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The 'Here's what I had for dinner last night' thread - Part I
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emeraldstar wrote: »It's not the works without gravy! (I hope that was added after?
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Great minds;-)
I reacted exactly the same way to the pic, then saw your post.0 -
fussyonion wrote: »I made the meatball and bean casserole this evening and I was really disappointed!
It's not your fault, Mrs Fox!
I made the meatballs with pork mince and I added quite a good mix of seasoning, even adding other herbs and spices.
I even added a pinch of chilli flakes to give it some lift, cooked it according to the recipe and served it with mash.
It was saucy enough, which was great, but it was a bit bland!
I thought the baked beans wouldn't overpower because of the tomatoes and other stuff, but the beans actually made it gloopy and overall it lacked flavour.
Like I said, not trying to insult you Mrs Fox, but just thought I'd share my thoughts.
I would try it again though, with beef mince and I would omit the beans.
When I do that, I will let you know how I get on!
Ah that's a real pity
Don't worry no offense taken I've never cooked with pork mince so I don't know what to expect from it. 0 -
'Ikea' Swedish meatballs with mash and some fried potato cubes. Not a huge Jamie Oliver fan at all, but he's done well here - the sauce is divine, and the meat mixture works brilliantly for burgers as well (though if you do so it will sweat a lot, so be ready to push down a lot with fork-tines and scrape fat off with a butter-knife). Word of advise though - chop the dill finer than I did; looked nice, but was a bit too noticeable in the texture.
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2010/apr/26/jamie-oliver-swedish-meatballs-recipe
- I use raspberry jam because I don't know where to find lingon berry; a girl I was seeing from Malmo told me it's probably closest (very sharp), and while it is nice, the breadcrumbs are not crucial. Make sure to add the flour in gradually by sieve of it just forms lumps on the side. Despite the recipe, moving to in a really small saucepan with an electric mixer is probably best because of this for the flour part.
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Pizza 'n' chips.
Homemade pizza with homemade tomato sauce, mozzarella, cherry tomatoes and barbeque pulled pork, served with homemade twice cooked chunky chips (trying out my new fryer
). We wouldn't normally have chips with pizza, but we ate late and I was STARVED so it was a nice treat. 0 -
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fussyonion wrote: »On Sunday we had a delicious roast chicken dinner with all the works!
Yes! The potato scoops! 0 -
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Cheers, actually genuinely did't know that (and B0jangles with the Lidl suggestion). Unfortunately I'm miles away from Ikea, but there are two Lidl's close to me.I'm pretty sure they sell it in Ikea.
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Also, something really easy to make for people on the run - cheap and healthy as well, and you might be able to get picky kids to eat it (I was a a shockingly picky eater as a kid but always loved this) is fried rice.
- A little under a fistful of rice per person
- A fistful of frozen mixed veg per person
- A half-fistful of frozen peas per person
- A few mushrooms per person (quartered)
- 1-2 rashers and 1/2 to a full chicken fillet per person
- 1-2 eggs per person (depending how eggy you want it); beaten together in a bowl
1. Boil the rice until it is ALMOST done (or just about done, basically do not overcook it), put it in a sieve/cauldron and run it under cold water until it has gone cold.
2. At the same time, grill the rashers (until slightly crispy) and fillets - cut the rashers into pieces about the size of your little fingernail, and shred the chicken fillet (hold it in place and tear is apart with the tines of a fork).
3. Get a wok or big pan on a high heat and fry the eggs for NO MORE than 10-ish seconds, stirring vigorously with 2 forks or spatulas. Immediately move to a plate (NOT a bowl or it will continue to cook in it's own heat). Don't worry it should look like... frankly... gloopy snot at this point.
4. In the same pan (do not clean off any little eggy bits left), fry frozen veg (NOT the peas); after a minute or so add the mushrooms, and remove into a bowl. Keep the oil/fats/etc in the bowl too.
5. Add 2-3 big glugs of oil and fry the rice until it goes a little translucent (again, do not clean the pan), then add the egg and keep stirring until the egg is fully cooked.
6. Add the meat, veg and peas... mix for 2 mins or so, and serve into bowls.
Once you get the knack of multi-tasking the initial bits of this (rice, meat, egg) you can get the whole thing done start-to-finish in just over 20 mins. You can add anything you want in as well to fit your taste. Also, do make sure to keep the fats and juices when cooking it - it does look a bit nasty when they're in the bowl with the veg and whatnot, but the rice absorbs all of it, and it's crucial to the flavour.
**Also works great for work lunches over the week - I think I clocked it to about 65-70c per meal when I did enough for 4 days, just 1-2 mins in the microwave and it's good to go. It even tastes pretty decent cold.
Don't have any pictures, but I'm staying in tonight (off the smokes since Monday, so avoiding the booze until the cravings subside!) so if I get around to making it, I'll post here (in the right size!
) - might do choc biscuit cake and/or cheesecake as well. 0 -
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A friend very kindly had myself and my boyfriend over for dinner last night. He cooked haggis. I lived in Scotland for years and I could only ever bring myself to try a single bite of haggis. I am not an offal eater! But of course, I wasn't going to refuse to eat it so I valiantly ate the entire thing. To be fair, haggis actually tastes lovely, but I simply could not dissociate the taste from the knowledge of what it is. I had to force every bite down, hiding it with as much other food as I could manage. My stomach is not right at all today after it either .
I can safely say I am not a haggis fan, and I'll continue my best efforts to avoid it for the rest of my life!0 -
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fussyonion wrote: »Oh can I have the recipe for this as it looks delicious?
Sure!
I hope it's good -it's just out of the oven so I haven't actually eaten any yet.
It's basically this recipe:
http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2008/06/jim-laheys-potato-pizza/
crossed with this one:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/bacon-potato-rosemary-and-fontina-pizza-recipe/index.html
As in, I made the dough from the first one, but used about 5-6 baby potatoes which I sliced reeealy thinly and soaked for a couple of hours before draining and salting to draw our excess water.
I then pre-fried some chopped bacon in about 1/2 tablespon of olive oil (3 ordinary smoked streaky rashers) with about half a very big onion plus 3 cloves of garlic.
Once that was done, I let it cool a bit, then stirred in the drained, dried potato slices.
This was put on top of the stretched out pizza base from the first recipe, then topped with a mixture of finely chopped maasdam and edam (from aldi) and fresh rosemary, plus some more olive oil.
I then baked it at about 220 degrees (fan) for about 25 minutes.
Edit: Just ate some* - this is seriously tasty stuff people.
*three slices, so ashamed.0 -
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