What's for tea tonight? (pt7)

[Badgers]

Last night we had put aside a whopping TEN ENGLISH POUNDS to treat ourselves to a takeaway/delivery meal. After a little while of consideration we had pretty much ruled out everything except pizza and that was not really exciting us. On the way home we stopped off at the Co-operative food store and suddenly the burgers caught our eyes....

So we had Aberdeen Angus Burgers topped with Danish blue cheese, tomato relish, wholegrain mustard mayo, lettuce and coleslaw.

YUM!!!

We even had enough spare cash to get two packs of butter, honey roasted ham, loaf of bread and have leftovers from last night. I am not saying that takeaway/delivery food is off limits at the moment but with money tight I think a lot more cooking will be done for a while....

 

[sojourner]

More delicious Boston Baked Beans

They turned out nice again, then?


I'm having something with chicken breast...just not sure what yet

 

[sheothebudworths]

@ Badgers - Takeaways are so often a disappointment anyway, that it's really ace when you have half decided to get one, but then make something really nice yourself instead for a fraction of the cost, eh?


My lamb shoulder was so huge (I ordered the smallest sized one in my Tesco delivery...like £3 worth...and got an enormous £7 one, so they refunded the difference ), that I hacked away at one end of it and have marinated some cubes in lemon, garlic, black pepper, rosemary and olive oil.
Think I'll casserole them with some tomatoes and olives (and onions and more garlic obviously )...and maybe some haricot beans...and have that with rice and some griddled courgettes.

The other possibility is kebabs with lettuce in pitta and a greek salad on the side, but - although that'll be quick to do - I'm leaning towards the casserole cos I can get it in the oven really early and forget about it then.

 

[Voley]

Courgettes, eh? What size?

 

[Orang Utan]

They turned out nice again, then?

Ooh yes, I thought the recipe was bonkers with all that treacle, sugar and fat, but they're spot on. Nice big lumps of melty salt pork, silky onions and farty beans. I used cannellini instead of haricot but they're just as nice.

 

[sojourner]

sounds lush!!

 

[sheothebudworths]

Courgettes, eh? What size?

Don't fucking question the size of my courgettes you ignorant cunt, or you may find that I go awol for several days.

 

[Badgers]

@ Badgers - Takeaways are so often a disappointment anyway, that it's really ace when you have half decided to get one, but then make something really nice yourself instead for a fraction of the cost, eh?

I much prefer to cook but extreme laziness does interfere at times.

The good thing with spending £10-£20 on a shop is that you get lots of bits left over to work with for days following. Then you can build another meal around the bits and pieces and the cycle continues.

The whole thing would be much nicer if I had a gas cooker rather than the half working 1970s electric monster we are stuck with.

 

[ScallyWag II]

Forgot to take anything out of the freezer so probably pesto pasta (shop bought again ). Bought a basil plant at the weekend so next time pesto's on the menu it will hopefully be homemade (and delicious, hopefully )

 

[mrsfran]

Forgot to take anything out of the freezer so probably pesto pasta (shop bought again ). Bought a basil plant at the weekend so next time pesto's on the menu it will hopefully be homemade (and delicious, hopefully )

Have you repotted the basil? Supermarket pots of basil die faster than a Jim Davidson joke.

 

[Voley]

Don't fucking question the size of my courgettes you ignorant cunt, or you may find that I go awol for several days.

Tbf, dissing the size of someone's 'courgette' is a pretty major affront to their masculinity.

 

[Voley]

Have you repotted the basil? Supermarket pots of basil die faster than a Jim Davidson joke.

True. I had one lasted all of three days. The thyme I bought's still going strong, mind.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Lamb has just gone in a very low oven, with tomatoes, some sun-dried tom puree, olives, anchovies, rosemary, onions and garlic.

 

[Nixon]

No idea I think my lass is cooking tonight

 

[Badgers]

I think we may just 'graze' tonight but will see what the good lady has in mind.

 

[Zorra]

Birthday tea at a new Italian restaurant tonight

 

[May Kasahara]

Stuffed peppers with...something.

Just had a massive lunch though, so hope I feel hungry for it later!

 

[Badgers]

I am hungry now..
For some reason I fancy chicken breasts stuffed with goats cheese.
I doubt we will be having that though

On Saturday I am going to the Farmers Market to stock up big time on Giggly Pig sausages

 

[Voley]

Birthday tea at a new Italian restaurant tonight

Happy birthday!

Spag bol for me tonight.

 

[baldrick]

egg and chips. going to make some bread tonight too

 

[Strumpet]

Pastttttttttttaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[sheothebudworths]

Tbf, dissing the size of someone's 'courgette' is a pretty major affront to their masculinity.

Except that I was actually suggesting that it would do no harm to let it grow a bit bigger...he was insisting that the smaller they were, the better.

 

[moonsi til]

quorn sausages (the apple ones), with mashed potatoes and a mound of veg and plenty of gravy.

 

[Detroit City]

Why are you being so weird about not believing you can get food poisoning from rice?

because i think its bollocks and needlessly scaring people

 

[sheothebudworths]

because i think its bollocks and needlessly scaring people

It's not bollocks you twat, it's scientific fact!

 

[Voley]

Except that I was actually suggesting that it would do no harm to let it grow a bit bigger...he was insisting that the smaller they were, the better.

Whoah. Call Dr Freud.

 

[Orang Utan]

because i think its bollocks and needlessly scaring people

Google it, twerp

 

[sheothebudworths]

Whoah. Call Dr Freud.

Tbf, he was anxious that it might get TOO big...like marrow sized ...but I reminded him that while they do grow quickly, they don't grow THAT quickly!

I also said that I had been preparing AND eating them for far longer than he'd been growing them so he should bow to my superior knowledge.

 

[Voley]

Courgettegate.

 

[sheothebudworths]

And last, but by no means least - I said that bearing in mind that I have also been shopping for them since my early teens (and given that the conversation was about him wanting to sell his) that I just wouldn't bother with one that small.....that if and when I went to buy one, knowing as I do that the taste is subtle and not especially better or worse because of it's size, I would mainly just be looking for a decent portion.








Oh God...that's all EXACTLY how it went!

It was all about sex, wasn't it?

Therapy, d'you think?