What's for tea tonight? (#8)

[Boris Sprinkler]

Brown stew chicken curry with roast sweet potatoes and rice and peas.

ETA. Not mine but the delectable kalidarkone is at the controls and I’ve got my Encona ready.

 

[kebabking]

I even did Cranachan... The dog enjoyed the Ox stomachs.

 

[Zorra]

Steak (yellow stickered so bargain), home made chips, and a gratin of all the odds and ends of veg from the freezer so broccoli, cauliflower, spinach and green beans done in a sauce using up the last of the Christmas cheese plus nutmeg and rosemary.

 

[newme]

I have days like that too, I do all the cooking - I mean it's fair enough because N works and I don't but I sometimes just feel like I'm sat at a conveyor belt of meal provision (and as much as I love cooking, that can suck all the joy out of it if you're not in the mood).
Tonight I got to a "fuck it, can't be bothered to cook for myself" point, then realised I'd already started soaking lentils so might as well just get on with it.

I mean quite a lot of days we just do our own thing, different times and that. Just seems like when it is bulk everyone is using or anything cooked fresh that night which includes that too, then its like 90% of the time me. Not working currently but this wasn't all that different when I was. We actually have things reasonably shared out between us overall just had enough of that in particular yesterday with people not using the food we have and complaining x or y isn't there when we could eat for a month in just pre cooked microwave ready meals I made.

Today was some dough L*** something I want to say? I can't remember the name of, same lidl type bag as the dumplings so I guess polish? Left defrost in some oil and they puffed up then flat fried a few each to make monster toasties, cheese, ham, chives, s+p/bit of mustard/etc for some. Think we got 8 bits out of a bag with 2 being a large one as a sandwich and it was a quid or so a pack a while back and has lasted fine.

 

[Saffy]

I've just had a bowl of porridge with Greek yoghurt and raspberry coulis.

I had a massive rose harissa chicken wrap for lunch and just not hungry enough to make dinner.

 

[mrsfran]

I've done lots of fun cooking today. Mushrooms and scrambled egg for breakfast. Then I did some batch cooking for the week's lunches - salmon, roasted broccoli, bulgar wheat with vermicelli, rusted red peppers and home-pickled cucumber. Then for dinner daughter helped me make Quorn mince and green lentil cottage pie, roast parsnips and peas.

 

[RubyToogood]

Pasta pesto with runner beans from the freezer, pesto also from the freezer. Past me is scoring quite well at the moment although there are quite a few portions of tromboncino and chick pea curry that are languishing unloved.

 

[May Kasahara]

Lemon/garlic/herb pork tenderloin, with roast potatoes, roast squash, yorkshires, gravy and steamed cabbage/carrots/sprouts. All very delicious and for once I made just the right amount as well.

 

[Numbers]

Had the last of the macaroni cheese we made with the Christmas cheese with some jerk chicken.

Although defrosted and then microwaved the macaroni was still lovely - gonna miss it.

 

[iona]

Haggis (meat and veggie ones), clapshot, pointed cabbage, Yorkshire puddings because the Dutch person here had never tried them, instant gravy because whisky sauce was too much hassle when I was running back and forth cooking in two kitchens and it'd just started pissing down. Made the clapshot with a mix of smooth mash and tiny mashed up roast potatoes this time and it worked really well. Cranachan after.

Massively overcatered because I always forget most people don't eat like I do, so there's loads of leftovers and an entire clootie dumpling that didn't even get started on.

 

[sojourner]

Mushroom and cheese frittata, couscous, salad.

Fruitcake and a decaff coffee.

 

[May Kasahara]

Chicken and ham pie for the grown ups, salmon fillets for the kids. With new potatoes and veg.

There are some sad looking bananas withering gently in the fruit and veg rack, so I might turn them into a chocolate banana cake

 

[Saffy]

Roast chicken which we were supposed to have yesterday.
Millionaires shortbread for pudding.

 

[mrsfran]

Spring vegetable orzotto tonight.

 

[BoatieBird]

Leftover roast chicken and some sort of veg - maybe broccoli, maybe shredded sprouts - in a creme fraiche and mustard sauce, served with rice.

 

[nottsgirl]

Spaghetti al limone. Not sure why but I’m all about the pasta at the moment.

 

[cesare]

Meat free pies with chips, green veg and gravy.

 

[cesare]

My speeeeeling!

 

[Epona]

Monday and Tuesday are typically N's nights off, so I had planned to do a massive Chinese fakeaway for us - however he was offered a shift tonight at short notice and we need the money.
So I might cook my chicken stir fry tonight and a load of plain rice in veg stock - enough for me to have a portion as is tonight, and the rest to put in the fridge for egg fried rice for both of us tomorrow.

 

[cesare]

"mooless moo"

 

[Epona]

"mooless moo"

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Pie, chips and gravy, get in

 

[cesare]

Pie, chips and gravy, get in

I prefer a decent jackfruit pie to a steak one!

 

[Epona]

I prefer a decent jackfruit pie to a steak one!

I mean I eat meat, but so many commercially produced steak pies seem to involve mostly gravy, then gristle, then steak in that order.
2 out of 3 of those are fine by me, but I tend to avoid steak pies unless they are served somewhere I know is really good at steak pies (or made myself).
I haven't had a Pieminster steak one tbh, but yeah I tend to go for either chicken pies or mushroom pies unless I know a steak one is going to completely knock it out of the park.

 

[cesare]

I mean I eat meat, but so many commercially produced steak pies seem to involve mostly gravy, then gristle, then steak in that order.
2 out of 3 of those are fine by me, but I tend to avoid steak pies unless they are served somewhere I know is really good at steak pies (or made myself).
I haven't had a Pieminster steak one tbh, but yeah I tend to go for either chicken pies or mushroom pies unless I know a steak one is going to completely knock it out of the park.

Yes I avoid steak pies for that reason too! I can't abide gristle, ugh ugh ugh

 

[Zorra]

Love a pie in general though!

Tonight I had toast as was home late from bastard meetings. Had left a slightly uninspired pasta bake for the kids which they were fine with but just didn't fancy it when I got back.

Fingers crossed for a better tea tomorrow.

 

[RubyToogood]

Chicken and mushroom farmers' market pie, red cabbage with juniper berries, apple crumble and custard.

 

[sojourner]

Caramelised red onion/feta/black-eyed bean crumble, skin-on mashed spuds, carrots, smidge of veggie gravy

Fruitcake and a decaff coffee.

Second half of this (because there's no fucking room left in the freezer, again ), but this time with added green beans.

 

[UrbaneFox]

It's going to be fish pie from Ocado, savoy cabbage and carrots, followed by blackberry and apple crumble, creme fraiche, and then scrabble, possible with coffee and Bendicks bittermints.

 

[shakespearegirl]

I’ve made a very spicy tomato sauce, I’ll add some sausages and MrShakes some broccoli

 

[danny la rouge]

Cauliflower cheese what has in it potatoes and butter beans and spices and is baked in the oven too.