The 'Here's what I had for dinner last night' thread - Part II - Don't quote pics!

Mrs Fox

Chicken salad with tomato and beetroot, gem lettuce, walnuts and sprouts.

RentDayBlues

Mrs Fox wrote: »

Chicken salad with tomato and beetroot, gem lettuce, walnuts and sprouts

That looks delicious!

Gloomtastic!

Was reminded of MissF's talk of drive-thru's this evening as I was driving home. Stopped off at Bunsen on Wexford St. to see if their burgers are up to the hype.

Well maybe not drive-thru, more like pull into the side, walk down the street to a packed restaurant, order, pay and told to come back in 20 minutes. Had time to walk back up the street, go into an empty Eddie Rockets, order a chocolate malt to go, leave it in the car then go and pick up my order.

Fries were good, burger was fine. Should have come with napkins as the first bite dripped all down my top!



Still, had the pleasure of driving down Dame Street to witness all the celebrations on this historic day, hairs on the back of my neck stuff. Good day to be Irish!!!

beertons

Pulled pork wraps. And a salad of blanched broccoli, feta cheese cubed and roasted hazelnuts. So full. Round 2 tomorrow.

J Mysterio

Looks a pretty good burger to me!

Gloomtastic!

J Mysterio wrote: »

Looks a pretty good burger to me!

I love the simplicity of the menu.

http://www.bunsen.ie/menus/

Gongoozler

We made our own satay sauce this evening, with peanut butter, tamarind and coconut milk. It was good to begin with, but after a while I found it too sticky, or something, to eat. Couldn't finish it. Will work on an improvement.

So we filled up on a homemade sangria, with a fruity beaujolais, mixed with jp chenets peach wine, and nectarines and strawberries. That was very nice. will be experimenting with that again.

Minder

http://www.saveur.com/article/recipes/gado-gado-indonesian-vegetable-salad-with-peanut-dressing

I've always found James Oseland's recipe for peanut sauce to be very good. Add more water if it's too thick and don't omit the shrimp paste no matter how funky it smells.

Dinner last night was roast chicken rubbed with sambal (Mrs Fox sambal from the Random Recipe Thread). Also had steamed choi sum and cheong fun rice noodle rolls with a chilli and soy sauce.

Mrs Fox

Minder wrote: »

http://www.saveur.com/article/recipes/gado-gado-indonesian-vegetable-salad-with-peanut-dressing

Dinner last night was roast chicken rubbed with sambal (Mrs Fox sambal from the Random Recipe Thread). Also had steamed choi sum and cheong fun rice noodle rolls with a chilli and soy sauce.

Awww shucks you still have them, or was that a new batch?
I'm thinking of playing around with it in my next batch, maybe adding some dried shrimps to add more savoury (and tastiness, of course).

Minder

Same batch of sambal - I had about 2 pints from the first batch. Its very good on the chicken but tends to get very dark if I leave the bird uncovered for the whole cooking time.

Smidge

Ate in PittBros on Georges St yesterday.
Was disappointed
It wasn't very nice at all but at least I got stuck right in the heart of party central for it :D

Overflow

the beer revolu wrote: »

Rare flat iron steaks, grilled tomatoes, fried potatoes, red onion jam, gremolata and lightly steamed york cabbage.

(a very strange cabbage from Lidl - I've never come across a cabbage more like iceberg lettuce, we had it almost raw)

Was it Nappa Cabbage ?

the beer revolu

Overflow wrote: »

Was it Nappa Cabbage ?

No. York cabbage.

StripedBoxers

Was out for dinner last night, for starters two of us had crispy potato skins with crispy bacon and garlic mayo, the others had mushrooms with cream cheese and garlic in a batter.

For mains three of us had steaks: fillet, sirloin and rib eye. Served with chips, potatoes, salad, pepper sauce, and garlic sauce. Our other diner had a cajun chicken burger.

All washed down with an Argentinian Malbec.

L'prof

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Was reminded of MissF's talk of drive-thru's this evening as I was driving home. Stopped off at Bunsen on Wexford St. to see if their burgers are up to the hype.

Well maybe not drive-thru, more like pull into the side, walk down the street to a packed restaurant, order, pay and told to come back in 20 minutes. Had time to walk back up the street, go into an empty Eddie Rockets, order a chocolate malt to go, leave it in the car then go and pick up my order.

Fries were good, burger was fine. Should have come with napkins as the first bite dripped all down my top!

I think Bunsen burgers are so tasty. They are rather messy though, especially if you go for the double burger.

Smidge wrote: »

Ate in PittBros on Georges St yesterday.
Was disappointed
It wasn't very nice at all but at least I got stuck right in the heart of party central for it :D

Really? I really enjoyed Pitt Bros when I went there.

cee_jay

Roast chicken in a chilli marinade. Served with roasted peppers stuffed with cous cous with chilli flakes, red onion, pine nuts and feta cheese, and mangetout.

ibarelycare

Beef Bengali curry with chickpeas.

I got these curry kits in Supervalu. They come with a paste, spices (this one had bay leaf, cardamom, dried chilli and nigella seeds) and curry sauce. You marinade the meat in the paste, then add the spices to hot oil for a few seconds before adding the meat. I moved it to the slow cooker then and added chickpeas, extra chilli and some cream towards the end cos I like my curries quite saucy. Very impressed!

SarahBeep!

katydid wrote: »

I made Toad in the Hole for the first time. Underwhelming. It wasn't cooked fully, a bit mushy in the middle, but that wasn't the thing. It was just ok. I used the Jamie Oliver recipe, with a red onion and balsamic "gravy". I should have taken a pic.

I always use the Hairy Bikers recipe from their Mum's know best book.

http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/396703/Hairy-Bikers--Yorkshire-pudding

Leave it to sit for a bit, over night if I can! Then pour over nommy sausages.

Shenshen

I had a long day today - went for an hour's cycle, then for a good long swim. Then my hubby got home and suggested going for a walk as the weather was so nice, so off we went for a 2 hour walk.

Coming home I was positively ravenous, and really fancied falafel.

So out came the chickpeas, and while the little parcels of sheer yum were frying away, I made some spicy houmous and a nice bowl of tsatsiki to go with them.
Stuffed it all into toasted pittas, along with chopped gem lettuce, cucumber and sliced onion. Bit of sriracha on top, for extra spice.
Washed down by cold shandy.

They looked too messy for pictures, though, and so do I now.

StripedBoxers

Tonight I dined alone so I had reheated savoury mince with brown rice.

Delicious, filling, quick and with minimal effort.

katydid

SarahBeep! wrote: »

I always use the Hairy Bikers recipe from their Mum's know best book.

http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/396703/Hairy-Bikers--Yorkshire-pudding

Leave it to sit for a bit, over night if I can! Then pour over nommy sausages.

Thanks. I'll give it a go next time

Mrs Fox

Lamb seekh kebab, feta salad and sweet potato fries.

J Mysterio

Bam! Nice

mardybumbum

I bought a Tajine today so made a nice beef dish.

fussyonion

Cod in a tomato/onion/basil/garlic/oregano sauce, with peas and red and green peppers.
Served with salad potatoes and green beans.

Smidge

L'prof wrote: »

I think Bunsen burgers are so tasty. They are rather messy though, especially if you go for the double burger.



Really? I really enjoyed Pitt Bros when I went there.

Yeah, I was gutted as I had read great reviews(and someone here said the food was fab).
The mac and cheese wasn't cheesy(was just like a white sauce). Chicken was a bit dry and tasteless. Chips were weird(soggy but underdone at the same time).
OH food wasn't great either.
Gutted:(

fussyonion

I wish I liked feta.

I bought some last week and roughly chopped it before throwing it on a salad.
I didn't like it.
It was overly salty and overly....I don't know...just not very cheesy, but it was *something*.
Too overwhelming, I think.

L'prof

Smidge wrote: »

Yeah, I was gutted as I had read great reviews(and someone here said the food was fab).
The mac and cheese wasn't cheesy(was just like a white sauce). Chicken was a bit dry and tasteless. Chips were weird(soggy but underdone at the same time).
OH food wasn't great either.
Gutted:(

Ok, I didn't have any of those when I went. I had Brisket & fries and it was delish. Free self serve cone afterwards with the lunch offer was most satisfying

Mrs Fox

fussyonion wrote: »

I wish I liked feta.

I bought some last week and roughly chopped it before throwing it on a salad.
I didn't like it.
It was overly salty and overly....I don't know...just not very cheesy, but it was *something*.
Too overwhelming, I think.

It's more of a fermenty taste than cheesy. Probably can't convince you but they're gorgeous in omelette.

Minder

Vietnamese roast chicken with lemongrass, stir fried rice, Vietnamese fresh spring rolls with nuoc cham.