Cooking Tonight #5

[Snoop Puss]

Lunch: spag bol, yogurt for afters. Bol from the freezer for speed and convenience. Vegetarian supper up the valley later.

[greenishfing]

Scampi, potato waffles, salad and homemade tartare sauce.

Yoghurt for Mr GF and cheese and crackers for me.

[bramble]

Fish, mashed potatoes, carrots and peas.

[bramble]

Stewed apple and custard

[Nicos]

I decided to make a rice pudding and tuna quiche in the wood stove seeing as it was lit.
Just as well as it looks like my electric oven isn’t cooperating
Looks like we need to hobble into the New Year and buy a replacement in the Sales. Tis no problem…we have a small work top oven and a woodfired stove for now.
Maybe OH can fiddle with it a bit more in the mean time….

So…the roast veg will be for tomorrow or for soup or freezing.
At least we’re having chips to commiserate the event

[Snoop Puss]

That's an unusual flavour combination for a quiche, Nicos, rice pudding and tuna!

Edited to add: commiserations about the oven. Not great at this time of year.

[Nicos]

That's an unusual flavour combination for a quiche, Nicos, rice pudding and tuna! .

Ah…the power of the comma

[Nicos]

Oven owes us nothing…9 years ago we paid 200€ for a second hand oven worth well over 2,000€ .
Lets hope the replacement lasts even longer,

[Snoop Puss]

Another vegetarian supper up the valley. M's cooking has improved dramatically! It'll be a shock to go back to cooking every night again.

Almond paste for stollen and bread.

[Bren In Pots]

Baked Mackerel with onion, potatoes and french beans.

[Nicos]

We found a setting which works in the oven so managed to cook the roasted veg…eventually, so that’s tonight’s supper instead with the last of the tuna quiche.
Rice pudding for pud

[greenishfing]

I'm planning on making salmon, pea and sweetcorn risotto tonight, but I'll have to pass the fish and chip shop on the way to Mr GF's brother's flat this afternoon, so ....... plans might change.

[greenishfing]

Nicos, I'm happy to hear that your oven is still soldiering on. One word of advice, do not try and cook a Christmas cake in a tabletop halogen oven! When my normal oven gave up the ghost one year, I tried. It looked okayish. Unfortunately, only the top inch or so was cooked (burned). The rest was raw. I tried turning it upside down and putting it back in...... I then ended up with a burned top and bottom and a raw middle. The birds got a treat. When I regaled my sister with the sorry tale, she made me one.

[Nicos]

Thanks for that gf ^^^^ yikes! ( but it did make me chuckle a tad at your ingenuity!)

Its a basic top and bottom electric one- but with the luxury of a fan, but I had noticed it doesn’t do roast parsnips the same and I need to par boil those first…so thanks for the heads up - I’d sort of forgotten about that.

[greenishfing]

Nicos, if your oven is a well known make maybe you can get a new thermostat for it. I know when mine died there were lots of places did spares for electric ovens.... but not gas.