Tonight I cooked...

[Pinno718]

Made 800g of lean stewing beef go a long way yesterday, with a pile of onions, garlic and plenty of pearl barley to soak up the goodness. Three hours gentle cooking, served with a baked potato. Doesn't look pretty, but darned tasty and filling. That's several days' worth of suppers sorted.

You have the choice of 50,000 adoring, mature French ladies to cook you dinner. What on earth are you playing at?

#thedickensiantrumpetplayingcyclist

 

[briantrumpet]

Needed something quick and filling so a quick Aldi dash on my way home from work, and got the bits for m standard bangers in mushroom and onion gravy, with baby spuds & carrots. Did the job nicely. 20 decent sausages for £5.50, mushrooms 87p, onions about 50p, so about £1 per meal, excluding the veg. (Haven't done ready meals since March 2020, when I got into the habit of bulk cooking to avoid The Virus in shops.)

 

[Jameshow]

Needed something quick and filling so a quick Aldi dash on my way home from work, and got the bits for m standard bangers in mushroom and onion gravy, with baby spuds & carrots. Did the job nicely. 20 decent sausages for £5.50, mushrooms 87p, onions about 50p, so about £1 per meal, excluding the veg. (Haven't done ready meals since March 2020, when I got into the habit of bulk cooking to avoid The Virus in shops.)

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I sometimes do that I also bung the potatoes in the air fryer as a little treat!

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Spinach and ricotta gnocchi tonight with pesto dressing. The ricotta, gnocchi and pesto were all more made.

Starting making our own cheese during the first lockdown when we bought a cheesemaking kit online.

 

[Pinno718]

Spinach and ricotta gnocchi tonight with pesto dressing. The ricotta, gnocchi and pesto were all more made.

Starting making our own cheese during the first lockdown when we bought a cheesemaking kit online.

Are you near me in D&G?

[i'm a poet]

 

[Gwylan]

Spinach and ricotta gnocchi tonight with pesto dressing. The ricotta, gnocchi and pesto were all more made.

Starting making our own cheese during the first lockdown when we bought a cheesemaking kit online.

Ooh, that sounds fun.
My diet forbids cheese. That just makes it even more desirable.
Perhaps I should nahe Ny own?

 

[seanoconn]

Needed something quick and filling so a quick Aldi dash on my way home from work, and got the bits for m standard bangers in mushroom and onion gravy, with baby spuds & carrots. Did the job nicely. 20 decent sausages for £5.50, mushrooms 87p, onions about 50p, so about £1 per meal, excluding the veg. (Haven't done ready meals since March 2020, when I got into the habit of bulk cooking to avoid The Virus in shops.)

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Looks like something you might see in a faded copy of your mums Delia Smith Complete Cookery Course book 👍

 

[seanoconn]

Eating out tonight but yesterday was a return to form with a simple but well executed Vienna schnitzel, heart attack inducing levels of buttery mash and a carrot salad.

 

[briantrumpet]

Looks like something you might see in a faded copy of your mums Delia Smith Complete Cookery Course book 👍

My cookery is very basic and improvised. Delia Smith was a bit too cordon bleu for my mum, bless her, who learnt most of her cooking skills from her mum in the WW2 and after, so the weekly menu was stuff like cottage pie, fish pie, toad-in-the-hole, fish fingers & chips on Fridays, beef stews with 8oz meat between four of us, and a roast of a cheap cut of meat (on Saturdays, so we could have cold meat on Sundays while watching University Challenge with Bamber Gascoigne).

 

[PK99]

My cookery is very basic and improvised. Delia Smith was a bit too cordon bleu for my mum, bless her, who learnt most of her cooking skills from her mum in the WW2 and after, so the weekly menu was stuff like cottage pie, fish pie, toad-in-the-hole, fish fingers & chips on Fridays, beef stews with 8oz meat between four of us, and a roast of a cheap cut of meat (on Saturdays, so we could have cold meat on Sundays while watching University Challenge with Bamber Gascoigne).

Sunday: Half a shoulder of Lamb, boned and rolled. Cooked till brown like shoe leather. Apple pie with a soggy bottom
Monday: Cold, sliced lamb
Tuesday: Minced leftover lamb shepherd's pie
Friday: Cod with cheese sauce

Like clockwork.....

 

[presta]

Last night's dinner was going to be roast chicken, roast parsnip & roast potatoes, but when I cut the parsnip open I was wondering where the smell was coming from. I don't know what the farmer had been marinating it in, but it smelt of oil-based paint all the way through.

So I had mixed veg.

 

[briantrumpet]

Sunday: Half a shoulder of Lamb, boned and rolled. Cooked till brown like shoe leather. Apple pie with a soggy bottom
Monday: Cold, sliced lamb
Tuesday: Minced leftover lamb shepherd's pie
Friday: Cod with cheese sauce

Like clockwork.....

Haha, cremated meat, yes, definitely a thing of my parents' generation, I think. Me, I prefer it if a good vet could bring it back to life even after cooking.

 

[dicko]

Lambs Liver, bacon pieces, onions, mashed potatoes, peas and gravy.

 

[Reynard]

The parental unit had requested a poncy evening meal for Mother's Day.

I was short on time as I was writing up my reports after judging at a cat show on Saturday, but there's lots of really nice stuff that doesn't take too much faffage. So took scallops and raw king prawns out of the freezer and did a lovely seafood gratin, which we scarfed with tiger loaf.

Still some left, so will add some sauteed leeks and a bit of extra stock, and will turn that into a pasta sauce for tonight.

Will also be making a green soup with leeks, celery, lettuce, potato, spinach and a big bunch of foraged nettles.

 

[Pinno718]

The parental unit had requested a poncy evening meal for Mother's Day.

I was short on time as I was writing up my reports after judging at a cat show on Saturday....

Fix ! Beans wasn't there and wasn't invited. No coincidence really.