What's for tea tonight? (pt3)
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scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Quarrot bake.
I was going to make shepherd's pie, but discovered that Tesco's had no veggie mince (other than their own bran, which I can't eat), so got quorn chicken peces instead. Getting home, I found out that we had far fewer potatoes than I'd thought. So the shepherd's pe was looking a lot less likely.
What I did have was lots of carrots. So I browned the quorn chicken pieces in a little butter, then put them in a casserole dish with some sweetcorn. I then soaked them in some vegetable stock, and drenched them with a mixture of oil, paprika, basil, salt and balsamic vinegar. Let that sit while I slced the carrots. Layered the carrots on top of the quorn, drizzled them with lots more of the mixture, baked for 40 minutes.
Very tasty with some mash on the side.
I was going to make shepherd's pie, but discovered that Tesco's had no veggie mince (other than their own bran, which I can't eat), so got quorn chicken peces instead. Getting home, I found out that we had far fewer potatoes than I'd thought. So the shepherd's pe was looking a lot less likely.
What I did have was lots of carrots. So I browned the quorn chicken pieces in a little butter, then put them in a casserole dish with some sweetcorn. I then soaked them in some vegetable stock, and drenched them with a mixture of oil, paprika, basil, salt and balsamic vinegar. Let that sit while I slced the carrots. Layered the carrots on top of the quorn, drizzled them with lots more of the mixture, baked for 40 minutes.
Very tasty with some mash on the side.
Cloo
Banana for scale
Oh, scifi, sounds rather nice. We may have to try that.
I sometimes do a sort of bean hotpot involving marinated tofu/quorn bits, mixed beans, tomato, paprika and other herbs fried up together, then stuck in the oven with cheese on top. Good 'emergency' dinner. The original recipe I had for this had bacon in it, but I've learned that marinated pseudo-meat usually does fine as a replacement strong flavour.
I sometimes do a sort of bean hotpot involving marinated tofu/quorn bits, mixed beans, tomato, paprika and other herbs fried up together, then stuck in the oven with cheese on top. Good 'emergency' dinner. The original recipe I had for this had bacon in it, but I've learned that marinated pseudo-meat usually does fine as a replacement strong flavour.
sheothebudworths said:Made up!
Very quick to cook too....
I fried a bit of onion (do it till it's as you like it), added some garam masala and half a handful of chopped fresh skinned tomatoes and fried until the spices were cooked out, added some creamed coconut (prob a quarter of a block or so) and a little water with a bit of veg stock powder and boiled it down a bit, then added a paste mix (loads of coriander stalks/garlic/ginger/lemon juice/more onion blitzed together), some chopped chilli, a handful of chickpeas, a couple of large handfulls of spinach, another half handful of chopped tomato and the haddock which I'd cut into inch-ish cubes and then cooked it on a high temp for 4 or 5 minutes.
You'll need to add more liquid (just add it if and when you reckon it needs it iykwim...to the consistency you desire!)...and I added a bit of double cream towards the end too, just cos I had some to use up....
You might want some salt too, depending on how much stock powder you use.
Stick it on top of rice, with lots of coriander leaf over the top.
<licks lips>
That sounds bloody good.
*revises shopping list
Mogden
I like tea
Last night was the worst tea I've ever cooked 
It was proper miserable and so was I when I saw it. All my kitchen equipment speaks to me and I used my new pressure cooker for the first time last night. He is a grumpy old man and is gonna take some serious persuasion to get him to talk And the brussel sprouts are repeating on me something wicked today.
Tonight Flashy is doing curry tonight. On the plus side I did get 2 out of 3 wickedly good new shakes from the shakes I made on Saturday.
It was proper miserable and so was I when I saw it. All my kitchen equipment speaks to me and I used my new pressure cooker for the first time last night. He is a grumpy old man and is gonna take some serious persuasion to get him to talk And the brussel sprouts are repeating on me something wicked today.Tonight Flashy is doing curry tonight. On the plus side I did get 2 out of 3 wickedly good new shakes from the shakes I made on Saturday.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Tonight I'm going to a mate's for dinner and a movie so I dunno!
so I dunno!
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Me & the boy are going on a "date" at the little dim sum place in Clapham Old Town
well i ate me home made spaghetti and meatballs for two nites in a row so tonite it will be take out. 
i don't know exactly what yet....but i'll let y'all know
i don't know exactly what yet....but i'll let y'all know
crustychick
doo-woop-de-doo
finishing off the last of the stew (finally)
must learn to cook for one - or find a fella!
will need some tofu inspiration for tomorrow though. have a LOT to use up...
must learn to cook for one - or find a fella!
will need some tofu inspiration for tomorrow though. have a LOT to use up...
baldrick
hmmmmm
No idea. Need to go and do a food shop as we were lazy at the weekend
Had a mushroom, potato and spinach curry last night - the only veg we had in the house. it was horrid tasted really salty and i couldn't work out why, it's just occured to me it was probably the stock cube i put in 
i bloody hate making curry, it ALWAYS turns out wrong
Had a mushroom, potato and spinach curry last night - the only veg we had in the house. it was horrid
tasted really salty and i couldn't work out why, it's just occured to me it was probably the stock cube i put in i bloody hate making curry, it ALWAYS turns out wrong
that'll do it....those cubes are mostly saltbaldrick said:tasted really salty and i couldn't work out why, it's just occured to me it was probably the stock cube i put in
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
crustychick said:
For some reason, my cooking always seems to run to three portions
I always overcook anyway, but why three? Or is it just a cunning ruse to make sure I've got something for lunch the next day?
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
me too! there are only two of us in the house but without fail i cook for three. has confused me a lot, even when i try to cook for two i end up with a bit left over. hurrah for leftover lunchesMay Kasahara said:For some reason, my cooking always seems to run to three portions
the effort it takes to make 3 or 4 servings is not much more than for makeing 1 or 2 servings....in addition, one of the most embarassing culinary faux pas is running out of foodShiftyBagLady said:me too! there are only two of us in the house but without fail i cook for three. has confused me a lot, even when i try to cook for two i end up with a bit left over. hurrah for leftover lunches
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Princess
I always over cook, luckily alot of what I cook is able to be frozen. If it cant, we either have it for the next days lunch/tea, or my OH steals it for his lunch at work.
Tonight We will be having a beef stew, some will be frozen, and the rest will go into my OH's lunh box, as he works out in the bloomin cold, and there is nothing better in this weather than a nice stew.
Tonight We will be having a beef stew, some will be frozen, and the rest will go into my OH's lunh box, as he works out in the bloomin cold, and there is nothing better in this weather than a nice stew.
dolly's gal
killing things
sojourner said:
me too!
again!
Sweaty Betty
Hemo rising!
pork and leek sausages on a mound of colcannon with onion gravy!!!!!
cost = £2.80!!!!!!!!
cost = £2.80!!!!!!!!
dolly's gal
killing things
sojourner said:
i have to go and pick up a hoover in chigwell off freecycle
concrete proof my sex, drugs and rock and roll days are a thing of the past!
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