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Post by jenny on Aug 28, 2024 11:55:28 GMT
I have ravioli filled with butternut squash that I'm planning to make for dinner - quick and easy!
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Post by Bondee on Aug 28, 2024 17:40:31 GMT
Chicken and pasta salad, with tomato and basil sauce, diced red onion and a spinkling of grated mature Cheddar.
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Post by emily on Aug 29, 2024 5:47:21 GMT
I don't have much of a want for breakfast today, so will probably skip it
Dinner.. I don't know. Maybe I'll have some sausages or something
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Post by emily on Aug 29, 2024 5:48:27 GMT
I ordered a takeaway meal of chicken wings and chips. It was their smallest size, but still big enough for two meals, so tomorrow's dinner is also sorted! Only five wings, but this place uses the entire wing, so one of theirs equals two from most places. I want!
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Post by Bondee on Aug 29, 2024 8:21:14 GMT
Just had the usual bowl of porridge with a spoonful of peanut butter. I'm now eating an apple.
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Post by jenny on Aug 29, 2024 14:55:15 GMT
I'm planning a chickpea and feta cheese and onion thing with rice for supper - very very easy. You slice a red onion finely, drain, rinse and dry a can of chickpeas and spread them on a sheet pan (baking sheet). Drizzle with a tablespoonful of honey and scatter with about a quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper flakes (depending how hot you like things I guess. Cut about six ounces of feta into cubes and nestle them among the chickpeas and onion. Bake for about 30-35 minutes at about 400-425F and serve with rice. Very tasty. You can add extra veggies if you want. This makes slightly too much for the two of us and I often have leftovers for lunch the next day, but hungrier people than we are might well make that do for two people.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 1, 2024 19:31:23 GMT
Experimenting with fried corned beef, diced, fried, and served with rice and mixed veggies. A report will be available later....
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Post by suze on Sept 1, 2024 21:49:23 GMT
Use less cooking oil than you think you need. If you have a good non-stick frying pan, don't use any cooking oil.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 1, 2024 22:27:16 GMT
Yes, that swiftly became apparent. As to the taste, even with a healthy splosh of Jack Daniels barbecue sauce, it was........edible. Not unpleasant, and I will probably do it again, but I will add a great deal more flavouring next time. Definitely onion, because, imho, every savoury meal is better for onion, and probably some tomato and some chilli powder.
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Post by efros on Sept 1, 2024 22:57:46 GMT
About a pound of diced potatoes (1 cm dice) with diced onion and green/red peppers, some chopped garlic, sprinkling of salt and pepper and if you're into them chili flakes, fried on a low heat with a modest amount of oil. Keep a lid on the pan and turn the mix every 3 minutes or so. It'll take up to 15 minutes to get them to the degree of doneness required. Once the potatoes are cooked through add in your cubed corned beef and gently fold the mix occasionally to make sure the corned beef gets up to temperature without too much disintegration of the cubes. Once it's all at the required temp serve with buttered toast and a fried egg on top. Alternatively you can let it cool and smack it into pastry and either make a pie out of it, or pasties.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 2, 2024 8:07:56 GMT
Going back a few years, a friend and I stuffed ourselves with a quickly bunged together carb-stodge that was similar to efros' concoction in the above post. A couple of potatoes that were boiled then mashed, a diced onion, diced corned beef, and a tin of beans. We'd just returned from a 30ish mile bike ride so it didn't last long.
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Post by jenny on Sept 2, 2024 18:40:44 GMT
I defrosted a couple of burgers yesterday so I guess we're having burgers for dinner tonight.
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Post by jenny on Sept 3, 2024 20:25:33 GMT
And tonight I have a recipe that calls itself corn and tomato chowder. I'm guessing it's called that because it has potatoes in, but it contains no milk which in my books makes it a soup rather than a chowder. It sounds nice though, and I have all the ingredients in the fridge, so that will be it.
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Post by efros on Sept 3, 2024 22:39:27 GMT
Sounds like it might be taken from a New York Chowder which is tomato rather than milk/cream based.
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Post by jenny on Sept 4, 2024 19:36:46 GMT
I made this last night and it was indeed delicious. I cut the kernels off a couple of corn cobs. Then I sauteed a chopped onion until it was soft, with a couple of cloves of garlic, and put about three or four cups of chicken stock in with it (I guess one could use vegetable stock) and simmered it with a couple of diced potatoes and the corn cobs for ten minutes or so. I discarded the corn cobs at that point and added the corn kernels and a cup (maybe about ten) halved cherry tomatoes and simmered for another twenty minutes. At that point I adjusted the seasoning (didn't need salt as the chicken broth was already salty) and stirred in a heaped tablespoonful of chopped basil and a teaspoonful of lime juice. It makes a quite thick soup but was very tasty indeed.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 5, 2024 10:07:46 GMT
I'm really hungry this morning so I'm having a second breakfast of Marmite on toast.
edit to add: I just offered some Marmite to Coco. She recoiled in horror. I think it's safe to say which camp she falls into.
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Post by jenny on Sept 5, 2024 18:57:50 GMT
We have a pizza place not far from us, run by a Greek couple, that makes the best pizza crust ever - crispy and not too thick. Woodsman and I had Greek pizza (onions, tomatoes, olives and feta cheese) for lunch. Yum.
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Post by celebaelin on Sept 9, 2024 11:39:12 GMT
Lime and Coriander Chutney Poppadoms.
I might well have strawberries follow.
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Post by celebaelin on Sept 11, 2024 4:52:26 GMT
I actually did some prep. that's more long term than chopping or slicing but obvs. I've not eaten it yet.
I have turkey steaks (ish) marinating in rice vinegar, lemon juice, lime juice, pineapple, honey, garlic and tarragon.
I'll let you know how it works out but I've left spices out at this stage in the hope of it being quite fresh and tangy enough as is.
What I actually had was pork bangers and a couple of small minced turked burgers fried with rosemary and some buttered(ish) toast.
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Post by emily on Sept 13, 2024 21:45:24 GMT
Earlier I had southern fried chicken
Now I'm eating crisps
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Post by Bondee on Sept 13, 2024 21:54:59 GMT
What flavour?
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Post by efros on Sept 13, 2024 21:56:24 GMT
I had a Hawaiian pizza. With heavily smoked ham and fresh pineapple, with a BBQ sauce instead of tomato based one. Very tasty.
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Post by RLDavies on Sept 14, 2024 15:31:09 GMT
Efros, is there any way you can un-animate your avatar pic? The constant movement on screen is very distracting and giving me a headache.
I'm having breakfast and trying out something new, Jordan's "blueberry crumble" granola-type cereal. Not bad.
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Post by jenny on Sept 14, 2024 18:20:53 GMT
I made the corn and tomato chowder again yesterday and it was good. It will be a summer regular I think - probably best with fresh corn kernels taken from the cob rather than tinned or frozen corn, and fresh cherry or grape tomatoes in season.
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Post by celebaelin on Sept 15, 2024 9:37:44 GMT
The marinaded turkey was great although the pineapple barely registered. Really good with rice, mixed veg and soy.
Used the oil and rosemary from earlier for more sausages eaten in a 'buttered' wholemeal toast sandwich with strips of raw spring onion and rough sliced cheddar. Yum.
I had some crispy slices of fried cherizo as well but ate them seperately.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 15, 2024 9:56:27 GMT
Only just got up, but in due course I shall be eating apple porridge.
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Post by amanda on Sept 15, 2024 10:11:26 GMT
Due to a slight IBS attack, I cooked up another batch of plain pasta and had that with a bit of carrot and tomato.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 15, 2024 13:57:31 GMT
The apple porridge was entirely satisfactory, and I have just cooked up enough Thai beef curry to last me for several meals. I pretty much filled my largest saucepan with the stuff, so I expect at least 6 meals out of it, probably more...
Update a few hours later..
Eight portions now in the freezer.....
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Post by Bondee on Sept 15, 2024 17:24:40 GMT
Due to a slight IBS attack, I cooked up another batch of plain pasta and had that with a bit of carrot and tomato. I had the worst acid reflux I've ever had last night. Pasta was about all I could stomach today too. I had mine with a couple of handfuls of sweetcorn and peas and a bit of mayo.
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Post by jenny on Sept 15, 2024 19:30:31 GMT
I made my feta cheese, chickpea, onion and tomato thing again the other day, and added to it the kernels off a couple of corn cobs and a handful of sugar snap peas. We ate it with some cooked farro and it was yummy, and the addition of the corn kernels meant there was enough left over for another portion for the both of us. I reheated it for lunch today and we had it with toast. The feta cheese melted most delightfully into the rest, and it was as good reheated as fresh. I'll do that again - not sure it would work quite so well with canned or frozen corn but I'll give it a try (probably with canned that I can drain well as I think frozen would just that and leave too much liquid on the sheet pan).
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