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

Last two days. Salad was nice on such a hot day. Simple risotto to use up the squash that was in the fridge.

Finally getting the hang of the rice in the rice cooker, fire in some garlic and ginger and maybe some miso and it flavours the rice something lovely. Salmon in a soy/shaoxing/chilli marinade, cooked the brocolli in it too. Peanut rayu on the rice.

Did the Sri Lankan Dhal and devilled paneer curry from a Times recipe, which is paywalled but they put the paneer up elsewhere at least

Rather hard to do with just a two ring burner and the kitchen table as a work surface, but worked well.

It was just a quick, throw together what's in the fridge kind of sauce.

I used :

1 onion, chopped

3 cloves of garlic, chopped

1 red pepper, diced finely

1/2 tin of tomatoes

2 tbsp of ajvar

2 wedges of cream cheese

1 stock cube

I fried the onion and pepper on a low heat to soften them for ca 1-0 minutes. Then add the other ingredients and simmer until the sauce is nicely thickened.

Double Quarter pounder from fx Buckley. Nowhere near as nice as the rib eye cap burgers I get from my local butchers... but nice all the same

Sauteed sliced cabbage and diced carrot. In a lot of butter.

hope it was ok

thing I love about "summer" is that I can get away with cooking less.. love salads and crave em when its warm.. fav ingredient is beetroot.. love the stuff..

have the fridge stocked with all kinds of salad-y stuff.. so can just bung em together in the eve,.. and a cooked chicken goes a long way

mayb look into batch cooking? we do this at the weekend.. food for mon/tues.. and or freeze some.. v handy - and good for ESB bills too..

More of a starter, but Japanese mushroom soup. Shimenji and shiitake mushrooms with some silken tofu in a dashi/miso/soy broth. Nice and light.

Sesame tuna. Teriaki/soy/miso sauce/glaze/whatever. Steamed broccoli.

My partner is away (you can tell) and I've a load of food to use up by Thursday so I'm trying to plough through as much of it as I can. Scallops, cauliflower, pea puree, black pudding, apple sticks, all pretentioused up. Pity the scallops were so small, but sure what can you do.

The filling didn't look great as it had been previously frozen, so the peas lost their bright green colour. Tasted delicious but didn't look it. It was a veloute type sauce (bechamel with stock instead of milk) with mostly chicken thigh meat and peas.

I took the filling out of the freezer by accident, thinking it was parsley sauce to go with corned beef we were having on Friday. Had some lard in the fridge, so a chicken pie it was for Saturday.

I made sausage rolls from the leftover pastry. Wasn't sure if it would work with rough puff but they were delicious. The pastry being in the fridge overnight helped me roll it out thin enough, I suspect. I used Tesco finest Irish sausages squeezed out of their skin and put a smear on dijon mustard inside. Nicest sausage rolls I've eaten.

Fish pasta in a tomato sauce, with a side of greens

Was never a huge fan of tuna in anything but tuna pasta with cinnamon is something that I can handle.

I actually use fresh fish for the pasta (a fish pie mix). I never even thought of using tinned! There's a tinned Salmon in Lidl that I like cold in wraps, wonder what it would be like in a hot dish though...

@TheKBizzle would love to see the filling?

Made franchesinhas today. Albeit Irishised - just conventional sausages, no bacon fat in the sauce, dash of whiskey rather than port in the sauce.

Tomato sauce could have been a bit thinner and more spicy; steak should have been minute steak and not anything thicker/posher, and I ran out of cheese somehow. But otherwise it worked OK.