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What's for tea tonight? (pt7)

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harpo said:
It was going to be pork sausages with braised red cabbage (premade supermarket stuff) but when I took the sleeve off the 'cabbage' it turned out to be something that looks and smells like curried cauliflower. How weird is that. I fucking hate cauliflower.
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so just the sausages then?
 
To night, a little chicken curry thingie t I've thrown together from bits and bobs.
Waste not want not.
:)
 
sojourner said:
Ooo! Did you do it? what's it like?
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Um no :oops: Meant to go out to buy some fresh olive oil as the one i have is bbe september and there's only a few glugs left in the bottle but got well into a book so never quite made it out of the house :oops:

Tomorrow i have to go out, so i'll get some and make it then!

Tonight i'm having calamari and chips from the freezer.
 
Dunno. I had chicken and potatoes and stuff at a picnic earlier and then a burger later because I was a bit pissed. :oops:

Might have some toast later or just some strawberries and meringue.
 
I'm making my brother spaghetti bolognaise but to be honest I just want a couple of crumpets.
 
2 pints of thatchers cider which is enough to get me tipsy then we strolled down for a curry at the lush Mother India. There were 4 of us and we settled on popadums with raita, spiced onions and mango chutney and an off the menu dish of chilli pakora.

The pakora was basically green chillis in a light batter with salad and a yoghurty dip. I had never had them before nor had my BF. Our 2 friends we were eating with had but were not so keen. I thought we were going to be served a spicey veg pakora! The first 1 raised my temp and made me cough, my BF got the hiccups and our friend could not finish hers. After a few minutes once I adjusted to the heat I dived back in for another! Totally ace they were...gave us all the giggles too!

Main dish we ordered X2 bolied rice, X2 garlic naan, a main dish of paneer makhini, a main dish of chilli paneer, a half portion of bombay mushrooms, bombay potatoes and 1 of mixed Indian veg bhuna (madras hot). We left nothing for a doggy bag. I also managed to squeeze in 2 bottles of Magners plus the chocolate that comes with the bill.
 
we had rainbow trout on salad with seeds, seaweed, tomatoes, peppers and tomatoes. was very very quick and tasty.
I have got two butternut squash to used this week so I'll have to be inventive. I can feel a risotto coming on but what else.... :hmm:
 
I boiled a ham hock yesterday so tonight it's ham and bean soup made with the stock.

I also made cheese and onion bread yesterday and fucked it up royally. I put too much oil and salt in it and it barely rose and didn't cook. Straight in the bin.
 
Chinese last night (just a small one) which was not too bad.

Tonight I am making beef patties. We went to the Kennington Farmers Market to stock up on the Giggly Pig sausages but arrived too late and they were sold out so grabbed two patties which will be served with something (not sure yet) later.
 
My son is in York for the week with my mum, so I took a mysterious portion of frozen something out of the freezer for myself....which has turned out to be black bean chilli :cool: ...and the small girl will be having pasta with the last of the tomato sauce I made yesterday.*



*I discovered that the frozen squid I've been using does much better cooked slowly in a nice tomato sauce, than it does quickly fried/griddled (no surprise really, it's definitely one of those things that is far, far better fresh for quick cooking..but a shame all the same cos I LOVE fresh squid griddled or fried with some garlic and ginger, or deep fried in breadcrumbs/semolina :( ) so I'll be doing it that way again cos it was delicious over some pasta, with a bit of parmesan on top! :cool:
 
Ribeye Ribeye.

Tonight and I've a surplus of field mushrooms from the w/e's BBQ. Mushroom risotto with giant baked mushrooms?
 
I made a lovely chickpea and aubergene curry yesterday. There was quite a lot of it so that should be feeding me for the next few days.
 
Field Mushroom, puy lentil and thyme casserole

250 ml red wine
50 ml soy sauce
450 ml water
225g puy lentils
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 large onion, halved and slice
50 ml sunflower oil
1.25 kg field mushrooms, peeled and thickly sliced
1 bay leaf
100g cashew nuts
1 bunch of thyme, leaves picked off the stalks, or 1 tsp dried thyme


Put the wine, soy sauce, water and lentils in a pot. Bring to the boil, then simmer for about 35 minutes, until the lentils are just tender. Set aside.

In a large casserole, sweat the garlic and the onion in the oil until soft.

Add the mushrooms, bay leaf (and thyme if you are using dried). When the mushrooms are just going soft, add the lentils with their cooking liquor and remove from the heat.

Whizz the cashews to a fine powder in a blender. While still whizzing, add the thyme (if using fresh leaves) and enough water to make a thick cream. Stir this mixture into the casserole, reheat, check seasoning and serve.
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Btw - it is of course fantastic with the wine, but I've made it with veg stock before and it's still very good.
 
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