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

We're celebrating Chinese New Year today with some friends and family. 9 adults and 2 smallies.

There's one pescetarian coming for this meatfest so, he'll need looking after, too.

Saketinis (a kind of gin martini with sake and plum wine and a lychee)

Aromatic crispy duck pancakes with spiced damson sauce.

Lo mai gai (glutenous rice wrapped in lotus leaf with a savoury chicken, Chinese sausage, shrimp, mushroom and pork filling).

Cold beef tendon in soy, vinegar and chilli dressing.

Sticky, spicy slow cooked pork hock with rice and kai lan.

Stir fried prawns in coconut milk and coriander.

Bean curd skin and cucumber salad.

Maybe another prawn dish and some sort of tofu dish.

Sesame filled mochi and tinned lychees.

Tea.

Will try to remember some pics.

Wow, busy day ahead for you both tbr. Good luck to you!

I’m just doing Sweet & Sour HK-Style Chicken with rice.

Mrs G! is making Chinese Profiteroles which are profiteroles made on Chinese New Year weekend. 😉

Dessert: Sesame filled mochi balls with lychees (top pic)

Lo mai gai (next pics)

Pork hock

Beef tendon. Cucumber and bean curd salad.

Duck

There was a lot of food. Mrs beer's spicy Chinese prawns stole the show, I think!

Roast Sunday dinner.

what are the little "ball type" things? bacon wrapped stuffing?

Anyone having pancakes?

None for me as I'm busy tonight.

Yes, pancakes here for lunch too as it mid-term-break. Daughter wanted Nutella on hers, yuck.

Other half was having peanut butter on hers. I tried it on one of mine and while it wasn't bad, I think I'll stick to the classic butter, sugar, lemon and salt.

Chicken mushroom noodle soup.

Now that I've seen it I can't unsee that errant bit of chicken skin. Motherf*cker.

Same. This was actually roasted, but I'd (somehow) let it survive the purge long enough to be used here so I chopped it up and fired it in.

A plain baked potato with cheese here tonight, couldn’t be bothered after a crazy day.

The spinach garlic mushrooms in cream sauce sounds yummy .. fab with white rice too, I reckon?

Friday night steak with mushrooms, red onions and chipped potatoes.

Friday night pizza chorizo, mushroom, red pepper and red jalapeno and a few cold beers

Don’t know what it is, but I’m craving red meat a lot over the last few weeks. Must be a winter thing..

Stir fried honey & chilli beef with cabbage, mushrooms and rice noodles.

Counter top one Nal, gets up to 290c ish. Have it about 5 years with no complaints, handy in this weather

https://caterexpress.ie/product/electric-pizza-oven/

Did this, minus the courgettes (I hate courgettes) - and due to not having maple syrup, used some honey and some black treacle. I also decided there was no chance the final tray didn't need some olive oil, salt and pepper before going in the oven.

I think this falls in to "far too many changes to be considered to be the original recipe".

https://www.dunnesstoresgrocery.com/sm/delivery/rsid/258/recipes/simply-better-sausage-tray-bake

Anyway - after the alleged 25-30mins cooking time the sausages were grey and the spuds were rocks. Another 25 minutes on top of that, though; and the result was actually really quite good; and I'll probably do this again - maybe with a bit more veg actually. I think Neven was asked for a quick meal and fudged the numbers a little.

Also, poor cooking instructions aside, some of the so called recipes are really not recipes at all. More a case of buying Dunnes ingredients and cooking them. It's way beneath Nevin, imo.

Just seen another recipe where he puts a stuffed chicken breast wrapped in pancetta on top of raw, sliced potatoes and says cook until pancetta is crispy. The potatoes would be raw and the middle of the chicken perhaps underdone!

Chicken egg fried rice.

wow - looks fab - and again - looks like restaurant food