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

andym1

On the way home I picked up some venison and leek sausages which I had with some mash, garden peas and onion gravy with a crusty turnover and real butter on the side. Best grub in ages !

gjc

Dinner early today- Chicken Continental

Chicken, tomatoes, peppers, courgettes, garlic, scallions, parsley thyme, rice (for the family)

I had the rice free version. Lovely jubbly..satisfied now....:)

I know I am probably repeating myself but the grub posted on here is fab...think Im going to have to rename this thread "The Heres what gjc didnt have for dinner last night thread"

LaChatteGitane

Yesterday was Ardennes pork loin pot roast with sauteed celeriac.




Tonight, iceberg 'wraps"
Stuffed with a salad of thinly sliced peppers (green, yellow and red), carrots, fennel, onion - dressed with a spoon of sour cream and mayonnaise.
Topped with spiced chicken pieces.

gjc

LaChatteGitane - absolutely gorgeous food and pictures.. when is the cookbook coming out??? I can only aspire to that one day...you have a great flair for food

Minder

Stir fried shrimp with XO sauce, bean shoots, bamboo shoots, oven dried pineapple and spring onions served with jasmine rice.

the beer revolu

Absolutely horrible chicken wings.
I managed to completely balls up an incredibly simple dish.
Glad I was only cooking for one!

More details in the E&C chicken wings thread for anyone interested.

joanofarc

the beer revolu wrote: »

Absolutely horrible chicken wings.
I managed to completely balls up an incredibly simple dish.
Glad I was only cooking for one!

More details in the E&C chicken wings thread for anyone interested.[/QUOTE

Glad its not just me that makes an arse of things on occasion! Mostly you're food looks amazing! Food porn at its best!

Toast4532

Last night we had a very late dinner of lasagne. Something weird happened with the lasagne too.

We picked up the lasagne in the supermarket and it was fine, it wasn't frozen or anything, then we walked home and put away everything a while later I took the lasagne out of the fridge (not freezer) and it was frozen.

I had to leave it on the counter top for a while to let it soften and then cut off a piece and cook it from frozen, took over an hour for it to cook.

Then I decided to make a Baileys cheesecake. All went well until I put the liquid mixture on top of the biscuit base.

Someone had bent the side of the tin (it's a loose bottom tin) and I didn't realise until I saw a puddle of mixture on the counter and lifted up the tin to find the mixture pissing out, so ended up have to pour the mixture back into a glass bowl, then pour the biscuit base into another tin and then pour the liquid mixture back on top of it.

I'm not looking forward to eating that cheesecake as there's bits of the biscuit base sitting/set at the top of the baileys mixture.

Kintarō Hattori

Mince meatballs with lentils, garam masala, salt and pepper- fried in the pan. Sauce consisted of: half tin of coconut milk, 3 full tomatoes, 1 chilli, 3 spring onions, coriander, turmeric, rogan josh paste and ginger.
Basmati rice with cardamon pods, fine green beans and frozen garden peas.

That €25 food processor is paying dividends!

tmc86

Roast chicken with lemon, soy and honey. Sweet potato mash, roasted rainbow carrots with thyme, garden peas and stuffing and smoked bacon, all smothered with gravy!

tmc86

Last night I made another meal for the lads;

Appetiser- oven crisp pickle bites with a garlic sour cream dipping sauce



Starter- Buffalo Blasts (pastry, shredded chicken, franks hot sauce and red cheddar cheese) with a garlic sour cream dipping sauce & paprika



Main- homemade chicken goujon Katsu curry with basmati rice, prawn crackers an soy sauce



Desert- Peanut butter, chocolate banana bread with vanilla ice cream, flaked almonds and honey.

Chronic Button

I finally remembered to take a picture of my dinner!





Leftovers pie, made with leftover roast beef and roast lamb (from the freezer) and a delicious, rich home-made red wine gravy. With some oven wedges.

Toast4532

Chronic Button wrote: »

I finally remembered to take a picture of my dinner!

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Leftovers pie, made with leftover roast beef and roast lamb (from the freezer) and a delicious, rich home-made red wine gravy. With some oven wedges.

Have you a recipe for the pie? It looks scrumptious!

Dinner tonight is steak, chips and baby corn.

Baileys cheesecake for dessert. It tastes nice, although it doesn't look great. I'll make sure and check the tin next time to make sure it isn't bent....!

Dizzyblonde

Last night we had meatballs in tomato & basil sauce with tagliatelle.
Tonight we had Honey-ec's buttermilk chicken from the Cooking Club and it was really good - photo here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=82670828&postcount=23

Chronic Button

Toast4532 wrote: »

Have you a recipe for the pie? It looks scrumptious!

Sure. I made it up as I went along.

The bottom layer of pastry was home made shortcrust. I baked this blind for 20 mins at 160 before loading it with filling. The topping is shop-bought puff pastry.

For the filling, I had about 200g each of leftover roast lamb and roast beef.

I then sliced and fried a handful of mushrooms in a little butter and set aside.

For the gravy, I started by finely chopping 2 sticks of celery, 2 carrots, 2 onions and 2 cloves of garlic and sauteeing them in butter. Once soft, I stirred in a tablespoon of flour. I then added a pint of rich beef stock and a glass of red wine. To season, I added lots of black pepper, a little salt, a quarter teaspoon of thyme, a crumbled bay leaf and a tablespoon of tomato puree. Once all nicely bubbling, I popped it into the blender and blended until smooth.

I returned the gravy to the pan, and then added the meat and mushrooms. At this stage I wanted more veg, so I threw in a handful of frozen peas and another carrot, chopped.

Once thick and dark, I poured the filling it into the pre-baked pastry case. I topped it with puff pastry, stabbed it with a knife here and there, and brushed with beaten egg. I baked it with some par-boiled wedges for 30 mins until it was risen and golden.

Hope this helps.

homemadecider

Earlier in the week, had homemade beef burgers with feta salad.



Tonight we had very very slow-cooked beef stew with honey roasted parsnips. Super happy belly indeed.

Ricky91t

hardCopy wrote: »

Chicken stuffed with low fat mozzarella, pepper and mixed herbs. Mashed potato, mashed carrot and parsnip.

IMG

Thanks for this, I saw it and decided I'd give it a shot, came out perfectly!

Had some seasoned baked potatoes with it, very nice indeed.

Faith

Spicy Thai Chicken Noodle soup tonight, alá Mr. Magnolia's recipe in the Cooking Club. Been years since I last had it! I made it tonight with thai red curry paste, which was surprisingly mild. I couldn't really get any heat off it at all (which wasn't a bad thing, because I'm very intolerant to heat!).

Chuck Stone

I have to stop lurking this thread.

It makes me feel durty hungry.

tmc86

Tonight I made a sausage stew with chilli lamb sausages, onion, garlic, red and green chillis, sweet peppers, rainbow carrots, tinned cherry tomatoes, butter beans, purée, anchovy purée, s&p and paprika.

Served with crusty brown rolls and a dollop of sour cream!

LaChatteGitane

Last night we had chicory, rolled in ham with cheese. I had some homemade flax seed and almond bread to go with it.


I had 4 of these rolls


Today was my first fast day in a while.
Salmon burger, spiced up with chopped green chilli, grated fresh ginger, lime zest and juice, salt & pepper.
Salad with artichoke hearts, white asparagus spears and broccoli. Made a dressing from yoghurt, lime zest and juice, garlic powder, salt and pepper.

hairyprincess

Today was a fast day so I made a chicken salad drizzled with sweet chilli sauce. Salad consisted of lambs lettuce, rocket, yellow and red peppers, sweetcorn, celery, carrot and a breast of chicken.

MissFlitworth

Over the weekend my cooker decided that when I turn it on at the mains switch what I want it to do is gleefully blow a fuse on the fuseboard so while I get the magic that is "electricity" sorted out I'm down to meals you can microwave, boil in a kettle or toast. I have a baked bean sauce related food hang-up that I've been nursing since I was little & have no intention of giving up on after so many years illogical devotion so I am down to scrambled eggs and toast or soup & toast. Salads would be an option too but it is baltic out so hot food is my friend.

Tonight's dinner was cully & sully chicken soup dickied up with the addition of some toasted seeds and an unnecessary drizzle of olive oil with ryvita, philadelphia and a very ripe [read: mushy with black bits that needed serious avoiding] avocado. Tasty & low hassle and I ate the soup out of the tub so fork all washing up!

mickgotsick

Made chicken wings yesterday and had some leftovers today. So I took the meat off the wings and made a spicy rice type thing.

Toast4532

Home made pizza tonight using this recipe http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055979898

Although I was too tired and have no appetites (choked up with a cold atm) so instead I had chicken cuppa soup.

drquirky

Long time lurker and love checking out this thread for inspiration- that being said super sad to see it polluted by this fad diet "fast day" stuff. Perhaps that could be moved to the diet forum?

gjc

Last nights dinner

the beer revolu

drquirky wrote: »

Long time lurker and love checking out this thread for inspiration- that being said super sad to see it polluted by this fad diet "fast day" stuff. Perhaps that could be moved to the diet forum?

I started a thread commenting on the whole low/no carb fashion.
The title of this thread is "here's what I had for dinner last night" not "here's what I had for dinner, as approved by Dr quirky, last night".
Much as I question diets in general it doesn't stop some great and interesting meals being posted by dieters.

decisions

I love looking at the food from the "fad diets" it gives me loads of ideas on what to cook myself.

If you look at the stuff I've posted up here, it's all very low carb. Not because I was on a fad diet but because my doc was testing a theory. And as it turns out he was right about how I was eating was affecting my bloods and my overall health.

Odds are its still delicious food. And don't bash anything until you have tried it.

Tonight's dinner will be pork chop marinated in franks, with a pepper stuffed with scrambled egg, with ham, onion and bell pepper through it.

the beer revolu

One of the quickest and easiest dinners imaginable.
Tomato, chickpea and chorizo stew.
At its simplest just fry an onion and chuck in a half a chopped chorizo, a tin of tomatoes and a tin of chickpeas.
Mine had some celery, a red pepper, garlic and chilli flakes too.
Served with some rye sourdough.