans, a good dollop of pesto, the leftover toasted pine nuts that didn't make it into the pesto, lemon juice (half a lemon's worth) and a little more olive oil at the end after it was off the heat.

Was perfect with my pork loin steak, OH loved it with his tuna steak, will do again, and other variations on the theme

I love this thread

 

[Espresso]

Glad to have been your inspiration! That sounds lovely, Epona.

I am a big fan of beans and pulses. They're cheap and dead healthy and take whatever sort of herbs or spices you choose to chuck at them.

 

[Epona]

Glad to have been your inspiration! That sounds lovely, Epona.

I am a big fan of beans and pulses. They're cheap and dead healthy and take whatever sort of herbs or spices you choose to chuck at them.

Aye, I do like them but I get into a rut sometimes and slip into curry/bean chilli/refried beans mode. Good to be reminded of other delicious ways to use them!

 

[sheothebudworths]

Fish finger/southern quorn nugget, lettuce, avo and mayo sangers. Lemon drizzle cake for pudding.

 

[Badgers]

Left a beef and lentil chilli in the slow cooker this morning. If the flat has not burned down I shall be having that. Probably with some rice, spinach and cheese atop.

If the flat has burned down then McDonald's or a curry.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A couple of pitta breads

Toasted or raw? I like toasted pittas by themselves - wholemeal only though.

 

[Elpenor]

Toasted or raw? I like toasted pittas by themselves - wholemeal only though.

They were raw.

 

[Orang Utan]

kedgeree

 

[moose]

Hottest bloody day of the year, it feels like, and we're having roast carrots, boiled new spuds, veggie franks and c-o-t-c cos I don't have anything else in.

 

[nottsgirl]

Disappointing Tesco’s Finest pizza and sour cream and chive dip.

 

[Numbers]

Crisp muthafuckin Sangwiches.



<so excite>

 

[Numbers]

Having Pitchfork Cheddar hunks as side nibble.

 

[RubyToogood]

Posh farmers market spinach and butternut squash lasagne.

 

[Funky_monks]

To use up the broad bean glut: torn chicken and broad bean salad with garlic and parsley dressing.

 

[Aladdin]

Oh...tonight I made WAY too much couscous.
Ended up having 2 savoury versions...one with lemon and herbs and the other with walnuts and spices...curry ish.

I still had a load of couscous left so I made a sweet Moroccan couscous dish with cinnamon, sugar and almonds. Baked it in the oven and and served it with lemon cream. It was delicious!
But I never want to eat that much couscous again.

 

[kalidarkone]

Just got a very self indulgent shop delivered- it was very surprising just because I completely forgot what I ordered! I have very good taste though So a dim sum platter and salad.

 

[Maggot]

Curried carrot fritters, caponata and some pasta pesto salad.

 

[Zorra]

Got the keys to our new house today and spent the whole day cleaning so delivery pizza

 

[May Kasahara]

Just got a very self indulgent shop delivered- it was very surprising just because I completely forgot what I ordered! I have very good taste though So a dim sum platter and salad.

In a somewhat less exciting twist on this, we had spag bol that I cooked but have absolutely no recollection of making (exhaustion).

 

[kalidarkone]

In a somewhat less exciting twist on this, we had spag bol that I cooked but have absolutely no recollection of making (exhaustion).

On auto pilot......

 

[sheothebudworths]

Freezer tea for me and my girl. Vegetable fingers, potato croquettes and some tomato and cucumber. Yum yums and grapes for pudding.

 

[Aladdin]

Veggie burgers, airfried chips and some salad.