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What's for tea tonight? (#8)

I had a scratty pretend KFC at the scratty chicken shack in town.
I must say I absolutely love it.

I know I ought to hang my head in shame* in this thread of lovely teas and tasty cooking, but by jove, I do love it when I have my tea there. Two great hefty chunks of greasy chicken with weirdy bready spicy coating and cheapo chips with a tub of viscous chickeny gloopy synthetic gravy. And a can of Tango.
Classy chick. Me, not the deep fried poultry. :D

*But I won't. I have no shame.
 
I did my tomato/chilli/prawn dish with spaghetti, and it was really good, as usual, having that tomorrow as well because I make enough for 2 nights.

Sunday was a weird one for me though, I'd been wittering on about missing eating lamb to my pescetarian OH on Friday/Saturday night, and on Sunday there was some lamb rump steak in the fridge. So Sunday night I had that, (and I did some tuna steak for him, with garlic potatoes and green beans for us both). I was worried that I might have forgotten how to cook meat in the 20 years since I last did it and I know it must have cost him a fair bit more than our usual meals so I was doubly worried that I might ruin it, but it worked out great, medium rare, very tasty, very tender, could cut it with a butter knife.
 
Our lass has been mumbling about maybe making quorn chicken fajitas - she did them the other week and they were nom! Fella's never eaten them before :D

If not, then it's chips n egg! Win win really :cool:

Can you believe he's never seen The Wire either?! So we're over halfway through the first season already - he's addicted heh :D
 
Lamb chops last night were lovely. Ended up marinading them with salt, pepper, oil, mint, cumin, garlic, lemon juice and spring onion for about an hour. Under the grill for 4 minutes per side and they were as juicy as a virgins thigh. Served with roasted peppers, rice and green salad. Turkish bread to mop up the lamb juices.

Girlfriend had the afternoon off so she baked a lemon and ginger cake. We made white chocolate ganache to go on top. So yesterday was a good day :D
 
Microwave low fat lasagne - quick turnaround, only cooking for myself as Mr.QofG's will have already eaten, can't be arsed to cook anything just for me. I might add some peas or something to it.
 
Holy shitmeister MC general you know I haven't got a clue. Might go and geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet....

A FISH!

Got green beans. Got potatoes. Some kinda sauce would be the next logical step. Recommendations? :)

What about a nice Rose to go with it? Ooo I feel a bit of the old romantic smarm coming on :cool: It staarted with a fiiish
 
Yetman said:
Holy shitmeister MC general you know I haven't got a clue. Might go and geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet....

A FISH!

Got green beans. Got potatoes. Some kinda sauce would be the next logical step. Recommendations? :)

What about a nice Rose to go with it? Ooo I feel a bit of the old romantic smarm coming on :cool: It staarted with a fiiish
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You could do a parsley and dill sauce. Always goes very well with fish. Or just some flavored butter. Garlic and dill is a good one.
 
Couldn't find any capers....would the dish work as well without them? Or if I whack a bit of tartare in there is it going to mess it up? Maybe just a simple white wine and parsley sauce?

Damn! Didn't get the frickin shallots either! Can you use like, half as much onion instead of shallots?

Balls.
 
The 2nd recipe looks nice Yetman, but you can definitely use onion in place of shallot (I'm not too sure about replacing capers with tartare sauce though :hmm:)

I've got some ragu defrosting so tea will either be spag bol, pasta bake, or perhaps even lasagne if I cba
 
Yetman said:
Couldn't find any capers....would the dish work as well without them? Or if I whack a bit of tartare in there is it going to mess it up? Maybe just a simple white wine and parsley sauce?

Damn! Didn't get the frickin shallots either! Can you use like, half as much onion instead of shallots?

Balls.
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Onion will be fine. Just chop it finely. A good sauce would be a white wine reduction, parsley and a bit of butter. A splash of cream would work well too.
 
TitanSound said:
Onion will be fine. Just chop it finely. A good sauce would be a white wine reduction, parsley and a bit of butter. A splash of cream would work well too.
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Excellent, good to hear. Haven't got any cream though but as long as the onions will be ok instead of shallots then I'm happy :)
 
Got a small pay rise today, so was ready to cook something vaguely celebratory. And then I got home to a letter from the Inland Revenue wankers claiming an underpayment of x for the last year. So I'm back down to vaguely equals, even slightly less for next year. Fucking humbug humbug.

The celebratory mood has deflated, so I'm switching to a meal that I can throw together with minimal effort and attention. Keema curry with paneer and a side dish of dal of some kind I reckon
 
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