Here's What I Had For Dinner - Part III - Don't quote pics!

StripedBoxers

Last night was cottage pie.

Tonight is Lamb stew that I made in the slow cooker.

It is possibly the best Lamb stew I've made, I will be doing it in the slow cooker in future, that is for sure. It's just fabulous. I've never been this pleased with anything I have made before.

tickingclock

Pasta bake with everything but the kitchen sink beef mince, tinned and fresh tomatoes, chillis, ginger, garlic, onions, mushrooms, peppers, courgettes and lots of oregano and grated cheese on top.

Smeggy

Dipping my toe into cauliflower pizza base.. Needs more cheese but still good

(not literally)

Alf Stewart.

Marinated chicken, roasted in the oven served up with a side of creamy mash with gravy , and some green beans.

Everyone enjoyed.

Mystery Egg

Pie and chips.

Home made mini beef and red wine pies with real chips and lashings of gravy. Ridic.

Whispered

Those potatoes look great.

Pasta salad for me this evening. Lazy lazy made a greek salad, threw in some hot pasta, olive oil, garlic and oregano, squeezed a lemon and stirred. Was very nice and ridiculously quick.

pew

Garlic roasties with minute steak, mushrooms and onions with a pepper corn sauce

Loveinapril

Sweet chilli salmon with stirfried noodles and veg.

Grandeeod

Chicken hotpot from scratch. I always add red and green peppers to it for extra taste, but the usual onions, carrots and cubed potatoes were there. Had it with some really big roast spuds.

StripedBoxers

Last night was a Chinese and tonight was roast chicken, veg, spuds and gravy.

Alf Stewart.

Weather such as today, a very tasty salad made with rocket, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, scallions, peppers, feta, beetroot and a boiled egg.

Home made dressing of soy sauce - honey and balsamic.

Eaten alfresco obviously.

Johnnyhpipe

Marinated angus beef done over charcoal with rice (dyed with turmeric) guacamole and sour cream.

beertons

Had a pork loin defrosted from yesterday, so it was a soy sauce and wok job, sliced 1cm apart. What next. Green and red pepper, 2 carrots, 2 onions, found a sweet and hot chilli, all sliced finely.

Found a can of black beans, a quick Google got me a black bean sauce. Garlic, ginger and scallions chopped and fried. B beans rinsed, very salty, and added with 2tbsp rice wine vinegar and same of soy. Bit of sugar, cup of chicken sock. Cook off, then add flour to thicken it. Before add to wok, grate some orange rind into it.

I did the pork first, removed, then veg. Did the sauce in another pan, and added everything when veg was done.

Amazing.

No rice or noodles needed, imo, as it's all veg.

daisybelle2008

StripedBoxers wrote: »

Last night was cottage pie.

Tonight is Lamb stew that I made in the slow cooker.

It is possibly the best Lamb stew I've made, I will be doing it in the slow cooker in future, that is for sure. It's just fabulous. I've never been this pleased with anything I have made before.

Any chance of the recipe?

StripedBoxers

daisybelle2008 wrote: »

Any chance of the recipe?

For the lamb stew? I will post it up tomorrow for you

daisybelle2008

StripedBoxers wrote: »

For the lamb stew? I will post it up tomorrow for you

Thanks StripedBoxers.

Miaireland

Made roast beef with all the trimmings last night. By the time it was ready I wasn't hungry but everyone else enjoyed it. My appetite is gone to the dogs these days.

Dizzyblonde

Last night we had roast chicken with garlic, ginger, soy, honey and five spice. With baked potatoes and corn on the cob.

Mystery Egg

IKEA dinner! Meatballs, chips, cream sauce and lingonberry jam. Elderflower cordial to drink, and blueberry cheesecake for dessert. Followed by an hour or two of rampant materialism buying cushions, hangers, laundry baskets and lots of lovely bits.

brinty

BBQ for two nights running
Gotta make the most of it while we can
Got his memade burgers (Texas and jack Daniels style) Sausages and chicken pieces and all were hmmmmmmm

StripedBoxers

daisybelle2008 wrote: »

Thanks StripedBoxers.

Sorry for the delay, I will have it up tonight.

StripedBoxers

Here is the recipe, sorry for the delay.

Lamb Stew

Ingredients

Diced Lamb
Red Onion – 2
Carrots – 3-5
Button Mushrooms – 1 pack
Potatoes – 3-6 medium
Garlic – 3-5 cloves
Chopped tomatoes – 1 tin –
Red wine – 2-3 glasses
Pearl Barely – 1 handful
Parsley, thyme, basil (I use all dried, but you can use fresh) – teaspoon of each
Black pepper – just a pinch
Beef stock pot – 1
Bisto – optional – add as much or little as needed

1. Chop the carrots, potatoes, onions into bite sized chunks. Drain the chopped tomatoes, of if you prefer, you can use the juice, I find it bitter so don’t use it.
2. Brown the meat in a pan with the onions, garlic cloves, pepper and herbs.
3. Add everything into the saucepan with the meat, veg, garlic, mushrooms (I leave them whole, but you can chop/slice them), red wine, pearl barley and the beef stock pot. I don’t dissolve this in water, but you could if you wanted to.
4. Cook everything for about an hour on a low-medium heat with the lid off to let it all thicken up. If you want to add bisto, now is the time to add it.
5. If you are adding bisto keep stirring everything in the saucepan for a good 10 minutes or until you have the desired consistency.
6. When the stew has reached the desired consistency transfer everything into the slow cooker and put on a medium heat for 6-8 hours.

The meat will fall apart, everything will have a rich flavour. It’s beautiful, goes well with mash or baked potatoes too. I make enough that I can freeze some portions and find with this amount I would get about 7-9 small portions that can be frozen for up to three months.

It defrosts really well too – but potatoes (in my experience) don’t freeze well at all, so if you are freezing any, don’t freeze potatoes.

*The reason I cook it in the pot first is because I was undergoing chemotherapy so all meat (for me) had to be cooked in a pan before slow cooking.

daisybelle2008

Thanks for the recipe,well worth the wait! Looking forward to trying it.

Dial Hard

Last night: Cajun turkey burgers with yet more of the rough pickle, quinoa-stuffed roasted peppers and feta dip (which along with the rough pickle may be my new favourite thing).



Night before: Marinated hake with Cajun baby potatoes, lemon sauce and baby spinach.



And the night before: coconut chicken wth katsu curry sauce. My sister hasn't stopped talking about this since.

Whispered

Am I reading wrong - the white sauce is feta dip? Sounds AMAZING!

We are having a lazy evening with M&S €14 meal. Goats cheese lattice with ratatouille, I got potato rosti to go with it, tiramisu for dessert and the wine that comes as part of the deal is fab. I can feel my arteries protesting!

Dial Hard

Whispered wrote:

Am I reading wrong - the white sauce is feta dip? Sounds AMAZING!

Yep, that's the feta dip and it's SO good. 100g feta, 200ml Greek yoghurt, 50ml olive oil, juice of a lemon and a good pinch of black pepper, all whizzed in the food processor. Be warned, it's highly addictive.

Surreptitious

Those meals look unreal. It looks like clean cooking if that makes any sense.

StripedBoxers

Last night was steak and chips washed down with a few glasses of red wine to celebrate finishing chemo Looking forward to having a rare steak now Oh god I can't wait

Tonight was spicy chicken wings, absolutely delicious. Can't wait to have more tomorrow

daisybelle2008 wrote: »

Thanks for the recipe,well worth the wait! Looking forward to trying it.

You're more than welcome, let me know what you think of it, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Dizzyblonde

StripedBoxers wrote: »

Last night was steak and chips washed down with a few glasses of red wine to celebrate finishing chemo Looking forward to having a rare steak now Oh god I can't wait

Tonight was spicy chicken wings, absolutely delicious. Can't wait to have more tomorrow

You're more than welcome, let me know what you think of it, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Congratulations SB! Onwards and upwards now

StripedBoxers

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

Congratulations SB! Onwards and upwards now

Thank you so much, I've the hardest part done now, which is amazing, I'm on the road to beating my cancer, and that's the main thing