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

neuro-praxis

dh0661 wrote: »

As in Coca Cola ?

Yes, inspired by one of Nigella's recipes from How To Eat.

Lia_lia

Tonight I had sh*t spaghetti that I made myself in a rush. It was horrible.

BUT yesterday was great. I cooked mussels and homemade chips for myself and my brother, really nice. I bloody love mussels. And then at work later that night the head chef gave me some barramundi/Vietnamese seasbass and sticky toffee pudding, yummy!

John Mason

goats cheese and apple puree

pea and asparagus risotto

cappuccino creme brulee

divine all of it

Fajitas!

Cooked for the folks this evening.

Chorizo, potato and tomato fritatta with rocket/cherry tomato salad and lemon olive oil.

Stuffed.

watna

Tonight I made cauliflower cheese, frozen potato croquettes and meatballs. We're moving house on Friday and I'm trying to cook the contents of the freezer so we don't have to move the food with us.

For tomorrow, I've taken out some tortilla wraps and mince and I'm going to whip up some kind of mince fajitas things.

There's a lot of meat in the freezer and I'd like to get through as much as possible so this week will be a meaty week!

superficies

Last night was proper 'end of the week; use up what's left' dinner so had butternut squash and red pepper soup, and then a kind of a casserole thing with turkey, chorizo, potatoes, green beans and onions oven cooked in tinned tomatoes and some veg stock. Yummy. Mocha chocolate banana muffin for dessert...also needed to use up some browning bananas!!

Edgedinblue

last night i had lasanga and homemade spicy wedges. today was lazy and got special fried rice from the chinese

JIZZLORD

made a burger from some left over steak mince.

added salt, pepper, tomato puree, wholegrain mustard, tobasco and worchesterhire sauce to the mince and mixed it all up.

served with mash, peas and gravy with fried onion and garlic in it.

best burger in a long time

Edgedinblue

Had turkey curry with veg and rice tonight. blah

Dizzyblonde

Pork chop, beans, mash and roasted onion.

MissFlitworth

This, and it was lovely. I swapped out half the courgettes for butternutsquash though because I was low on courgette and I wouldn't do that again because it turned out a small bit too sweet for my taste. Next time will just stick with the lovely recipe


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Edgedinblue

had mince with homemade enchilada sauce, shredded lettuce, grated cheese, sour cream all over nachos!

YUMMY!!!!!! :P

neuro-praxis

I made turkey burgers, and added lots of garlic, onions, herbs and spices in an attempt to improve on the blandness that sometimes comes with turkey.

I went to the gym 90 mins after dinner, only to have that damn burger repeat on me every 30 seconds while I was trying to run.

Never again!

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Just whipped up a bit of chilli there tonight, I'd like some comments on my recipe.

pound of mince, browned.
large onion and two cloves of garlic sweated off
four beef tomatos de-skinned and blended into a sauce
tomato puree
some red pepper (about 3/4s of one, the rest went for a sandwich)
two chillis chopped up fine
another chilli cut into small rings, seeds included
salt/pepper
worcester sauce
an oxo
some water
one square of 70% chocolate

this is sitting in a pot on the cooker, waiting to be eaten tomorrow, and some frozen for later consumption.

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I had kebabs tonight for dinner, the lidl kebab meat in pita breads with tomato, spinach, pepper, mayo and garlic from a garlic mill, with sweet chilli sauce. They were delish.

Sparks

The single best tip for good chilli in Dublin (in my humble opinion) is to go to Fallon and Byrnes, and in the mexican section (it's at the far end from the door, just around the corner from the bread, on one of those small shelf units) get a tin of Chipotle chillis in Adobo sauce. When frying off the mince, add about a level tablespoon of this per half-pound of mince.

(And heck, if you're in F&B, grab some fresh jalapenos as well But if you get only one thing, get the chipotles in adobo).



There are lots of other good things you can do, like using chunks of round steak instead of mince and cooking in a slow cooker, but the adobo is the best single thing in my cost/benefit analysis

Minder

Spaghetti with chilli, garlic, tuna and parsley in a lemon & olive oil dressing. Cheap & cheerful.

overmantle

Whatever was in the fridge (leftovers) fried up with some nice Korma sauce on top!

overmantle

I know. It's the lazy way out but it was delicious.

gucci

Des wrote: »

Just whipped up a bit of chilli there tonight, I'd like some comments on my recipe.

pound of mince, browned.
large onion and two cloves of garlic sweated off
four beef tomatos de-skinned and blended into a sauce
tomato puree
some red pepper (about 3/4s of one, the rest went for a sandwich)
two chillis chopped up fine
another chilli cut into small rings, seeds included
salt/pepper
worcester sauce
an oxo
some water
one square of 70% chocolate

this is sitting in a pot on the cooker, waiting to be eaten tomorrow, and some frozen for later consumption.

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Oh ya fecker! I know what I am having for dinner tomorrow night! Chili!!

Sounds like a similar recipe to what i would throw together myself (except the chocolate! but that will be going in tomorrow!) , although i always put in some kidney beans and dump in a good dolop of tobasco.

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gucci wrote: »

Oh ya fecker! I know what I am having for dinner tomorrow night! Chili!!

I'm having it tonight

gucci wrote: »

Sounds like a similar recipe to what i would throw together myself (except the chocolate! but that will be going in tomorrow!) , although i always put in some kidney beans and dump in a good dolop of tobasco.

Heh, there are kidney beans in mine too, I left them out there by mistake

Turned out I don't think it needs tabasco though, I haven't used the chilli seeds before, but they seem to have added a nice bit of heat, I'll know later on though.

Be careful when you are adding your chocolate that you don't add too much, it can make it quite stodgy and turn it very chocolatey, from which there is no return.

Add a bit at a time, and only use a very small amount.

Edgedinblue

having a salmon fillet, cream cheese, mushrooms, pasta all mixed together with a sprinkle of chilli powder! sounds horrible, but try it!!

neuro-praxis

My husband just bought Jamie Oliver's ministry of food in the hope of teaching himself how to cook, wahoo! Tonight he's making us chicken breasts wrapped in prosciutto, with asparagus, carrots and I think couscous.

Edgedinblue

had birdseye crispy chicken breast, homemade wedges, veg and birra curry sauce...... yeah im not as fancy as you lot lol

Mellor

Continuing the trend of eating only fresh food, tonight i'm going to have;

Chicken with dry cajun spice, baked
Steamed brocolli and brocollini shoots,
Roast "carrot" wedges (I don't eat potato) with balsamic roast onion

Never made the carrot things, its a it of an exp

The Sweeper

Made burritos last night - chili, guacamole, refried beans, cheese, tortilla wrap. Tonight is leftover chili with rice.

Minder

Have a fridge full of bits and pieces after an eventful couple of weeks. Trying to use stuff up before visiting the shops again. So last night we had a dish of baked aubergines scattered with roast hazelnuts, feta, dried cherries dressed with a garlic, chilli and lemon, oil emulsion.

Also had a salad of figs with green beans, feta and roast parsnips with a saba dressing.

For carbs I had a spicy sausage and fennel tortellini (Small portion).

the beer revolu

Last night was slow roast pork hocks with Calvados, mustard mash, wilted kale from the garden with a bottle of Normandy cider.
The skin came up as lovely crackling and the calvados gravy was yumm.
Ultimate comfort food!!:D

Cheap too. The two hocks would serve four people and cost €1.50 each

psycho-hope

lidl pizza with some chicken and sweet corn thrown on top, not in a cooking mood at the mo

Sparks

Home-made naan and the leftover chicken saag and a glass of budvar.
Scrummy.

claireycork

Had a friend over so Roasted some chicken legs sprinkled chopped chives, peas and carrots, Mash patatoes with spring onions butter and salt and good old gravy, im starving now thinking about it:rolleyes: