What's for tea tonight? (#8)

[Yetman]

1. check the blender lid is well on, tightly screwed in

2. put a fucking teatowel over the top of it, preferably folded over a few times - jam the fucker over the top, the poury bit, the lot, and keep tight hold with hand

3. blend

I blend boiling hot stuff and this works ^

I wouldn't blend a bean soup though - you'd lose out on the lovely chunky beans in your mouth

I just blended the stock, tomatoes, garlic etc, the beans and stuff were added afterwards. Didn't really need blending imo, it just said to do that in the recipe. Which of course made it even more annoying.

Thanks for the tips though. I'll be putting some sort of anvil on top of it from now on. I hope I only have to learn this lesson once

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

I've got two really nice pieces of salmon from the fishmonger in the fridge. One for tonight and one for lunch tomorrow. Served with....broccoli.

Just solitary salmon and broccoli all alone?

 

[idumea]

Yeah, maybe with avocado. And some dressing. They're quite big fillets. I've had a stabbing headache/nausea all day so I can't stomach the thought of eating something big and complex.

 

[avu9lives]

Double fried homemade chips wiv crispy bits and a big bowl of mayo. Oh and a coupla Mcdonalds barbecue sauces ive got stashed in case i get bored of the mayo...

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Slow cooked five spiced beef with baked potatoes (they need eating up!)

Although....we could have those tomorrow so with rice!

 

[Greebo]

Venison stew

 

[sheothebudworths]

I DID IT!!!

I just did the whole pan in one go with a hand blender. A few spaltters on my apron but other than that, fine.
I am so glad I put so much cumin and garlic in it.
It's delicious!!!

HOORAY!

My daughter has her friend over so they had the usual.....*drum roll*...beans on toast! Followed by THREE puddings (cos they were all small)...half a chocolate frozen yoghurt thing, a custard cream and a ginger biscuit and then an Actimel drink.

And my son and I had (well he's out..but will have his when he's back) shredded sprouts fried in some olive oil with a bit of garlic then steamed in a little bit of chicken stock, mixed up with some broken up boiled baby potatoes, with a steamed fillet of cod on top...it was bloody delicious! And ginger biscuits and tea for pudding for me.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Venison stew

Wiv dumplin'!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I did turmeric and cumin rice, a tomato, lettuce, parsley & spring onion salad with tamarind & sesame chicken wings.

 

[Thimble Queen]

spicy veggie pasta

 

[foamy]

Sausages, roast carrots, parsnips, baby new potatoes and petit pois.
Some of my accidentally discovered "ginger brownie" for pud

 

[Orang Utan]

I don't know. I may have to have a sandwich. Fail.

 

[Espresso]

My fishmonger had skate cheeks today. Being the sort of person who is always keen to have a go with new-to-me things, I bought some. They were about as big as a walnut with its shell on.
I poached them in a bit of milk with some onion and dill. Then made a bit of a sauce with the flavoured milk.
Mr FIshmonger said there was a bit of a gristly stuff, similar to the kind of knobbly bit you get on a chicken wing. There was, but as he also said, the meat just fell off all around this bit of knobbly nonsense when I took them out of the poaching milk. I put them back in the sauce and had this fishy saucy stuff with a baked potato.
Verdict - Pretty delicate textured flesh with a lovely taste. I'll be getting them again. I see them having a great future in a fish pie, once de-knobbled.

 

[Orang Utan]

How much do they cost and how many are you supposed to eat? They sound delicious but tiny

 

[Espresso]

I dunno how many you are supposed to eat. I ate four and they were both delicious and tiny.
They were on the board at £4 a pound. I didn't buy a pound because I didn't know if I'd like them. I asked him for a few and he charged me a quid.
Happily for the purposes of these sums, it turned out there were four in the bag so they must be an ounce each.

 

[May Kasahara]

smoked mackerel and brown rice salad, with cucumber and spring onion and horseradish vinaigrette. bit sweeter than i'd like, but nice and healthy.

 

[TruXta]

Just had a surprisingly decent pizza in LAX. Pepperoni and mushrooms.

 

[TitanSound]

I made fish pie. And my girlfriend made a sponge cake with cream filling, chocolate and vanilla icing topping

 

[ringo]

Baked salt cod, green peppers and potatoes.

 

[sojourner]

Carrot and lentil soup, with added celery cos I've got loads

 

[avu9lives]

Bury Black Pudding and Piccalilli outta jar

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

Keema, brown rice and salad.

 

[8115]

Yellow beetroot and sprouting broccoli lasagne.

 

[BoatieBird]

Salmon wellington, new potatoes and veg

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Lamb and spinach curry...with a baked potato. They really do need eating up now!

 

[sheothebudworths]

Fishfingers, chips and sprouting broccoli for the kids and beans on toast with a plastic cheese slice for me (although...BEER first.... ...been an absolute FUCKER of a week at work and I have two kids round tomorrow...one of those for the night/next day, so tonight is the night!).

And I'm going to bake the oat and raisin cookies I started making last night (weighed out all the dry ingredients before I realised that I didn't have the SINGLE egg I needed )...so those, warm from the oven, for pudding (the kids'll moan about the raisins, but they can fucking like it or lump it, tbf! ).

 

[BoatieBird]

Is it 'fucker of a week' week this week sheothebudworths?
I've had a bastard of a one

It's been so bad that I've decided that salmon wellington really isn't going to cut it tonight so that idea has been scrapped in favour of ribs and chips

 

[Thimble Queen]

I have left over chilli in the freezer

 

[Yetman]

I'm thinking I might do a pulled lamb shoulder with pomegranate glaze served with tarragon meatloaf wafers, slow cooked sweet potato and artichoke mash and possibly a sherry plum jus....














AM I BOLLOCKS I'M HAVING WINE AND TOAST

 

[moose]

Beans and toast. Couldn't be arsed with anything else, and it was ace.