Cooking Tonight #5

[Snoop Puss]

Lentil soup. Sounds very plain, but this is one of my favourite suppers at this time of year.

[Bren In Pots]

Mushroom stir fry with rice this evening.

[greenishfing]

A full fridge again.

Tonight corned beef crispbakes, corn on the cob, spicy couscous salad and ratatouille.

Apple and blueberry crumble with custard or cream.

[Snoop Puss]

Fake paella (sausage, courgette, asparagus, artichoke hearts and butter beans), which would locally be known as arroz con cosas (rice with things).

[Jay22]

Lasagne and garlic bread tonight!

Snoop, I make what I call poor mans Paella using chicken etc but that’s a nicer way of saying it. Going to adopt that if that’s ok!😀

[Snoop Puss]

^Do you mean 'arroz con cosas'? If so, that's a common term here, so you wouldn't be borrowing it from me, you'd be using a term well loved by most of Spain, I imagine. Most 'paella' dishes here are not described as 'paella' but as 'arroz con' whatever. If Jamie Oliver had called his dish arroz con pollo y chorizo (rice with chicken and chorizo), he wouldn't have been laughed at at all in Spain, as it's a really common rice dish here. It's just not paella. He really was mocked here for that and still occasionally gets a mention as being an idiot...

Let's you and me start popularising arroz con or rice with.

[Mark Rand]

We're having chicken otto tonight. That's chicken risotto without the rice.

[Snoop Puss]

We're having chicken otto tonight. That's chicken risotto without the rice.

Chicken the Eighth. Tastier than Henry, doubtless.