Re: whats on the menu

by polgara 17th April 2012, 6:19 pm

Spaghetti in tom sauce with onions & mushrooms & smoked sausage. Very yummy.

by polgara 18th April 2012, 6:44 pm

Found 2 pots in the freezer, mixed them together & made a stew which turned out rather tasty.

by polgara 20th April 2012, 2:56 pm

Not actually on the menu, but a partial freezer clearout & I have the slow cooker cooking chicken & bacon bones ready to make a veggie soup.

by polgara 25th April 2012, 10:19 pm

Toad in the Hole, which was very tasty. chef2

by Jaded Green 25th April 2012, 10:24 pm

We were home late an tired but have a lot of vegetables - Abel and Cole delivered yesterday and my dad had some excess so we HAD to eat veg for supper although cooking a bowl of pasta and stirring in a jar of pesto and some grated Parmesan seemed easiest.

So we still cooked the pasta but stir fried a variety of veg, added a little soy sauce and very nice it was too.

by GB 28th April 2012, 12:44 am

Chicken rice with brocoli cooked in and soy sauce dribbled over upon serving. Ate too much again Embarassed

by GB 28th April 2012, 12:45 am

polgara wrote:Not actually on the menu, but a partial freezer clearout & I have the slow cooker cooking chicken & bacon bones ready to make a veggie soup.

That sounds a rather meaty veg soup Pol Shocked

by Jaded Green 28th April 2012, 10:11 am

Caulflower soup bubbling on the hob for lunch. Part of my dad's excess vegetable load.

We've got some beetroot and are debating making a chcolate cake

by polgara 28th April 2012, 10:25 am

Ah the bones were just for the stock, cooked till the stock had really reduced & put in the fridge to take the fat off, the stock was just about solid, but it did make a lovely veggie soup.

by GB 28th April 2012, 3:31 pm

polgara wrote:Ah the bones were just for the stock, cooked till the stock had really reduced & put in the fridge to take the fat off, the stock was just about solid, but it did make a lovely veggie soup.

I did know what it was for, I do the same here but I just couldnt resist.

Slow roasted very lean lamb for dinner today.

by Wilhelm Von Rhomboid 28th April 2012, 3:40 pm

I am having a bit of a freezer clearout as well. Found 16kg of pork mince which I had forgotten about so am making that into avrious types of salami. Made some deangerous venison salami with chipotles this morning and a batch of cumberland sausage for a friend out of the forelegs of his pig. Also put another couple of haunches of venison into drycure for smoking next week, this time with a caraway and juniper cure, and set up some more jowls for guanciale and rinsed the last batch of guanciale to go in the smoker for a couple of days.
Still need to creat more freezer space. We have 5 freezers now Embarassed

and not an inch of space in any of them. We clearly need to eat more meat.

by Chilli-head 28th April 2012, 9:40 pm

Wilhelm Von Rhomboid wrote:Made some deangerous venison salami with chipotles this morning

Sounds super. I LIKE chipotles dribble

by Chilli-head 1st May 2012, 10:01 am

And on the subject of chipotles - last night it was Albóndigas a la Mexicana - this a link to the Cool Chile company's recipe. I used pork for my meatballs, which had a nice texture.

by Kristy lee 4th May 2012, 12:36 am

I'm very pleased that alllll week i've only needed to buy some apples for the kids and bread (i've been to busy to bake) the rest of our meals hv come from the garden yay.....

by Wilhelm Von Rhomboid 4th May 2012, 5:43 pm

Put a whole loin of Pork and two wild ducks, cured overnight in Rhombo-rub, into the hot smoker this morning. 10 hours later they are nearing perfection.

by polgara 12th May 2012, 10:42 am

Today will be cottage pie, put in the freezer last Saturday so I could concentrate on recovering from the trip.

by Dandelion 12th May 2012, 6:32 pm

Parsnip and apple soup (from a BBC recipe I found - Mr D doesn't like curry, so I wanted a recipe which wasn't spicy.) I found two little homemade loaves in the freezer which Mr D had made ages ago so we had those too.

by polgara 15th May 2012, 2:21 pm

Leftover roast meat in a a brown sauce topped up with meat juice, mas & veg.
Going to find a bacon bone & sort out a pea & ham soup I think. chef2

by polgara 16th May 2012, 10:09 am

Pea & ham soup in slow cooker for tea with a bacon butty.

Toad in the hole, roasties & baked beans for lunch with a tomato gravy.

Cheap toms to cook off ready to blitz & freeze.

by polgara 17th May 2012, 9:42 am

Morrisons had Brains Faggots on offer, so that is what we have for lunch.
Pea & ham soup was not bad for tea yesterday.

by polgara 18th May 2012, 3:37 pm

Fish & chips for lunch. Freezer oddments for tea remains of a chicken curry for OH & I have cottage pie remains.
Must say feeling poorly certainly clears the freezers a bit & shows what a good idea it is to have lots & bits & pieces in them.

by polgara 20th May 2012, 9:29 am

Roast beef today & 2 sweet & sours in the oven to freeze for another day.

by polgara 22nd May 2012, 2:52 pm

Made 4 steak pies & 2 chicken, ham & mushroom pies, so that means 5 freezer pies & 1 for today. With the leftover pastry scraps made some jam tarts.

by polgara 23rd May 2012, 6:34 pm

Made a bolognaise with some piri piri seasoning which was quite nice for a change.

by polgara 24th May 2012, 7:06 pm

Faggots with varies veg & pots & tomato gravy.

by polgara 26th May 2012, 10:54 am

Hot pot with a slug of wine. I know the weather is warm, but sometimes you just really fancy something dribble

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