What's for tea tonight? (#8)

[Orang Utan]

Is it ok to start the cooking process in a microwave and transfer to oven?

as long as the skin is nice and wrinkled and slightly crisp

 

[idumea]

Salmon fillet roasted with a bit of pesto on top, steamed broccoli and baby sweetcorn on the side with honey and mustard dip. Postwork out food. Tastes surprisingly excellent.

 

[Greebo]

<snip>baked spuds have a luscious semi-crispy skin that microwaves can't do. what's wrong with wanting that? that's why baked potatoes go in the oven. for the skin. microwaved potatoes are an abomination in the same way a microwave 'roast' would be.

You seem to have missed the point of doing the spud in a microwave - speed. I agree that the skin is nowhere near as nice, and the flavour lacks something, but if you've only got half an hour to eat and get somewhere else it's not the worst option.

BTW sorry to hear about your ruined and late tea

 

[Orang Utan]

If I've only got half an hour then there's no time for baked potato.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Well the prawn curry was excellent and has left a lovely, comforting smell of fenugreek in the house

 

[strung out]

If I've only got half an hour then there's no time for baked potato.

i agree

 

[Greebo]

If I've only got half an hour then there's no time for baked potato.

Zapped in 4 minutes at the most. Sorry, spent several years having half an hour to change, eat and get out again. Sometimes the alternatives aren't filling enough.

 

[purenarcotic]

Beans on toast for me, the wife had tomato soup. Tonight lacked inspiration.

 

[Orang Utan]

Zapped in 4 minutes at the most. Sorry, spent several years having half an hour to change, eat and get out again. Sometimes the alternatives aren't filling enough.

pasta, stir fry, steak, even pie and mash.

 

[Greebo]

In the context of the time that zapped potatoes were a staple:
Pasta too slow by the time you allow for the time to get the water to boiling point.
Stir fry - tried doing yoga or dance classes more or less straight after eating that? Too bulky, and too much time spent chopping when you need that time to get changed.
Steak - too expensive, and again, not great if you're going to be active more or less straight after it.
Pie and mash - takes too long for the oven to come up to temperature for a pie (even if there's an onionless one on offer).

 

[Orang Utan]

i never had a microwave, so it was never an option anyway

 

[Orang Utan]

though, who actually waits for an oven to get hot? i always stuck what i was cooking straight in, unless i was baking

 

[Mrs Magpie]

i never had a microwave, so it was never an option anyway

The politics of envy?

 

[Orang Utan]

The politics of envy?

huh?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

All this "'Tis an abomination! 'tis flyin' in the face of nature! Death to the microwaved spud! Flaming torches or nothing!"

 

[Orang Utan]

i was only being dramatic for effect. it's not as if i'm going out on the street and haranguing people. i'm just having a laugh about food preferences like always. what's it to do with the politics of envy?

 

[Y_I_Otter]

Today's dinner was a massive smoked pork hock, braised in beer with collards, Jerusalem artichokes, potatoes and turnip.

Sunday's cook-off was cool. The whipper-snappers did some perfectly wonderful things with scallops and mussels, honey-garlic pig tails, rotisseried duck and spicy cornbread.

But Lafcadio Hearn's Creole gumbo from his 1885 New Orleans cookbook won the day, as God intended it.

 

[Greebo]

i never had a microwave, so it was never an option anyway

Never? Seriously? Are you sure you're not one of my (slightly luddite) inlaws?

I just have difficulty believing that considering how many people had access to a microwave from the mid 80s onwards. Even if it wasn't theirs, just one in a kitchen they could use.

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

I have my vegan friends coming for tea so I have to properly cook. Slighty nervous about what I'm making but hopefully we'll have:

Olive oil pastry Cornish pasties
Roasted potatoes with rosemary and garlic
Broccoli
Red wine gravy.

 

[Biddlybee]

But Lafcadio Hearn's Creole gumbo from his 1885 New Orleans cookbook won the day, as God intended it.

Is that what you made?

Still never had gumbo, but always think the flavours will be similar to jambalaya (which I like).

Tonight is steak with greens I thinks.

 

[moose]

Never? Seriously? Are you sure you're not one of my (slightly luddite) inlaws?

I just have difficulty believing that considering how many people had access to a microwave from the mid 80s onwards. Even if it wasn't theirs, just one in a kitchen they could use.

I had one very briefly, and didn't like the way it cooked things, so I got rid of it again. Haven't had one for more than 10 years.

 

[moose]

Anyway, tonight we're having pommes dauphinoise with a salad and green beans.

 

[foamy]

We don't have a microwave either (much to my whole families consternation) they take up too much work top space which could be occupied by other, more beautiful kitchen gadgets.

Tonight I have my mother and mother in law to feed as well as the boy so the meat free, wheat free, low effort fayre will consist of:
Baked (!) potatoes, with the choice of toppings: beans, cheese, coleslaw, tuna mayo, salad.
Mother in law is bringing pudding so it'll be something woven out of yoghurt

 

[Biddlybee]

Another one with no microwave here. I use the one at work to heat things up, but use the hob at home for that. Not sure I've ever cooked in one

 

[crustychick]

I could happily live without a microwave - don't really use the one we have in this flat much...

tonight we're having left overs of the pumpkin thai red curry with pita breads.

 

[TitanSound]

I was so shattered when I got home last night that I didn't even make it to Tesco's. Bagels and marmite it was. Tonight, sausage and mash for sure

 

[sheothebudworths]

No microwave here, either!

More prawn/veg curry and naan for me.

 

[moonsi til]

Another one with no microwave...I did have one of those convector microwave ovens but lent it to a mate with no cooker 6 years ago so I now consider it his. I only miss it when I pick up puddings that say microwave only.

Tonight I'm having Cauldron veggie sausages (x2), mash potato* and onion gravy** and veggies including broccoli

* years ago me and a friend stopped at another friends house before going to see The Orb, his mum announced that dinner was ready and it was (for the veggies) 'pizza and creamed potato'...I was all like 'wow what's this we are having' and then out came the mash!!! It was also served with salad which made me go 'wtf' too.

**first time making onion gravy & using the link ringo posted. Means I have to buy wine though.

 

[madzone]

Monkfish curry, if mr madz has remembered to get the monkfish out of the freezer

 

[madzone]

Another one with no microwave...I did have one of those convector microwave ovens but lent it to a mate with no cooker 6 years ago so I now consider it his. I only miss it when I pick up puddings that say microwave only.

Tonight I'm having Cauldron veggie sausages (x2), mash potato* and onion gravy** and veggies including broccoli

* years ago me and a friend stopped at another friends house before going to see The Orb, his mum announced that dinner was ready and it was (for the veggies) 'pizza and creamed potato'...I was all like 'wow what's this we are having' and then out came the mash!!! It was also served with salad which made me go 'wtf' too.

**first time making onion gravy & using the link ringo posted. Means I have to buy wine though.

You can buy it in a tube and just add water