What's for tea tonight? (#8)

[BoatieBird]

Salsa verde just means green sauce and is mint and parsley blended with garlic, lemon juice and olive oil. You can put capers in as well if you want.

I should have taken you word for it Ms T and not gone off to google it
It would seem that many people add anchovies to theirs, some add dried mustard powder, some add dijon mustard.
I'm going to pretend that I didn't google it and stick with the basic recipe which sounds great just as it is

 

[8115]

Stuffed green peppers and broad bean dip.

 

[Biddlybee]

What are your peppers stuffed with?

 

[foamy]

Pork loin in a spicy coconut noodle soup with broc, mange tout and baby sweetcorn.
Got two pudding pots from the tramps buffet which we can fight over layer: cherry bakewell and rhubarb and custard.

 

[geminisnake]

Steak and black pudding sausage stir fry, but I fecking forgot the mushrooms, so I quickly cooked a couple!
Foamy, is the coconut soup homemade??

 

[tufty79]

stew, dumplings and mash. time of dinner: undecided

 

[wtfftw]

Thai green curry.

 

[8115]

What are your peppers stuffed with?

Fried up courgette, carrot, onion, cabbage, red tomato chutney and a little bit of lemon and brown rice. They're in the oven now.

 

[gentlegreen]

Cauldron veggie sausages, mash, tahini, apple sauce, beer.

 

[Biddlybee]

Fried up courgette, carrot, onion, cabbage, red tomato chutney and a little bit of lemon and brown rice. They're in the oven now.

That sounds lush! Last night I had cake, tonight will be omelettes, I think

 

[Voley]

Seafood stirfrying again tonight. Mussels, prawns, all yer beansprouty peppery stuff, noodles, loads of nam pla, soy sauce, garlic, chilli etc. I love this meal. Ready in about 5 minutes.

 

[Voley]

Anyone ever tried something along these lines? Oven fried chilli chicken. I might give this a go tomorrow night.

 

[sheothebudworths]

That sounds well nice, NVP!

Braised steak au poivre for us - with homemade garlic potato wedges and broccoli. Half a cream doughnut for pudding (I did the sensible thing and ate the spare half last night ) with a couple of strawbs/blueberries stuck in them, too!

 

[sojourner]

Homemade pestoooo for us toneet, with a mixed salad from t'garden

And some sort of massive chocolate or coffee/walnut cake for afters

 

[Voley]

That sounds well nice, NVP!

It does, doesn't it? Well within the range of my cookery (ahem) 'skills', too. I wasn't at all influenced by the nice-looking cook lady in the photo, either.

 

[sojourner]

by the nice-looking cook lady in the photo, either.

who starts off her ingredients list with 'large knob'

 

[Voley]

*Obligatory joke about panhandle*

 

[ringo]

Another bout of bastard Norovirus for us this weekend - couldn't even drink me Chucklehead!

Not much food been eaten. Yesterday I finally did us a leftovers in the fridge colesalaw & salad as neither of us could leave the house to go shopping. Tea was from the chippy on the way back from Brownies.

Tonight - baked spud with more of the lovely lemon and apple coleslaw.

 

[foamy]

Tiger prawns in broth with lemongrass, chilli and pak choi.
Wood pigeon with sweet potato purée, caramelised onion and cabbage.
Passionfruit parfait with vanilla ice cream.
2 slices of chocolate (birthday) cake.
Nom!

 

[sheothebudworths]

*Obligatory joke about panhandle*

LOL!

Braised steak au poivre for us - with homemade garlic potato wedges and broccoli.

WRONG!

As I suspected, Delia's estimated cooking time of 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 hours was well out - meat was still rock hard and the kids were starving so did them some chicken nuggets to go with their wedges and broc. I had a sliced pork/mustard/mayo/cucumber roll....exactly the sme as the one I had for breakfast.

So I've stuck the steak back on this morning and we'll see where we are by lunchtime! My son's already broken up but is off round to a friends for dinner tonight so might give him a small portion of the steak for lunch, with plain old oven chips. Mind you, I've also taken out the jerk chicken I'd marinated and stuck in the freezer the other day which we were MEANT to be having tonight.
I don't know why I did that - it was like I COULD NOT DEVIATE FROM THE PLAN, despite still having the steak to eat.

Tbf, it's also cos I've been really, really looking forwards to it since SOMEONE posted a pic of their DELICIOUS looking jerk chicken on my FB wall *glares at B*

Anyway, it probably won't even defrost in time, in which case I'll cook it for a very early dinner for em tomorrow before they go off camping with their dad (where they'll no doubt be living off bread and butter and toasted marshmallows ).

 

[sheothebudworths]

^^^ So, in other words, I DON'T FUCKIN KNOW!!!

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

Haha Sheo, what a dilemma!

I'm waiting for Mr Yu to navigate his way from Shanghai airport to the central station (in rush hour ) before he phones me to tell me what time his train will get here. Once he's done that I'll phone up the Italian and ask them to make me a pizza, then I'll take the subway to go and pick it up and bring back home.

But a lazy part of me keeps thinking that pizza hut is nearer.

 

[Voley]

they go off camping with their dad

Has he even got a fucking tent organised this time?

I'm having pepper steak, spuds out the garden, broccoli, carrots and cauli. And a bottle of homebrew that I didn't know I'd got until I found it this morning. It must be at least a year old and will either be delicious or will kill me. Possibly both.

 

[Numbers]

It's a toss up between beef chilli, or burgers with broad bean salsa on ciabatta - undecided at this moment.

I rang in sick today so have just been getting stoned and am gonna get more stoned and then decide.

 

[BoatieBird]

Sweet chilli sausages and mash for me and the bloke.
Something else for the mash-hating boy. He has had a school dinner today so maybe he'll be happy with beans on toast

 

[sheothebudworths]

Has he even got a fucking tent organised this time?

You won't believe this, well actually you will, tbf ....it's a two week camp organised by parents from my daughters school...has cost me £40 all in for an adult* and two kids for two weeks (they've got various casually arranged activities too - a giant inflatable pool, kayaking on the river, a falconry display, an art/craft/*indoor* activities marquee, T-shirt printing etc etc - and it's a half hour bus journey right to the farm gate and you can come and go as you please for the duration )...and means he can take them when I'm not there, iyswim.
But so, anyway, guess whose tent and equipment it is? And guess who's packed ALL THE STUFF (including duvet/pillows/camping chair - the lot) and arranged for THE MAN WITH THE TRUCK to come and collect it all to take it up there tonight...and guess who's going up there tomorrow day time to put the tent up and set it all up?

And guess who only has to roll up tomorrow arvo with his own stuff and then get picked up by a minivan and driven all the way there?

I've told him to buy food and a gas cannister and that's it (he's not done it yet, though). I suggested baked potatoes - said they can do them in the ash at the edge of the fire and that I'd packed foil. He texted back 'Can you pack the potatoes, too'...fucking hell...

I am considering doing a list of THE RULES for my beautiful tent - fully expecting it to be trashed by the time it's my turn.


*One adult *at a time* being perfectly acceptable to their flimsy payment criteria! B-)

 

[ringo]

Blimey sheo, you should have kicked him in the bollocks halfway through that nonsense.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Hehe!


Tbf, we WERE going to put it all up together after school and then I'd come home - but that was part of his imaginary 'Yeah, we'll just take it all on the bus - it'll be fiiiiine...' scenario - and also, would've involved me getting stuck up there till much later in the day and then having to get one of the (hourly) buses back again before I was FREED for the weekend, so this seemed like the preferable option to me!
The potatoes text was taking the piss though although I'm sure he found it amusing.

 

[rorymac]

Would it be too much to ask that you pack a few sandwiches .. a flask of tea and a bottle of beer maybe, some juice for the littleuns ?

 

[sheothebudworths]

I said I had some extra carrots and tomatoes he could take from mine - and that I'd packed salt and pepper etc....'Oh! I've got carrots I can take! '


You can see why I'll be rushing back to try and cook em some fucking dinner before they go, too, eh?!