The 'Here's what I had for dinner last night' thread - Part I

mike65

*burps*

Minder

@ S.R.F.C.

The masterstock chicken was very good, but with all the flavour boosters,it could hardly fail. I used chicken thighs, poached in the stock for 20 minutes then roasted in the oven with the spiced butter for 20 minutes. The masterstock I made from scratch, it was chicken stock, shaoshing wine, soy sauce, star anise, cinnamon stick, dried shiitake mushrooms, dried tangerine peel, fresh ginger, garlic and spring onion. I skimmed the finished stock and froze it - will see what it's like after a few uses. I made one before - seduced by the tales of age old masterstocks, but after a few uses it had a film on top that gave me the shudders, so I binned it.

Last night we had pies - made months ago, they'd lurked in the dark recesses of the freezer so last night I cooked them frpm frozen in a 150c oven for just over an hour. Turned out very well. One was a beef and guinness and the other I think was a venison. Need a motief to be able to identify a previously made pie.

Jesus Wept

mike65 wrote: »

*burps*

Bit of a beast, did you finish it?
What is it?

UrbanSea

I was going to ask the same question Rigger.
Take away for me tonight.
Chicken curry with noodles and chips,was so full after.

unseen

A piece of Upside Down apple pie with a glass of strong red dessert wine is the ticket for a relaxing night.

mike65

The-Rigger wrote: »

Bit of a beast, did you finish it?
What is it?

UrbanSea wrote: »

I was going to ask the same question Rigger.

Tis this

neuro-praxis

I was in Zest in Clane last night; it was a bit meh. I fancied simple, tasty food and had smokies to start, pasta and meatballs, and their ice cream. The 3 others all had the swordfish main - €20 for a griddled swordfish steak, and nothing with it. Generally unnimpressed. Nothing was delicious enough to finish.

foodaholic

I had punjabi chicken curry, first time cooking it. Real homely dish

neuro-praxis

Onion bhaji cutlets and lamb pasanda with basmati and naan.

Stheno

Beef, pork and chicken in Black Pepper sauce with egg fried rice, from the Chinese recipes thread

Enjoyed by all

the beer revolu

Saturday night we had:

Asian crab cakes with carrot and fennel slaw.

Slow roast shoulder of pork with a garlic, ginger, lemon zest, chilli and spice coating.
Ginger and lemon cabbage.
Roast Jerusalem artichokes.
Butterbean stew.

Irish cheese board.

Twas good but there were too many flavours going on on the main course plate, also I'd hoped that the pork would be more falling apart after 4 hours.
I'm my own harshest critic;)

angeldelight

I was out for dinner yest (Avenue in Maynooth) so I had bruschetta which were very tasty followed by some amazing lamb - it was so soft I could have eaten it with a spoon! The lamb was served with very creamy mash and baby carrots. Sticky toffee pudding to finish, gorgeous!

psycho-hope

chicken and barley stew made in the slow cooker:D

Faith

I started out planning to make BaZmO*'s carbonara from the Cooking Club, but it mutated according to ingredients. Instead of tagliatelle, I used linguine. I used pork belly cubes from Aldi, which I fried until lovely and crispy with some garlic. Because I haven't been eating much veg, I threw in a rake of petit pois and fried them with the bacon. I didn't have any parmesan, but I had half a ball of mozzarella which needed to be used up, so I added it to the frying pan to melt it, then added cream and and egg. The residual heat cooked the egg, and with a bit of seasoning it was DELICIOUS!

mike65

Chips, mackerel omlette.

reallyrose

A nice dish of macaroni cheese.
A roux + cheese, into pasta, into the oven. Nom.

Minder

Saturday I was at a family celebration Persian style - Sister in Law's Brother in Law (make sense?) got married. Dinner was whole roast lamb and lots of other goodies.

Last night I made a roast poussin with wilted spinach and anya potatoes, a brown bread sauce and a tarragon emulsion. The brown bread sauce was a chicken stock reduction with shallots, a slice of brown bread, cream and two smoked mussels. The flavour was very good but the recipe I used was too heavy on the cream. The mussels add a smokey umami flavour thats not at all fishy. Next time less cream and more stock.

Wurly

Tonight I made a stuffed roasted red pepper. Inside the pepper I had a mix of quinoa, red pesto, goats cheese, mushrooms and olives. It was fab.

I made too much quinoa so will be having it for breakfast with blueberries, natural yoghurt and honey.:)

S.R.F.C.

Had some lovely chicken fajitas, made with some carrot, long red sweet peppers, cumin, paprika and assorted other things lying about. Was delish.

four18

Minder wrote: »

Saturday I was at a family celebration Persian style - Sister in Law's Brother in Law (make sense?) got married. Dinner was whole roast lamb and lots of other goodies.

Last night I made a roast poussin with wilted spinach and anya potatoes, a brown bread sauce and a tarragon emulsion. The brown bread sauce was a chicken stock reduction with shallots, a slice of brown bread, cream and two smoked mussels. The flavour was very good but the recipe I used was too heavy on the cream. The mussels add a smokey umami flavour thats not at all fishy. Next time less cream and more stock.

Ignore my ignorance but whats a Poussion ? Anya spuds ? You should be on telly !!

Honey-ec

four18 wrote: »

Ignore my ignorance but whats a Poussion ? Anya spuds ? You should be on telly !!

A poussin is a small/young chicken. They're great with a spice rub, spatchcocked and done on the barbie. You've got me on the anya spuds, though... *runs off to google*

Back on-topic, last night consisted of a Lemsip and an early night, as I'm smothered

psycho-hope

linda mcCarthy vegan sausage rolls and chips

have an experiment in the slow cooker, it was ment to be mongolian beef, but the beef i had in the fridge didnt smell right so into the bin it went

reallyrose

I marinated some chicken in brine, garlic, lime juice and chilli and grilled it. Ate it with pittas and mange tout.

I also made shortbread, but I made an mess of it, it's really dry and crumbely.
I guess I got the ratios of flour to fat wrong.
It's tasty crumbles though! Can't imagine what I will do with a tray of crumbled shortbread.

Clementine

reallyrose wrote: »

Can't imagine what I will do with a tray of crumbled shortbread.

You could turn it into the base of a cheesecake?

Last night was battered plaice, mushy peas, roast baby potatoes and rocket.

Tonight was fillet steak cooked medium rare, potato wedges, roast balsamic red onions and rocket.

Tomorrow will be spaghetti and meatballs with fresh ciabatta

Minder

Anya is a type of salad potato, finger thick and a bit knobbly. Nice nutty flavour. Tonight we had a risotto of smoked haddock with jerusalem artichoke puree.

Acoshla

Made an absolute killing in Tesco today in the reduced section, gonna be eating like kings for weeks!

Today we had pork chow mein, it was alright, the noodles were lovely though, stir fried them with soy sauce after they were cooked.

Sticky toffee cake with sultanas and prunes for dessert, made some toffee sauce and put some whipped cream on top when it was warm from the oven, yum!

Wurly

Salmon fillet with lemon juice and black pepper, spinach and creamy mashed potato. YUM

neuro-praxis

Last night we had smoked mackerel pate with crudites, chicken and lentil curry with brown rice and a baked apple with frozen yoghurt.

Wurly

neuro-praxis wrote: »

Last night we had smoked mackerel pate with crudites, chicken and lentil curry with brown rice and a baked apple with frozen yoghurt.

can I come and live at your house??:pac::p

UrbanSea

Chicken curry.
Hmmmmm