What's for tea tonight? (#8)

[Y_I_Otter]

Soooo glad to be back in my own kitchen after a week+ in the city eating what my hosts insisted we 'try' (mostly crap mom-and-pop Cantonese places-- one of which had cockroaches and served noodles that could have doubled as wallpaper paste).

Today we had pork tenderloin stuffed with prunes, dried apple and apricots, dauphinois spuds, maple-tinged applesauce and a huge salad with a slightly-too-thick garlic/avacado dressing. Raisin/rum pie and vanilla ice cream for afters.

The one thing I had in the city I'll definitely be trying at home was a tapas-bar thing I couldn't get enough of: pre-cooked rabbit, onions and reconstituted ancho chillies deep-fried in spring roll wrappers, and served with a sweetish, vinegary mole dipping sauce.

 

[moose]

Nigel's leek and mushroom pie

 

[Badgers]

I had half a wispa, a ginger nut, and then a small slice of bread with butter

Why?

 

[Greebo]

Dhal, with a few pinches of ham hock, the rest of the celeriac diced up into it, and whatever else can be found.

 

[ringo]

Still using up leftover chicken from the mahoosive bird we cooked on Monday, so tonight it's chicken and mushroom risotto. And wine.

Struggling a bit to know what to use leftovers for so a swift search of this thread revealed this ^, so we'll be having that from Sunday's roast chuck

 

[sheothebudworths]

TUESDAY ROAST!

Pork (with crackling, obv ), roast potatoes, yorkshires, broccoli, sprouts and gravy.

And I had some clementines to use up so I'm making a Middle Eastern orange and almond cake, to have with a bit of greek yoghurt, for pudding.

*fat day*

 

[zenie]

Why?

I was out til late!

Tonight is Scallop and Prawn paella...that I should have eaten last night

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Spicy butternut squash and coconut milk soup plus a bread roll! Comfort food

 

[BoatieBird]

Something with chilli to try to zap this cold.
Stir fry and noodles looks likely

 

[Biddlybee]

Not sure yet, I'm off my food a bit.

Tonight is Scallop and Prawn paella...that I should have eaten last night

that sounds nice

 

[dilute micro]

Just a baked sweet potato.

 

[sojourner]

Something with chilli to try to zap this cold.
Stir fry and noodles looks likely

Chicken noodle soup is brilliant when you've got this horrible cold - chockful of all the best stuff: ginger, chilli, coriander, garlic etc. Blast the little bastards!

Well, mister is out at rehearsal tonight, so he's on a freezer portion of veg soup plus doorstep bread, and we're on freezer-foraged curry delivery leftovers: chicken piri piri for moi, and a chicken balti for our lass

 

[moonsi til]

not sure maybe veggie sausages & mash & veg or if BF is absent I will have a Pizza Express 'Vitabella' (low cal but tasty) pizza.

 

[Orang Utan]

Something with chicken, mushrooms and maybe cream. And perhaps leeks.

 

[moonsi til]

^^pie?

 

[Orang Utan]

No, a casserole. Chicken pieces are no good in pies.

 

[crustychick]

surely a pie is just a casserole with pastry around it :consused:

 

[QueenOfGoths]

No, a casserole. Chicken pieces are no good in pies.

You can chop the pieces up and put them in a pie

Like in this recipe

http://www.channel4.com/4food/recipes/popular-ingredients/chicken/chicken-and-leek-pie-recipe

 

[Orang Utan]

Don't fancy a pie with skin and bones in it.

 

[Orang Utan]

surely a pie is just a casserole with pastry around it :consused:

I don't have any pastry though, nor do I want a pie. I want a nice casserole with plenty of liquid.

 

[Greebo]

I don't have any pastry though, nor do I want a pie. I want a nice casserole with plenty of liquid.

Here's hoping you have better luck with that than the shepherds pie

 

[Orang Utan]

the shepherd's pie was great!

 

[Orang Utan]

just browsing recipes for the above mentioned casserole and one recipe advises to omit the wine if you're cooking for children

 

[moonsi til]

Something with chicken, mushrooms and maybe cream. And perhaps leeks.

why didn't you you just say I'm having a casserole!!!! OU you will not be having wine in yours for this behaviour!!!

 

[Orang Utan]

Cos I wasn't sure exactly what I was doing til after I posted

 

[Orang Utan]

And I'm not having any wIne in it. That's a luxury

 

[colacubes]

So ended up being Nandos last night (sorry Badgers) as I needed spicy food. Tonight therefore will be beans and cheese on toast

 

[purenarcotic]

Creamy tomato and bacon pasta bake. Just what's needed till we have the cash to put on the gas so we can put the heating back on. Stodgy and boiling hot. Win.

 

[Y_I_Otter]

Spicy-hot leek and potato soup with the last of the slightly freezer-burned andouille sausage; broccoli/old white cheddar crepes and a bacon-y caesar salad. No dessert, except more of the lager that went with it. That made today a half-day of work and a half-day of discretionary digestion, in repose.

 

[crustychick]

tonight is tagliatelle with mushrooms, basil tofu and special red pepper pasta sauce.