Cooking tonight (Mk4)

[Snoop Puss]

The joy of being the cook is I get to choose the menu.

Ain't that the truth!

Friends here for lunch as well.

No proper starter but a kind of onion and olive focaccia for nibbles, nan e-barbari bread to go with the meal.

Lamb tagine with apricots and aubergines with Persian saffron rice. For afters, in honour of our Italian friend who's coming, an Italian lemon polenta and almond cake with whipped cream and raspberries from the freezer.

Can't imagine we'll want much supper...

Edited: decided against the Italian polenta cake. Way too much butter after the lamb. An Italian ring cake with yogurt and sunflower oil instead. Still nice. Still Italian.

[Nicos]

I’m sat here drooling at your menus peeps!

Homemade cassoulet for us with baked oranges for pud.

[greenishfing]

I’m sat here drooling at your menus peeps!

Homemade cassoulet for us with baked oranges for pud.

I'm now drooling at the thought of homemade cassoulet. I've only ever eaten it in France and Lebanon.....never in England. Have you a recipe?

[Nicos]

A recipe?…sorry, nah…I’m more of a ‘bung in what I’ve got in ‘ sort of lass…based on a selection of recipes I check out to see what’s in clouded in something specific.
Our household has a cellar full of preserves and dried legumes, and three freezers full of meat, veg and fruit etc. It’s more a question of ‘ Ready steady Cook ‘ here but with thousands of ingredients to choose from …oldest being used up first of course!

Todays is roughly based on this though….
https://www.seriouseats.com/traditio...ssoulet-recipe
if that’s a help?
Ours is a mix of lentils and beans, celery seed instead of celery, lardons and belly pork and turkey for the meat and no gelatin….

[bramble]

No cooking for me tonight.
Eating out with the family.

[greenishfing]

Tonight is easy. Leftovers from yesterday. Chicken, fried up potatoes and vegetables and gravy (a.k.a. bubble and squeak) and gravy. Followed by leftover lemon meringue pie. 😋😋😋

[Nicos]

Oh wow that looks yummy. My mouth instantly watered looking at that

Meatballs in a tomato and pepper sauce served with spaghetti .
The rest of the fruit pie for pud

[Bren In Pots]

Slow cooker Brisket in beer with my parsnips, sweet potato, carrots, onions and celery.

Will have colcannon potatoes using my Kale.

Leftovers here as well GF.

[Florence Fennel]

Roast lamb (cooked and carved from the freezer), baby potatoes carrots and greens. Banana bread for a dessert

[Snoop Puss]

We ended up having a vegetable tagine with chickpeas last night. Pretty good and a darn sight cheaper than the lamb on Sunday...

Supposedly doing a noodle version of paella today (called a fideuà) but I can't be bothered. I feel a bit cooked out. Squisotto is an easy option instead if I can't get in touch with friend up the valley and tell him to fend for himself. If I can, it'll be beans on toast for Mr Snoop and me.

Edited to add: impressive looking lemon meringue pie there, GF.

[Bren In Pots]

Mushroom and veg stir fry wit rice this evening.

[greenishfing]

Tonight chicken Kiev, tomato, pesto and mozzarella bake, beer battered onion rings and garlic bread.

Snoop, I am drooling.😋 I actually think I prefer fideuà to paella. Maybe I'll attempt one, one day soon now you've put the idea in my head.

[Florence Fennel]

We seem to becoming increasingly predictable in the choice of meals because Himself is unwilling to try anything he thinks is "foreign" so it's chicken and salad here again. I've managed to successfully smuggle grapes in with the too much mayo, so today I've put a few walnuts in there. We'll see

[Snoop Puss]

Tonight chicken Kiev, tomato, pesto and mozzarella bake, beer battered onion rings and garlic bread.

Snoop, I am drooling.😋 I actually think I prefer fideuà to paella. Maybe I'll attempt one, one day soon now you've put the idea in my head.

I think I'd rather have what you're having, truth be told!

Anyway, fideuà is off tonight. Tomorrow instead. It's going to be fideuà del pastor. I kept the bones from Sunday's leg of lamb to make the stock and kept back a small amount of the meat. Fideuà is a great way of making a small amount of expensive ingredients go a long way! Here's a recipe in Spanish, but Google Translate will provide you with a decent version in English if you need it.
https://www.grupopastores.coop/recet...ua-de-cordero/

[Nicos]

That looks lovely Snoop.

We decided on duck breast (wow…I couldn’t believe how expensive it’s suddenly become!…bird flu no doubt?)…with mashed sweet potato and peas with cranberry sauce followed by raspberry macaron dessert from Lidl.
And a bottle of fizz of course!