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

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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Lovely, thanks Dave. I have nearly all of those ingredients at hand.

    I do have palm sugar, which I think has a nice caramel type flavour, similar to brown sugar or jaggery. I have been meaning to go hunting for MSG in my local Chinese store. Thanks for the reminder. I don't know why people frown on the stuff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,504 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Palm sugar is on my list of "to get" ingredients too, next time I've over in Asia Market or ordering online. Helps that their brand is called "Cock Brand Palm Sugar".



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,492 ✭✭✭Ryath


    His and hers portions. Have to trim all the fatty bits of her rib eye! They're the best bits so quite happy to eat them!

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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,152 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    Bit of a Fakeaway 😀

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,504 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


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    Thought I'd bollocksed the beef by leaving it in to too high a temp, but it turned out well enough in the end. Nice aul mushroom sauce and some new potatoes to round it off.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 805 ✭✭✭mrmorgan


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    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,146 ✭✭✭sporina




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,504 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


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



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Too lazy to cook, and it's quite late, so a Tesco ready meal of lamb rogan josh it will be. Will definitely be better than my attempts at curry anyway :/



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,146 ✭✭✭sporina


    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



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Yes, this is how I love to eat too! But my fridge is tiny (too many condiments!), and I'm out of salad fare. Beetroot is nice, I buy the vacuum packed stuff, but a little goes a long way I find. It can be tricky cooking for one!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,146 ✭✭✭sporina


    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..



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Oh yeah, we do! We're lucky to have a big chest freezer. There are things down at the bottom that only future archeologists will find... I'm kinda bad these days with planning though. Just a habit I fall out of...

    Had blue cheese on knackebrod today, was quite filling, so the rogan josh will be in a while.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Recliner


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    Beef and pork meatballs, tomato and basil sauce and pasta. It was delicious..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,218 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Today I made lasagna - without the use of an oven. Because I still don't have a kitchen

    Sauce made the normal way, pasta pretty much fully boiled, otherwise assembled the normal way, microwaved at 600 for ~8 minutes and then grilled using the microwaves grill for ~5 minutes.

    Worked pretty much fine. Cheese didnt look exactly the same as done in an oven, but the malliard reaction happened and hence the texture/flavour you'd expect.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,504 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    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.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,844 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


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    Rough puff pie with a chicken and pea filling. Rocket and mustard salad. (fully enclosed, of course 😉)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,504 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,492 ✭✭✭Ryath


    Steak sandwich on Focaccia. Bread is from Aldi not sure if it's new or I hadn't seen it before. It has a shelf life of about a month so handy pantry backup. It's pretty decent for a long life bread. I always have Aldi's brioche burger buns in the press for the same reason.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Recliner




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,504 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    More or less this. It's pretty low effort, just takes a bit of time with the seaweed and whatnot.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,504 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    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.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,146 ✭✭✭sporina


    looks good - but would love to have seen the filling also..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,844 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    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.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Currently pimping Tesco's Bombay potatoes with red lentils and ginger, to go with naan. As close as I will get to cooking today.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,411 ✭✭✭✭woodchuck


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



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Good stuff @woodchuck. I like tuna pasta, but thinking of trying canned crab in tomato sauce for a change. Fresh crab is so expensive, so maybe canned might be a choice?

    I've never some across a canned salmon that I like, and it's almost as pricey as the fresh salmon.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,082 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,146 ✭✭✭sporina


    i really don't like any tinned fish warmed up... v pungent.. fresh fish is a different story..



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