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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Sakkarin » Thu Oct 12, 2017 10:55 pm

I'm willing to be persuaded, but I've tried the part-baked ones a few times over the years (basically when they are on offer), and the rolls have never ended up remotely like "baker's" bread :-(

I usually have frozen home-made in the freezer, but I've been lazy recently and not baked for a week or so.

I've got the "reconstituting" down to a tee - switch the oven on at mark 6, one minute in the microwave at 40%, then 6 minutes in the oven (from nearly cold).

Unfortunately occasionally I have a late night snack and forget to turn the oven off, and wake up to an extremely toasty kitchen :-(

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Alexandria » Fri Oct 13, 2017 12:01 pm

Shall be in Portugal until Sunday. So lots of shellfish, squid, calamar, cod fish and Portuguese cheeses ..

A couple of Portuguese desserts too ..
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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby WhitefieldFoodie » Fri Oct 13, 2017 4:36 pm

Worst day ever...

Maccies for breakfast.

KFC for lunch.

Drinks in Manchester for a colleagues birthday tonight :oops:

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Pampy » Fri Oct 13, 2017 7:59 pm

And a kebab after?? :lol:

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Sakkarin » Mon Oct 16, 2017 2:35 pm

Better late than never. Nice batch of rolls today...

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby WhitefieldFoodie » Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:25 pm

Pampy wrote:And a kebab after?? :lol:


A greasy pizza at 2.30am :lol: Oh the shame!


Just to make my self feel better. On Sunday I roasted a corn fed, free range chicken on a bed of sliced fennel and leek with some chicken stock in the bottom, when I was resting the chicken I spiked it with white wine and a sizeable glug of cream and a sprinkle of tarragon and served it with the chicken and some roasted cauliflower and carrots.

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Gillthepainter » Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:39 pm

My sort of sandwich, Sakkarin. Your bread looks goooooood.

Chicken cream and tarragon - what's not to like.

I'm roasting a piece of beef in mustard.
Which I shall cool down and slice. And we shall have beef and mustard sandwiches tonight.
Sliced beef is such a price for 4 thin slivers, I may as well cook my own.


Kebabs are quite healthy in the dodgy scheme of things aren't they?
All that raw trimmings and salad.

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Renée » Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:42 pm

Yummy!! :clap The chicken that is and not the greasy pizza! You slept alright after that? :o

Beautiful rolls, Sakkarin! Do you not put any butter or evoo on your bread?

I can almost smell the beef roasting from here, Gill! What cut do you get?

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Gillthepainter » Mon Oct 16, 2017 4:23 pm

Topside.
I won't buy a cut if it just says "for roasting".

And marginally prefer topside to silverside.

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Renée » Mon Oct 16, 2017 10:52 pm

My mum always used to get topside, Gill.

I made the chicken salad with the Green Goddess dressing again today! It was good enough to have two days running.

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Alexandria » Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:04 am

Lots of wonderful shellfish, seafood and fish with fins in Lisbon until end of week.

Some amazing pastries shared with my 2 colleagues too .. A forkbite here and there ..

The Portuguese goat cheeses are amazing ..

Lots of fun ..

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Alexandria » Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:07 am

@ Sakkarin,

Wonderful bread !

Is it whole meal ( whole wheat ) ?

Lovely color ..
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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Petronius » Tue Oct 17, 2017 8:56 am

Road kill venison.

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Renée » Tue Oct 17, 2017 9:03 am

:twisted: I used to post on Recipe Quest, an American food board and someone used to put road-kill recipes on the board!

Alexandria, I'm so pleased that you are enjoying Lisbon! I would love all that fish and the occasional "delights". :thumbsup

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Gillthepainter » Tue Oct 17, 2017 9:43 am

Fish fish fish fish fish.
You're in the right place, Alexandria.

My mum would slave over sunday lunch.
All I was interested in was the roast potatoes and gravy (she'd make extra). I used to just have one slice of meat to show willing.

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Gillthepainter » Tue Oct 17, 2017 9:45 am

If I mentioned venison this morning, my husband would jump at the chance to have some.
He adores it.

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby WhitefieldFoodie » Tue Oct 17, 2017 1:10 pm

Renée wrote:Yummy!! :clap The chicken that is and not the greasy pizza! You slept alright after that? :o


I did until about 7.30am when I thought my heartburn was that bad I thought I had drank bleach instead of Vimto :lol:

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Joanbunting » Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:54 pm

That roll looks lovely Sakkers :yum

I cooked a local pork roast on Sunday with HM sage and onion, braised endives, garlic green beans and baby potaoes cooked round the meat.

Yesterday I turned some of the rest of the pork along with the rest of the gravy, stuffing and some apple sauteed in butter into a pie filling and it was really tasty - something my mum used to make.

Ii made a big pan of roasted pumpkin and tomato soupd too which, as it turned out was just as well because we now have an unexpected guest for supper tonight.

He is a friend from Paris who, with his wife, converted a farm building in the hameau as a holiday home. Unfortunately his wife died a few weeks ago. he turned up at the weekend in a dreadful state, unable to even go into the house and was stying in the guest house whose owner is a friend.

They are both coming for supper tonight but I am not looking forward to it and haven't had time to shop. So it is to be pumpkin soup with an escabeche mussel topping. The rest of the prok stir-fried with plums, spring onions and cashew nuts and served on noodles with stir fry veg (thank you Picard!). I have plenty of bananas so its Bahama bananas (flambeed in rum) with pecan and caramel ice cream.

It's just times like this I know why I always have a full freezer, stock cupboard etc and of course there is always plenty of wine :wino

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Sakkarin » Tue Oct 17, 2017 6:03 pm

Alexandria: My usual recipe for 4 chunky rolls uses 250g of strong white flour and 75g of strong wholemeal. Sometimes I go for all white, depends how I feel.

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Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Gillthepainter » Wed Oct 18, 2017 10:31 am

That's sad, Joan. What rotten luck.

Still, you can take the edge off for one night. It takes a year to learn to live with this sort of thing.
That was the best advice I received. And I counted down those sad weeks.
Twas true.

My freezer is filled with raw things. So whilst handy storage, it doesn't save me anything when it comes to visitors.
I have to add 3hrs to defrost in effect before I start too.

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