What's for tea tonight? (#8)

[gentlegreen]

Trying to wean myself off dessert, but I found a sealed bag of bulgar BBF 2019 - but no visible insects.
No soy milk but unfortunately I have sugar

EDIT :- it tasted funny so I've resorted to peanut butter on toast ..

 

[surreybrowncap]

Cottage pie and lots of broccoli I need to use up
Red wine
Apple pie with hazelnut & chocolate ice cream

 

[Aladdin]

Cottage pie and lots of broccoli I need to use up
Red wine
Apple pie with hazelnut & chocolate ice cream

Sounds great

 

[surreybrowncap]

Sounds great

Keep it to yourself but the ice cream comes from a Co Op Good As Gold ice cream type lolly

 

[Epona]

I think quite a lot of us here are fans of cottage pie (and all its related variants!)

No cottage pie for me tonight though, I bought some chicken thighs earlier and some yellow stickered new potatoes and I am a bit short of time and have to be up in the morning (environmental shift on Tuesday this week what with Friday being a public holiday) so that sounds like a traybake to me. I have some mushrooms that need using but they aren't going to withstand being in the oven for as long as the chicken so I'll probably just fry them in some butter and pop them on top of the rest of it when I am serving up.

Chocolate for afters.

 

[Aladdin]

Keep it to yourself but the ice cream comes from a Co Op Good As Gold ice cream type lolly

Ah
..and there was me thinking you made it from scratch

 

[surreybrowncap]

Ah
..and there was me thinking you made it from scratch

I did make my own cottage pie though...

 

[surreybrowncap]

I think quite a lot of us here are fans of cottage pie (and all its related variants!)

No cottage pie for me tonight though, I bought some chicken thighs earlier and some yellow stickered new potatoes and I am a bit short of time and have to be up in the morning (environmental shift on Tuesday this week what with Friday being a public holiday) so that sounds like a traybake to me. I have some mushrooms that need using but they aren't going to withstand being in the oven for as long as the chicken so I'll probably just fry them in some butter and pop them on top of the rest of it when I am serving up.

Chocolate for afters.

I love chicken - probably my favourite meat.
I just don't like thighs (poultry ones) too boney (obvs)
Traybakes look interesting and will look further into them...

 

[Epona]

I love chicken - probably my favourite meat.
I just don't like thighs (poultry ones) too boney (obvs)
Traybakes look interesting and will look further into them...

The traybake thing has been a bit of a recent revelation for me, but it's made it considerably easier to get some healthy food into my OH while he is on nights as I can just leave a roasting dish full of stuff for him to put in the oven when he gets in, he doesn't have time or energy for anything more onerous and I often lack the desire to cook (or indeed eat) a meal for both of us to enjoy together at that time in the morning. I mean I do sometimes fancy it, and sometimes I'll make a big pot of dal or veggie chilli for him to heat up for a couple of meals, but traybakes are great for other times, or for when I lack energy myself.

 

[surreybrowncap]

The traybake thing has been a bit of a recent revelation for me, but it's made it considerably easier to get some healthy food into my OH while he is on nights as I can just leave a roasting dish full of stuff for him to put in the oven when he gets in, he doesn't have time or energy for anything more onerous and I often lack the desire to cook (or indeed eat) a meal for both of us to enjoy together at that time in the morning. I mean I do sometimes fancy it, but traybakes are great for other times.

Yeah - you're right.
I've probably been making a variation of these for several years without putting a name to them!!

 

[mrsfran]

I love chicken - probably my favourite meat.
I just don't like thighs (poultry ones) too boney (obvs)
Traybakes look interesting and will look further into them...

I use boneless chicken thighs a lot. They're great for curries (and tray bakes), and a lot cheaper than breast.

 

[Epona]

I use boneless chicken thighs a lot. They're great for curries (and tray bakes), and a lot cheaper than breast.

I get the bone-in skin-on ones regularly, I bake them and get lovely crispy skin (which I love!) and the flesh stays moist. Great for a mini-roast for one.

£2.20 for a kg (usually 6 thighs, which with plenty of veg is a decent 3 meals) in Morrison's, so a good choice for a tight budget.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Vegetable pad thai

 

[surreybrowncap]

Vegetable pad thai

Sounds good - but that bottom of yours is always going to dissuade me.....

 

[seeformiles]

Had a load of chicken stock so added all the bits of veg in the fridge (spring onions, broccoli) ginger, garlic slivers, fish sauce, lime juice, soy, chilli, leftover chicken and whatnot. A sort of vague Tom Yum soup in the end - v. tasty esp. the broccoli

 

[ringo]

Chicken pie, roast potatoes, swede, garlic, maple syrup carrots and steamed cabbage with butter.

 

[BoatieBird]

Sausage traybake with new potatoes, red onion and red pepper

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Veggie pizza.

 

[sojourner]

Freezer-foraged 3 bean chilli, with brown rice, sour cream, and a slathering of grated mature cheddar.

Second half of a yummy Hotel Chocolate extra-thick easter egg with truffles in it, that the fella got given by a client

 

[Epona]

Freezer-foraged 3 bean chilli, with brown rice, sour cream, and a slathering of grated mature cheddar.

Second half of a yummy Hotel Chocolate extra-thick easter egg with truffles in it, that the fella got given by a client

OMG that sounds amazing, I love Hotel Chocolat stuff and sometimes pick up reduced price stuff - this is a good reminder to go and have a look right after easter

EDIT: Should not have looked at their website, seriously salivating now!

 

[Epona]

Fuck me, look at this bad boy. That would be my easter sorted if I won the lottery or something

Dark Chocolate Ostrich Egg | Giant Easter Egg | Hotel Chocolat

Half 70% with almonds, half 70% with hazelnuts extra-large Easter egg, plus dark pralines, truffles and caramels. Over a kilo of chocolate!

www.hotelchocolat.com

 

[mrsfran]

We went out for lunch at Brasserie Zedel. ( Brasserie Zédel | Restaurant - Bar - Cabaret - Café ) where I had celeriac remoulade followed by choucroute Alsacienne, which had all the porks.

So for dinner it's very simple mushrooms and broccoli pan fried in a bit of butter.

 

[Aladdin]

Home made giant beef meatballs fried and then baked in the oven in onion gravy.
Mashed carrots, parsnips & turnips.
Brussels sprouts boiled an then pan fried in a drizzle of honey with walnuts. The walnuts got lovely and caramelised.
Potato croquettes.

Stuffed now I am

 

[dessiato]

I made Asturian bean stew for the first time. It's bloody good.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Home made giant beef meatballs fried and then baked in the oven in onion gravy.
Mashed carrots, parsnips & turnips.
Brussels sprouts boiled an then pan fried in a drizzle of honey with walnuts. The walnuts got lovely and caramelised.
Potato croquettes.

Stuffed now I am

Wow - that sounds great.
Interesting combination.

 

[Epona]

Home made giant beef meatballs fried and then baked in the oven in onion gravy.
Mashed carrots, parsnips & turnips.
Brussels sprouts boiled an then pan fried in a drizzle of honey with walnuts. The walnuts got lovely and caramelised.
Potato croquettes.

Stuffed now I am

That sounds absolutely fantastic

 

[surreybrowncap]

I made Asturian bean stew for the first time. It's bloody good.

I read that as Arthurian

 

[Aladdin]

Wow - that sounds great.
Interesting combination.

That sounds absolutely fantastic

It was absolutely scrumptious.
I always fry off brussels sprouts in a drizzle of honey...sometimes in cider too but I didmt have any....and walnuts are delicious with them.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Ok folks - pretty boring..
Roast chicken breast
Baby potatoes, carrot, swede, leek and red onions
Red wine
Might round it off with some chocolate chip Madeleines from Lidls - 16 in a pack !!!!!!!
Bonne Mamans's only have 7 in a pack
Pepys - you should be living in such times!!
Whatever you are having people - enjoy

 

[May Kasahara]

Pasta tonight, with: spinach/tomato/chilli sauce for me; prawns and cucumber for the boy; horrible jarred sauce that she loves for the girl.