Here's What I Had For Dinner - Part III - Don't quote pics!

cnocbui · 22-01-2021 8:41pm

Nuked some green beans, made a batch of rice because there wasn't enough in the freezer, and then nuked some leftover chicken in white wine sauce and had some bean salad. So basically leftovers and the same as the other night.

awec · 22-01-2021 9:11pm

Mystery Eggs midweek kebabery inspired me and had the most wonderful doner with chips for dinner tonight. Complete with token salad for visual effect.

Sitting here full to the tits feeling like I’ve won something.

Mystery Egg · 22-01-2021 9:24pm

awec wrote: »

Mystery Eggs midweek kebabery inspired me and had the most wonderful doner with chips for dinner tonight. Complete with token salad for visual effect.

Sitting here full to the tits feeling like I’ve won something.

Happy days!

I was planning on quesadillas tonight but it was just so cold this happened instead.

Rich cottage pie topped with crispy potato slices. It was amazing.

Last October I made lots of apple chutneys and crumbles so I popped a crumble in the oven from the freezer and we're currently tucking in by the fire with custard and cream.

Dizzyblonde · 22-01-2021 9:31pm

I had vol au vents left over from Christmas - I always buy them and never use them. Tonight I had two of them filled with garlicky mushrooms with creme fraiche.

IrishLad90 · 22-01-2021 9:32pm

Veggie lasagne, dirst time doing it on the stovetop due to chucking out the casserole dish last week.
Quorn chicken pieces, onion, mushroom, celery with wedges and rocket side
Very tasty, but lacked a bit of consistency because a lot of lasagne sheets were stuck together and chucked in the bin

Recliner · 22-01-2021 9:52pm

Prawn and avocado norimaki. Prawn tempura. Prawn Gyozas.
I like prawns.

I made none of it.

L1011 · 23-01-2021 1:40am

Today I did a quite large beef and pork lasagna following recipes that did stuff I'd never normally do. And it worked very well. This is what's different to what I'd normally do:

1: Cook the tomato sauce section separately, and for a loooong time. 90+ minutes simmering. Add some further acids to this early enough on, I used white wine vinegar
2: Cook some finely chopped mushrooms in with the mince - they will basically vanish from sight in the final sauce. Brown/dry out the mince/mushroom mixture, then a further lengthy simmer after merging in the tomato sauce.
3: Fully cook the lasagna sheets, then cool/rinse them in cold water - I'd gone from using them dry, which never worked; to a brief softening in hot water but this helps hugely

Definitely worth looking to see what others are doing even if you think your own recipe is good. Does turn it in a weekend or day off dish not a semi-quick one in this case.

Lolabear2020 · 23-01-2021 1:48am

With all the kebab talk had to add mine. We do similar to the cooking club one but in the slow cooker and it makes the lamb so tender. But we cheat and buy kebab sauce from the local chipper and it goes down a treat! Feel like we’re having a takeaway but surely a lot better as all the grease drains off but not enough for it to dry out. Have converted plenty of family and friends. Definitely beats some of the local places efforts.

Tonight is just creamy white wine chicken with broccoli and egg fried rice.

Love this thread, have followed for years but never post as not great at presentation or portion size !

Dizzyblonde · 23-01-2021 1:55am

Lolabear2020 wrote: »

With all the kebab talk had to add mine. We do similar to the cooking club one but in the slow cooker and it makes the lamb so tender. But we cheat and buy kebab sauce from the local chipper and it goes down a treat! Feel like we’re having a takeaway but surely a lot better as all the grease drains off but not enough for it to dry out. Have converted plenty of family and friends. Definitely beats some of the local places efforts.

Tonight is just creamy white wine chicken with broccoli and egg fried rice.

Love this thread, have followed for years but never post as not great at presentation or portion size !

Welcome! There's no judging presentation or portion sizes here

tangy · 23-01-2021 1:57pm

L1011 wrote: »

3: Fully cook the lasagna sheets, then cool/rinse them in cold water - I'd gone from using them dry, which never worked; to a brief softening in hot water but this helps hugely

I cook the lasagne sheets fully, but no matter how carefully I added them, and how much I stirred them, they'd always stick together, so I'd have the centres all welded together and not cooked. Nowadays I paint the sheets with olive oil. This works - works well - but it's a PITA, so we don't have lasagne very often

Mystery Egg · 23-01-2021 2:51pm

Would fresh lasagna sheets solve this problem?

I used dried but my method is this:

Layer meat sauce
Layer lasagna (only very slightly overlapped, maybe 1cm)
Layer bechamel
Layer cheese

Repeat X 3

Then cook at 180 for 45 mins or so.

Large bottle small glass · 23-01-2021 7:10pm

I like meat especially fatty meat like brisket, lamb, pork belly etc and tend to cook a lot of stew from September to March.

Picked up an oxtail a while back and cooked it as a stew during the week. Sweet Jesus I've never anything as rich in years.

150 degrees for about 5 hrs in a red wine base with the usual veg of celery, carrots onion and garlic with my own stock and some tomato paste. Added a couple of bay leaves.

My recently vegetarian convert wife nearly cracked ðŸ˜€

My almost 4 yr old boy has s new favourite dinner ðŸ˜€

McMurphy · 23-01-2021 8:01pm

I done another Italian style fish pie - simple to make and body delicious.

Pre oven.

30 mins later.

Served on the plate. I normally have a simple salad with it but forgot to get some today, so just had a nice bit of ciabatta with it.

Mystery Egg · 23-01-2021 9:11pm

We had a glazed and baked ham tonight.

Served with cabbage and carrots cooked in the ham stock, mash and parsley sauce.

I also made Smitten Kitchen's salted brown butter rice krispie treats and they're yum, but do you think I could get the small man to taste them? What kind of parent tries to coax their child to eat sweets... and fails? :pac:

Tar.Aldarion · 23-01-2021 10:23pm

Bourneville button, walnut & raisin banana bread.

J Mysterio · 23-01-2021 11:36pm

Spaghetti with Calamari

dubstarr · 24-01-2021 12:48am

Got a takeaway today.

My son treated us all to it. God it was lovely,nice i didnt have to cook.

Dizzyblonde · 24-01-2021 1:21am

We had a takeaway tonight too, Sanuk Thai

24-01-2021 2:18am

Got a kit from yumokits delivered today. Suffice it to say, we’ll be getting it again.

This is the pork belly bao bun.

Tar.Aldarion · 24-01-2021 2:50pm

Going for some moon vibes with my broccoli soup, which was only amazin'

dubstarr · 24-01-2021 3:20pm

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

We had a takeaway tonight too, Sanuk Thai

Yes ours was from All Bar Chicken.I was stuffed for the day.

woodchuck · 24-01-2021 6:31pm

We have a homemade bolognese bubbling away at the moment. Very simple to throw together, but we don't make it often as we leave it on a low simmer for up to 2 hours, so we just don't normally have the time. So much better than using a jar though!

We're going all out with fresh pasta and garlic bread! Both shop bought, but still :P

Tar.Aldarion · 24-01-2021 7:26pm

Miso, garlic, soy sauce, agave & lemon fried noodles with cannellini beans, mushrooms, broccoli, avocado & spring onion. Topped with black & white sesame seeds, ground orange peel, cayenne pepper, poppy seeds, black pepper, ginger & crushed seaweed.

cefh17 · 24-01-2021 8:19pm

I would eat a bowl of those noodles by themselves!

Chicken pot pie here this evening, didn't have leftover chicken so did chicken breasts sous vide to try and keep them juicy

Dizzyblonde · 24-01-2021 8:57pm

We had slow roasted barbecue ribs with Airfryer chips.

dubstarr · 24-01-2021 9:22pm

Not dinner but just made chilli cheese toast and its lovelY. Only thing missing is a bit of bacon.
I know for the next time.

Shenshen · 25-01-2021 8:55am

Matter paneer, chana masala with jeera rice and garlic and coriander naans. Sure what else would you be doing on a Sunday afternoon?

Dizzyblonde · 25-01-2021 8:50pm

Spag bol

Ryath · 25-01-2021 9:05pm

Beef and cashew nut stir fry. Normally do noodles in it but forgot I was out. The rice made a nice change though.

Mystery Egg · 25-01-2021 9:22pm

We had spinach, ricotta and pine nut ravioli (shop bought) with tomato sauce (home made), salad and garlic bread. It was quite horrible! The only nice part was the salad.

Here's What I Had For Dinner - Part III - Don't quote pics!

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