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The 'Here's what I had for dinner last night' thread - Part I
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Ha, cheers!^^^ My oh my look at that egg yolk!:eek: Must be darn delicious!
You should try it, it's not actually too tricky (I'm a disaster at getting a soft boiled egg done right, to be honest). The pancake bit before is dead easy, then you just pop it in the oven on a low heat while you do the rest. You just put the eggs in the ladel, and VERY carefully and put them into the water and vinegar (let the ladel rest until the egg is maybe 10% white) - about 3 mins medium/high (I use the hottest ring on 4, out of six settings) and you're good to do. Just dab them with some kitchen paper. you can get away with gently squeezing them to get a feel on how solid the inside is.
Hollandaise is finnicky, but not too tough. Per person, get 50g of butter into a bowl, and melt it on low heat using a double boiler (doesn't have to be fancy, I use a cereal bowl over a tiny pot - just make sure the water doesn't touch the bottom).
In a separate bowl again per person get 2 egg yolks, 2.5tbsp lemon juice and 1 tbsp vinegar (pref. white wine) and mix together - add a TINY bit of salt and pepper. A tablespoon at a time, take the melted butter and stir it into this mix until about a quarter of the butter is mixed, then pour it all back into the double boiler and -this is key- stir more or less continuously, and make sure to not miss ANY parts of the side/bottom of the boiler. It's egg yolk, so overcooking it just the tiniest bit can cause it to curdle* - the egg yolks become solid, which you don't want. Also use a fork for this, it is better at getting to all the sides/corners, and when the sauce starts sticking between the tines, that's when it's just about done. Takes about 10-15 minutes total depending on volume.
*There is a small chance to salvage it if you overcook. Add a tsp of water per serving (no more than two or the sauce will completely split and become useless), and sometimes if it looks to have got too thick, pouring it into a cold bowl, stirring the steam out and leaving it to cool can bring it back to 'decent' if not perfect.
Then sprinkle a tiny bit of parsley on top when it's all done to look like a pretentious git. :pac:
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Might sound daunting, but it's not - I'm just crap at explaining things
. Experiment on the poached eggs when you're just doing them for eggs on toast of something. Took me about 3-5 trial runs to get the timing right, but it only takes 3-4 minutes so there's no big commitment lost or anything. Plus when you get the knack of it with the ladel, if you ever find youself making a lot of eggs for some reason (big family breakfast?) it's the easiest and quickest way to cook them all together, and actually come out looking fancy like you put extra effort in at the end of it all 
. Mess around and see if you can get the hollandaise done when you're cooking other stuff - it goes with pretty much anything. Great on steak, chicken and green veg in particular. Along with that pesto/cream sauce someone posted a few pages back, I could probably drink a pint of the stuff and come back for more. 0 -
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Really rich beef casserole/stew.
I have never been lucky cooking anything with stewing beef in it because I always end up taking it out of the oven too early so the meat's as tough as old boots, but I was delighted tonight because it turned out lovely!
The meat was tender and tasty and the whole thing was lovely.
I boiled some baby potatoes separately and just added them to the finished dish.
Lovely and perfect on such a cold day
Sorry it looks a bit messy.
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Chicken, steak, green veg... it probably goes with more stuff than it doesn't.IvyTheTerrible wrote: »Fish! 0 -
Myself and himself just spent the last 2.5 hours preparing 24 days' dinners in advance for the slow cooker. All going into the freezer now, then the bag can be put into the fridge to defrost the night before we want it, then chucked into the slow cooker in the morning.
We made massaman chicken curry, bolognaise, lamb stew, butternut squash & chickpea curry, chorizo & bean stew and teriyaki chicken. Absolutely knackered now but our freezer is full and we are happy!
There's my slow cooker in the corner - got it as a gift last month and am already smitten. Great addition to the kitchen.
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