Cooking tonight (Mk4)

[greenishfing]

Those faggots sound very tempting, Bren, but I'll stick with the planned tandoori chicken with salad and lemon rice.

Edited to say: Tandoori chicken didn't happen. Mr Snoop liked the sound of Yorkshire puds. So roast chicken with the usual trimmings, plus Yorkshire puds. Thanks, GF, for suggesting bread flour. Best ones I've ever made.

I'm glad it was a useful tip for you.

[Florence Fennel]

Roast lamb,potatoes,carrots,cauliflower cheese, YPs and mint gravy. Might not need a pudding after that lot

[Snoop Puss]

I'm glad it was a useful tip for you.

Not as good as yours by any stretch of the imagination, but much better than my earlier efforts.

[greenishfing]

Not as good as yours by any stretch of the imagination, but much better than my earlier efforts.

I am so suggestible. Yorkshire puddings tomorrow I think.

[Snoop Puss]

There's a tiny amount of chicken left (it was more of a poussin than a chicken) that I was going to turn into soup. But Mr Snoop is keen to repeat the Yorkshire puds, so the leftover chicken for him, extra veg for me. And Yorkshire puds again...

[Nicos]

OH is fancying mushroom risotto tonight , so that and a baby leaf spinach side salad.

Oranges for pud

[Nicos]

Change of plan…..risotto will now be tomorrow- we ended up having dim sum. Yum

[Snoop Puss]

Risotto here too, but a squash one. So squisotto and a side salad.

Must roast the squash today in readiness.

[Bren In Pots]

This evening we're having veg stir fry with egg fried rice.

[Penellype]

I don't usually do this, but I had some cooked chicken and a parsnip for tea and wanted to try something different. So I looked up recipes and couldn't find anything suitable, and decided to adapt a recipe for chicken curry.

Original ingredients:
chicken breast
bell pepper
tin tomatoes
curry powder
ground almonds
garlic
lemon juice
coriander leaf

My ingredients
cooked chicken thigh
onions (instead of peppers)
cooked parsnip (instead of tomatoes)
chicken stock (to make up for the absence of tomato juice)
curry powder
ground almonds
garlic powder
ground coriander and cumin

(I like extremely mild curry - you could add other spices to pep it up a bit)

The basic instructions were to rub spices into the chicken, cook it in a pan then add everything else and simmer until soft. I adapted this to cook the onion until soft, add everything else except the chicken and stock, cook briefly then add the stock and blend until smooth, adding a bit of the parsnip water as the mixture was rather thick. I then had a nice, somewhat sweet tasting mild curry sauce to pour over my chicken and reheat.

There were no quantities in the original recipe, so I just flung in what I thought would be about right. The amount of parsnip that would normally have done me 2 meals has made enough sauce to freeze half for later.

[Nicos]

Sounds lovely Pen.
I’ve frozen a turkey and mango curry for a friend who is coming to stay. She really can’t cope with any heat so I didn’t bother putting any curry in it at all!….the rest of us can mix in something hot at the time. Not ideal for us , but it actually tastes lovely!
I love fiddling with recipes- often because I don’t have everything in stock.

[Penellype]

Sounds lovely Pen.
I’ve frozen a turkey and mango curry for a friend who is coming to stay. She really can’t cope with any heat so I didn’t bother putting any curry in it at all!….the rest of us can mix in something hot at the time. Not ideal for us , but it actually tastes lovely!
I love fiddling with recipes- often because I don’t have everything in stock.

I just got sick of eating fried or boiled parsnips and wanted to do something else with them. I like them best roasted, but I don't roast things for myself as it doesn't really work when cooking for one.

[bramble]

Pork chops, carrots, brocolli, mash potato and gravy.

[Snoop Puss]

Sounds good, Penellype.

Tell you what I haven't made for ages: curried parsnip and oat soup. Sounds a bit grim and the colour isn't fantastic, but it tastes lovely. And so creamy. Lots of recipes online. I used to do one like this, just no cream as really not necessary:
https://recipeland.com/recipe/v/curr...nip-soup-43537

[greenishfing]

Pen, glad to hear from someone else who substitutes ingredients and experiments. Let us know how it tastes.

Tonight, yet again, at Mr GF's request, Leek and potato soup. He now says can he have it at least twice a week. It is his favourite at the moment with fresh bread.