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What's for tea tonight? (#8)

Mrs R requested an ocean pie. I've never made or eaten one, but Ottelenghi had a posh one in the Gruiniad. I don't have all his posh fish and smoked oysters, so I've followed the recipe but used king prawns and pollock. Not sure what Mrs R will make of a layer of boiled eggs betwixt filling and mash, but that's what she's got. Looks lovely. Having roast asparagus of uncertain origin with it. And all the beer and wine.
 
We've been cleaning all afternoon so just plonked a pizza in the oven. Margarita stuffed crust but I think I heard mr s add some mushrooms.

I will smother it in Parmesan and chilli oil.
 
Chicken Burritos, using some (homemade) chipotle en adobo. Not quite home smoked jalapenos, but some very nice mecos blended up in sauce - hot, smoky, sweet and a little sour.​
 
He used this recipe here and it was absolutely superb although he added 3 chopped green chillies to the marinade along with the other ingredients and it nearly took the top of my head off, and the green seasoning was from a jar that we bought in a local shop and it was fine using that but there's also a recipe on the same site for how to make your own if you prefer to do everything yourself from scratch. We used tilapia but any firm fleshed fish will do.

We ate all the fish but have loads of the sauce left over so I'm heating it up tonight and adding some more fish and some prawns so that's tonight's tea sorted too :)

Been experimenting with Caribbean cooking recently and just tired this out. Yum. Added some dumplings too which was good. I made it quite mild (de-seeded the chilli) and think it could have done with more of a kick, but yummy anyway. I don't know how you could have been left with any sauce - we slurped all of ours down and mopped at it savagely with bread.
 
Chicken curry

6 chicken breast
4 Large onions
4 tins of value plum toms
about 12 finger chilli
Clove of garlic
half of a savoy cabbage in slices
5 value vegetable stock cubes
About 4 Tablespoons of value cutty powder.

Again with tiny herby roasts.

I used loads of onion and cooked it down to get that lumpy sauce. Unfortunatley the meats meat suffered but I needed it for the sauce, I reckon that i would, idealy, get a whole chicken, portion it and used the boned parts for the reducing stage, remove them and all traces of bone, then brown and add the chicken breast shortly before serving. I need to bacially make a shitload of curry stock and freeze i guess, might be a good idea.
 
Been experimenting with Caribbean cooking recently and just tired this out. Yum. Added some dumplings too which was good. I made it quite mild (de-seeded the chilli) and think it could have done with more of a kick, but yummy anyway. I don't know how you could have been left with any sauce - we slurped all of ours down and mopped at it savagely with bread.

Ah it's a fantastic recipe isn't it? It does need the chilli though, the chillies I get are variable in terms of heat (meaning when we have a new batch of chillies the first meal can be a bit hit and miss if I don't know how hot they're going to be!) and it's better with the hotter ones.

Most of the time when I cook I do 4 portions (although I'm only cooking for 2), the intention being to have half left over for the next day. The first time we did it though the fish all got eaten, but we intentionally left some of the sauce for the next day - even though we could have eaten it all there and then. The recipe is also really good with squid instead of fish.
 
Ah it's a fantastic recipe isn't it? It does need the chilli though, the chillies I get are variable in terms of heat (meaning when we have a new batch of chillies the first meal can be a bit hit and miss if I don't know how hot they're going to be!) and it's better with the hotter ones.

Most of the time when I cook I do 4 portions (although I'm only cooking for 2), the intention being to have half left over for the next day. The first time we did it though the fish all got eaten, but we intentionally left some of the sauce for the next day - even though we could have eaten it all there and then. The recipe is also really good with squid instead of fish.

Mmmm squid. I made some amazing Jerk Chicken, rice and peas a few weeks ago, best taste EVER. I didn't realise thyme was one of the secret integral ingredients to Caribbean cooking - I never normally use it.
 
mr madz wants monkfish curry.

Have you seen the price of monkfish?? :eek:

Am I the only person who doesn't see the point of fish curries? I just find the flavours get really lost in them. Maybe I've just never had a decent one :confused:

Anyway, roast lamb and something or other. Probably roast veg but no tatties as I'm trying to avoid carbs at the moment. This plan entirely depends on whether the lamb defrosts in time.
 
I think my fish curry is probably a bit shit but it's quick and healthy so we have it now and then. However, my mate (from Kerala) makes a sublime fish curry. And I don't even like fish :D
 
Roast #2 - Duck (which I'll prob just reheat gently in the gravy), roast potatoes, cauli cheese, green beans and stuffing :cool: (if there's any left - I had three servings yesterday and I'm just about to have my second so far today). A garden pear for pudding. :cool:
 
I bought this prawn dim sim thing that was reduced in Waitrose. It looks incredibely delicate. Hope it's nice. Any idea what i should eat it with :confused:
 
Fucking hell, I've just finished the WHOLE dish of stuffing (a 7" x 10" dish, gone in 24 hours :D ) so no roast for me today :D will just have some pitta and hummus or toast with lemon curd. :cool:
 
I had a thing that I have never had before.

Right, you mix up a tin of tuna and a tin of beans with loads of black pepper, then put it in a baking dish mixed up with two handfulls of dry pasta and half a cup of boiling water. Then you totally cover it in grated cheese and stick it in a hot oven at 180 for 25-30 mins.

The cheese forms a seal and the pasta cooks in the fluids- hey presto! a well easy, cheap arsed meal that takes less than 10 to prepare and less than half hour to actually cook.

Why was I not informed of this before?
 
Burgers (we have no other appropriate meat in), lots of roast potatoes, roasted carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, peas, yorkshire puddings, massess of gravy. Oh yes.
 
a peanut and panir thing with loads of chili
an attempt to recreate those lamb chops wot you get in curry houses like mirch, khan's and tayyabs.
tomato and potato curry
rice
 
Going to attempt a roast tonight (pork) obv I won't eat the meat but there'll be lots of veggies and maybe cauli cheese, if I can be arsed.
 
I'm sad to say it's going to be pizza. they had those pizza express things in waitrose for 75p each. I'll add some extra veg or something.
Lunch tomorrow will have to be sarnies.
 
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