Cooking Tonight #5

[greenishfing]

Oooooohhh. The fish, chips and scraps were amazing, and I am not a chip lover normally. We had one portion of fish and chips between us and couldn't finish it. No chance of a chip butty as just too full. I don't know why the chips from this fish and chip shop are just so, so good, probably some really unhealthy reason ........ and I don't care!

[Bren In Pots]

Our usual Saturday evening tagliatelle, bol, pesto, parmesan and garlic bread.

Making butternut squash soup for lunch time.

[greenishfing]

Tonight I'll probably make the tomato soup I was going to make last night with bread and butter and a dish of grated parmesan.

The other little custard tart for Mr GF.

[Nicos]

Broccoli and mushroom bake followed by clementines

I’ll leave those other profiteroles until tomorrow

[Snoop Puss]

Apparently our agricultural co-op is selling caulis and romanescos grown by a member for just €1.50 each (normally now around €5 here), so if Mr Snoop is in time and they've still got some left, we're having a huge dish of cauliflower cheese, with salad leaves on the side (odd but a special request from M).

If no caulis left, it'll be broccoli curry with broccoli from the freezer.

Carrot and apple soup for lunch.

[Florence Fennel]

I'm glad I made the wraps - Himself just wants a sandwich!

[Nicos]

Snoop!…go for lots of caulies…you can zap them into granules and freeze them so they take up less space…then add them to cheese bakes etc… Can’t not benefit from such a great offer!

or make pizza bases with them…or add them to rice to lower the calorie intake of the rice….

[MelanieSW]

Tinned mackerel in spicy tomato sauce, accompanied by a kidney bean-sweetcorn-cucumber salad and a pretzel - can this be called cooking?

[greenishfing]

Already decided, unless Mr GF is feeling awful, tomorrow is, for some unfathomable reason, a meal fit for a Sunday treat:

Fillet steak with pepper sauce, potatoes dauphinois, beer battered onion rings and tender stem broccoli.

I am wavering between profiteroles filled with brandy cream served with warm chocolate sauce OR lemon meringue pie for dessert. They are both favourites of us both but I normally only tend to make them when we have guests.

This is all obviously still open to change and/or upgrades.

[Nicos]

^^^^ sounds delish gf! Got to treat yourselves from time to time like that

[Snoop Puss]

Tinned mackerel in spicy tomato sauce, accompanied by a kidney bean-sweetcorn-cucumber salad and a pretzel - can this be called cooking?

Maybe not cooking, but how about curating your plate?

GF, that sounds like a very special meal. For a special event?

[greenishfing]

No, no special event. I just don't seem to have made anything really nice for us for a long time.

[Bren In Pots]

Cornish pasties with mashed potatoes, kale, carrots and sweetcorn.

[Nicos]

I’m fancying chicken or turkey breast with jacket sweet potatoes and beans

[Snoop Puss]

M is used to buying caulis by the piece in the UK. When the prices shot up last year here, they started selling them by the kilo. So his €1.50 per cauli was in fact €1.50 per kilo. Still cheap by recent standards though. And absolutely delicious with a really cheesy sauce.

Anyway, today is roast chicken and veg done with hasselback potatoes in the marmite. Lemon cake for afters. Hope the cream will still whip, as it froze in the fridge last night (just goes to show night-time temperatures are dropping).