What's for tea tonight? (#8)

[Orang Utan]

It's cottage pie, but more urban

 

[sheothebudworths]

*stamps foot*



I'll not be asking again!!!

 

[sojourner]

I've been thinking about why I like this thread so much...there's something about it that's very soothing and domestic and homely. I remember nearly freaking out on a bus once and being sure I was going to have to get off and walk (panic) and then opening this thread as a distraction method, thinking about what I was going to cook later, and calming down. It just feels really wholesome and nice. Which is sometimes exactly what you want. Like the shipping forecast in a thread.

Also, I've only relatively recently started to cook for myself properly, so the thread is a good repository of recipes. Far better than most cook books because things written about here bear much more of a resemblance to reality. I grew up eating quite unhealthy food at odd hours (parents were both shift workers), continued eating very poorly for ages afterwards (first too much then too little) so it's also nice useful to see what normal, healthy cooking/eating patterns are like.

That's lovely

I have found it absolutely BRILLIANT for veggie recipes. I was brought up on traditional meat and two veg type meals, and had no idea at all about veggie cooking. One of the first things I did from here was Melanzane Parmiggiana, that moose put up, and I was astonished at how good it was. And cos there's tons of vegetarians on here, I slowly began to gather a lot of recipes - and now make my own up

 

[sojourner]

Pizza was shit I shoulda known better than to buy veggie pizza from a supermarket - if you're going dirty and cheap, you should go all the way and go for pepperoni (like my son's one, which was delicious).

Also should not have been watching Two Greedy Italians while eating a shit shop bought pizza

When I buy them, I jazz em up with sliced homegrown chillis, bit of onion, dabs of pesto, extra cheese, and chopped black olives

Tonight we are on CURRY - leftovers out the freezer from the last takeaway. So chicken Saffron Special for me, chicken bhuna for our lass, and veggie Balti for the fella. Gonna get some bhajis and stuff from the shops later too

 

[ringo]

Curry delivery and first booze since Sunday.

 

[kittyP]

Gonna mix some spinach and mozzarella with olive oil and black pepper, put it in fresh french stick and put it in the oven for a bit to melt the cheese.
Just hope the cheese melts before the bread gets too hard.

 

[TitanSound]

Housemates birthday. So we're having beers and chilli at the house.

 

[May Kasahara]

i would have done that, but have nothing in and was too exhausted to bother.

tonight's tea will be stress, with a side order of misery and recrimination.

 

[TitanSound]

tonight's tea will be stress, with a side order of misery and recrimination.

Booze then

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Homemade chicken jalfrezi with spiced beetroot and rice.

 

[madzone]

Fish and chips.

 

[madzone]

Homemade chicken jalfrezi with spiced beetroot and rice.

I need spiced beetroot in my life. What is it?

 

[nogojones]

Squash and cumin soup
Fried pork with a white wine, dill and leek sauce and whatever veg is knocking about the fridge

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I need spiced beetroot in my life. What is it?

Don't know! It is about to be warmed up so will report back later.

 

[Espresso]

Sausages and alphabetti spaghetti followed by cold, cold jelly and warm custard with hundreds and thousands. I am entertaining my nephew and this is what he specified for tea.
He's 42.






Nah. Not really.
He's 6.

 

[foamy]

"Lightly Dusted" Lemon Sole with potatoes and peas.

This with added sweetcorn and the potatoes take the form of wedges.
Brownies and gin for pudding

Yesterday I was home alone baking cakes so had a quick dinner of penne and green pesto. The pesto was from the coop and tasted of nothing yet was disgusting. Disappointing dinner. Boo

 

[purenarcotic]

Fishfingers, potato wedges and beans.

 

[foamy]

Oh well, daughter ended up going out all night last night so we got lashed on wine, got rude, and had a scrummy tea of roast field mushrooms (with a couple of portobellos in there cos they were going cheap) with roast onions and garlic, and I used orzo for the first time - just mixed pesto in with it and it was a lovely accompaniment to the mushrooms etc

I've got 2 lush orzo recipes... Let me see if I can find them

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I need spiced beetroot in my life. What is it?

The beetroot was okay but nothing special.It didn't add anything to the beetroot. I've come to the conclusion that I really like beetroot but simply cooked and, maybe but not necessarily, dipped in a little vinegar. Adding anything else just gets in the way of the beetrootness iyswim!

 

[moomoo]

The teen girl and youngest boy had chippy tea. I pinched some of their chips.

 

[madzone]

The beetroot was okay but nothing special.It didn't add anything to the beetroot. I've come to the conclusion that I really like beetroot but simply cooked and, maybe but not necessarily, dipped in a little vinegar. Adding anything else just gets in the way of the beetrootness iyswim!

Raw, grated beetroot, raw grated carrot, bit of orange juice, maybe a few caraway seeds. Fucking lush.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Kids are having chicken in tarragon sauce and I'm having kidney and mushroom stroganoff...rice and broccoli to go with it.

 

[Orang Utan]

Houblis

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Pizza, garlic bread, cheesy coleslaw and beer!

 

[colacubes]

Houblis

I scanned that quickly and read it as Hubris, which I thought was an odd choice for dinner

 

[foamy]

a goan monkfish curry - as i bought some monkfish from an overly keen travelling fishmonger

 

[Voley]

a goan monkfish curry - as i bought some monkfish from an overly keen travelling fishmonger

Yum. That sounds ace. I've not had a Goan curry for ages. Hmmm.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Change of plan....fuck cooking today....we're having a chinese (I'm actually going to have to transfer some money from my ISA to be able to pay for it mind )

 

[Voley]

I haven't had Chinese in ages, either.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Have BOTH!

Omg, I DREAM about stuff like that! Y'know....'one day, I'm gonna buy ALL the takeaways ' ( )