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

Faith

We had pizza with chicken tossed in Frank's Hot Sauce and sliced pineapple. It worked better than I thought it would, and was really delicious.

This was dessert then

herisson

Making grilled steak, with oven baked potato cubes, steamed carrots and peppercorn sauce.

For desert i made little fruit tartlets earlier on.

Toast4532

Made a delicious creamy pork and chicken pasta dish tonight for dinner.

Finely chopped a red onion, some mushrooms, two garlic pork chops and two garlic chicken skewers.

Heat some olive oil in a pan, add in mushrooms and onion and cook for 1-2 mins, then put in the meat and cook for about 5-6 mins, stirring constantly, then put in cream (200ml) and simmer for 2-3 minutes. Sprinkled in some dried basil, dried parsley and black pepper just before I put the meat in the pan. Had it with tagliatelle (used four nests).

It was very garlicky for me though (and there was no fresh garlic in it), it's a very filling dish so you only need a small amount.

decisions

I had some salmon with garlic butter done in the oven and some sweet potato wedges.

FTA69

Homemade Pad Thai. Had to go to the Chinese shop to get the rice noodles and tamarind paste but it was well worth it. Beautiful simple dish that's packed full of flavour. Also added loads of chilli for that authentic face-burning goodness.

fussyonion

No pics, sorry-can't find my camera!

Chilli and garlic tiger prawns tossed with mange-tout, carrot batons, red onion, water chestnuts, sliced red and yellow pepper, petits pois, on a bed of fine egg noodles, sprinkled with finely sliced scallion and extra chillies.

hardCopy

Faith wrote: »

We had pizza with chicken tossed in Frank's Hot Sauce and sliced pineapple. It worked better than I thought it would, and was really delicious.

This was dessert then

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That picture of the muffins was so distracting I couldn't read your post. All I picked up was 'Frank's Hot Sauce', my brain could not compute how you would put Hot Sauce in your chocolate muffins!

the-ging

Moroccan Lamb with cous cous :-)

MissFlitworth

An omlette with garlic, chili, red pepper & soy sauce folded over steamed white fish. Was crying out for sriracha, weeping for it.

(burnt bits artfully hidden with feathery scallions)

Mrs Fox

mike65 wrote: »

Hi very simple (need to be for my ability!)

Each roll has the following basics

3 large sausages deskinned
diced 3 slices of onion
diced slices of tomato

with anything else that takes your fancy/needs using up.

For a bit more kick I suggest English mustard or Worcestershire Sauce.


Roll out the pastry (a bit longer than A4 and slightly narrower) squish the sausages together across the pastry about 2 inches from the top (in portrait format!) and throw on the tomato and onion, leave about an inch grace either side, break an egg beat it and put it around the edges of the pastry. Pat it all down, then roll it all over from the top so the pastry overlaps at the end. Then press the edges together and use the egg to brush the roll down to the lower sides, score the top three times so the air escapes as it heats up (otherwise you just get a burnt top). Cook gently at 100 C in a preheated top oven, after about 15 minutes turn up the heat to 150 for the last 5 (obviously checking is a good idea) but I find when you hear it start to bubble its ready! Hope that helps.

Thanks for this Mike. I made two Ginormous Sausage Rolls for dinner last night and they were delicious, and very filling! Served them with coleslaw and ballymaloe relish.


Monday night was also another sausage night -- Nigel Slater's awesome Bangers and Carrot mash.

Tonight we're having Chilli.

FTA69

Homemade lamb koftes with bulghur wheat.

Made the koftes by combining lamb mince with a little blended onion and garlic, paprika, cumin, ground coriander and cayenne pepper as well as a few tablespoons of finely chopped fresh coriander leaf. Cooked on a griddle pan.

The bulghur wheat then dressed with chopped tomato, lemon juice, pepper and scallions served; all served with a side of red cabbage. Really quick and delightfully tasty.

(Must start posting pictures!)

beertons

Mrs Fox wrote: »

Thanks for this Mike. I made two Ginormous Sausage Rolls for dinner last night and they were delicious, and very filling! Served them with coleslaw and ballymaloe relish.

Here's another one for you. Same recipe, minus the tomato, and crumble some black pudding over the sausage.


Had jamie olivers chicken pie with green beans and cauliflower tonight. No real kick out of it, might add chilli flakes next time.

Mrs Fox

beertons wrote: »

Here's another one for you. Same recipe, minus the tomato, and crumble some black pudding over the sausage.

Oh indeed I will. Thanks for the tip!

the beer revolu

I guess not really the weather for it but I had a hankering for it:
Irish stew with lots of pearl barley - had it with bread.

the beer revolu

Irish stew again tonight but this time accompanied by a dressed green salad of rocket, red mustard, wild garlic leaves and flowers and basil leaves.

AsianDub

Chinese barbecued pork on bok choy. Tofu and broccoli stir fry with shallots and mushrooms. Boiled rice.

Mrs Fox

Tonight we had Steamed Seabass with ginger, garlic & leek soy, with fluffy steamed rice.
Dessert was the Cooking Club's Apple Tart with whipped cream.

Loopy

the beer revolu wrote: »

I guess not really the weather for it but I had a hankering for it:
Irish stew with lots of pearl barley - had it with bread.

It's defo the best meal if you're in Dublin.
Baltic out.

Massive dinner last night that I couldn't finish.
Chicken breast stuffed with pesto, peppers and goats cheese wrapped in prosciutto, served with brown rice and a very hot Thai veg curry. Also had roasted parsnips and butternut squash with it. Eyes bigger than the belly.
Weird combo but it was savage.

gillapino

Havent posted here in a while! Here is a random curry i threw together the other night! I just used ingredients we had in the press! Some leftover steak from the night before, a tin of chopped tomatoes, ginger, garlic, chickpeas, a red pepper, a carrot, turmeric, garam masala and half a chill! I served it with boil in the bag rice, threw a teaspoon of turmeric into the pot while cooking it!

mike65

Vaguely Moroccan Chicken Couscous type thing - with tomatos, onion, fruits, spices and the like (couscous added later)



Also my first ever open top apple pie attempt with soft fruit underlay.

Seaneh

Pan fried chicken with mushroom and tarragon sauce and mashed potatoes.
Was pretty tasty.

GalwayGuy2

Chicken leg with rice and curry sauce. :P

_feedback_

I've had a rough couple of months.. A couple of horrible things happened which completely knocked out my cooking and eating. The most I managed when it came to cooking was the odd omelette and maybe a rasher sandwich.

This week I started to get back on track with some simple tasty things. The simplest was a bowl of rice krispies one evening but these are the rest

Slow cooked pork in a nice asiany marinade with spicy noodles



Jamie Oliver Piri Piri Chicken



This evening was Friday homemade pizza. The smell/taste of this was amazing

Dizzyblonde

Well _feedback_, it looks like you're back in the swing of things

Mrs Fox

Seaneh wrote: »

Pan fried chicken with mushroom and tarragon sauce and mashed potatoes.
Was pretty tasty.

I love these combinations. Comfort bliss.

FTA69

FTA69 wrote: »

Homemade Pad Thai. Had to go to the Chinese shop to get the rice noodles and tamarind paste but it was well worth it. Beautiful simple dish that's packed full of flavour. Also added loads of chilli for that authentic face-burning goodness.

I love pad thai, but have never made it myself - could you send me on the recipe if you get a chance?

kenco

Picked up some nice Monkfish on sale in SQ. Drizzled them with lemon juice and italian herbs, wrapped them up in panchetta and the fried them for 5minfollowed up with 10mins roasting.

The fish was great (must get more and freeze)


Served with boiled baby spuds seasoned which were super and boiled string beans which were not! Overcooked amater mistake!

Gloomtastic!

Making pizza last night.
'What topping do you want?' I asked the kids. 'Meatball please', they replied. Huh!!!!

Bought some Mini Frikadellen Meatballs in Aldi. So together with passata and grated mozzarella, I sliced the meatballs into four and spread generously on top of my Jamie Oliver pizza dough recipe.

Cooked on pizza stone for 6 minutes, then sprinkled with dried basil and olive oil.

One of the best pizzas ever!!!!

Mrs Fox

Just about to sit down to Barefoot Contessa's Tuscan Lemon Chicken, with champ, braised carrots and petit pois, graaaaaaavy and Bazmo's Stuffing Balls from the Cooking Club.

Musefan

I did a nice chicken in blackbean sauce. Marinaded the chicken before hand in some five spice. Fried it off with some orange & green peppers & baby mushrooms & added some blackbean sauce from Aldi. Cooked off some rice, let it cool, fried it with eggs, salt & pepper till it was golden and had some crispy bits. Mixed in some diced spring onion. Served with fresh broccoli. Made enough for two days.