Register

What's everyone eating this week?

Chill out and chat with the foodie community or swap top tips.
NOTE: THE CURRENT CHATTERBOX IS IN THIS FORUM
User avatar
Posts: 3832
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:28 pm

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby jeral » Sun Jun 18, 2017 8:53 pm

Belated happy birthday karadekoolaid :) I hope you're well rested, from the booze that is needless to say ;)

User avatar
Posts: 3687
Joined: Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:53 am
Location: Cheltenumb

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Gillthepainter » Mon Jun 19, 2017 7:13 am

happy birthday for then, Clive.
Notched up another one, eh? (super meal that is). I'll probly make focaccia some time this week too.

Ginger biscuits today this am: http://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/re ... cuits.html

I like the look of these ones too, but don't have eggs in: http://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/re ... kies0.html

User avatar
Posts: 4357
Joined: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:58 pm
Location: Clayton-le-Woods

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Renée » Mon Jun 19, 2017 10:11 am

You cooking in this hot weather, Gill? :shock:

It is a lovely recipe though and the bi-carb will probably produce the crackled surface. My mum used to make some nice ginger biscuits, but just used ground ginger and white sugar, no doubt!

User avatar
Posts: 1773
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 1:40 pm

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby karadekoolaid » Mon Jun 19, 2017 1:01 pm

Courgette & Sweet Potato Pakoras:
600 gms courgette
600 gms sweet potato, peeled
1 large onion
1 tbsp garam masala or curry powder
2 green chiles or 1 tsp chile powder
Salt
1/2 cup besan flour
Oil for deep-frying

Grate the first 3 ingredients into a large bowl. Mix in the rest of the ingredients: you should have a sticky mass. Take a large teaspoon of the mixture and drop it into the hot oil. Fry until browned.
If the first pakoras seem a little too sloppy, add some more besan flour.
You can make these pakoras ( yes, they`re like bhajis) with almost any vegetable. You can also be inventive with the spices .I`ll post a picture a little later on.
Lush: take a piece of sushi-grade red tuna. Cut into 1" thick cylinders. Season with a little salt, and dip in a mixture of crushed black pepper and sesame seeds (black, if you have them). Sear the tuna on all sides in a hot pan; you want to barely seal the tuna and toast the covering. This takes almost no time at all! Remove from the pan. Slice 3/4" pieces from the cylinder and pierce with a bamboo skewer. Serve with mustard sauce, or a nam pla type sauce if you want it spicy.

User avatar
Posts: 3832
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:28 pm

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby jeral » Mon Jun 19, 2017 1:32 pm

Gillthepainter: The ginger cookies look tempting - can I lend you an egg and get repaid in a cookie or two pls? Hope the biscuits turn out well today though -put McV's to shame eh?

Talking of bi-carb, the decidely cracked surface was mentioned for these food porn choc/zucchini cookies also: http://manjuseatingdelights.blogspot.co ... z4kRb3SDBS

The cookies are on the site I'd saved for samosas, which uses bi-carb in the (spicy) pastry to make it puffy when fried: http://www.feastie.com/recipe/manjus-ea ... gie-samosa I imagine they might go well with karadekoolaid's pakoras if there's already some hot oil on the hob.

User avatar
Posts: 4357
Joined: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:58 pm
Location: Clayton-le-Woods

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Renée » Mon Jun 19, 2017 2:28 pm

Thanks ever so much, Clive! That's such a good recipe. Of course I have everything except the Besan flour, which I could have bought yesterday in Booths. I'll see if Sainsbos have it. I love the idea of the tuna too. I can buy both sushi grade tuna and salmon from the fish stall on Chorley market.

Thanks for the links, jeral. I would be particularly interested in the second one.

User avatar
Posts: 3832
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:28 pm

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby jeral » Mon Jun 19, 2017 4:10 pm

Renée, I'll lend you some besan flour and you can pay me back in a couple of pakoras ;)

Sainsbury lists besan on their website as gram flour: http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/ ... yFacetId1=

User avatar
Posts: 4357
Joined: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:58 pm
Location: Clayton-le-Woods

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Renée » Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:30 pm

Oh, silly me! :lol: Thanks jeral. I did know that Dove's Farm made it. I'll borrow some of yours in the meantime! I'll put a photo on here when I've made them.

I mixed some ground ginger into some sugar and then tossed cubes of watermelon in. I've been living off that during the day for the past two days and having a normal meal at night.

User avatar
Posts: 3687
Joined: Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:53 am
Location: Cheltenumb

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Gillthepainter » Tue Jun 20, 2017 9:16 am

very refreshing, Renee.
You need something like that desperately throughout the day.

I made the cookies this am, as it happens and I cannot even claim whether the recipe was a success, with the masses! of tweaks I made. They are cooling.
Not enough butter in - so I used some double cream.
Dried ginger, not stem.
And 75g sugar instead of the full amount.

Think they'll cool soft? ............... let's see.


Prawn mocktail yesterday
Image

Clive, the pakoras are right up my street.
Nice one.

User avatar
Posts: 4357
Joined: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:58 pm
Location: Clayton-le-Woods

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Renée » Tue Jun 20, 2017 9:50 am

What a beautiful picture, Gill! Your Prawn Mocktail looks good on your nice plate!

Good luck with those cookies, but I'm sure that they'll taste good!

User avatar
Posts: 3687
Joined: Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:53 am
Location: Cheltenumb

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Gillthepainter » Tue Jun 20, 2017 10:08 am

Morning Renee.
You are right, against all odds, they've worked a treat.
Tony likes the ginger biscuits in Costa .... or is it Soho. So I shaped them like the chain biscuits you pick up at the counter when paying.

They're biscuits all right. Not hard like a ginger one should be, but jolly good.
I made the oaty ones.

I'm very surprised.

Image

User avatar
Posts: 3832
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:28 pm

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby jeral » Wed Jun 21, 2017 1:04 am

Those biscuits do look good and seemingly don't need to dunked either so a definite success,. Will they be unique if you didn't write down your tweak measures?

Lots of soup here since eating itself seems exhausting when weather is too hot. A mussel/potato/leek/garlic/slightly spicy broth tonight :) A mushroom, baby sweetcorn, red bell pepper and egg noodles soup for tomorrow.

By the way, that pre-sauteed holy trinity that I open froze as quenelles (earlier thread somewhere) have been really good time savers. (Celery, onion, carrot.)

User avatar
Posts: 3687
Joined: Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:53 am
Location: Cheltenumb

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Gillthepainter » Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:02 am

What delicious soups, Jeral.
And a standby in the freezer too. You are good.

Tony ate 5 biscuits - they are for him, honest.
And complained all afternoon, that he was full. But still wanted a roast chicken dinner with veg. n dark gravy.

I was like a wet rag by the end of cooking.

My dream kitchen has an outside door to the garden, not just a window at the sink like me - I suppose everyone here has that?

User avatar
Posts: 4357
Joined: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:58 pm
Location: Clayton-le-Woods

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Renée » Wed Jun 21, 2017 10:11 am

Yes, I do have an outside door in the kitchen, Gill, which has been kept closed to keep the hotness out!

What an excellent idea to have that sautéed stand-by in the freezer, Jeral.

User avatar
Posts: 3832
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:28 pm

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby jeral » Wed Jun 21, 2017 1:01 pm

Gillthepainter: No back door here, just window over sink, which cleverly blows the gas out on the hob, doh, so I have to erect a chopping board shield to redirect the wind.

TBH, I don't use the normal oven at all this weather, just my beloved counter-top halogen fan oven which doesn't generate any noticeable room heat, and definitely no killer blast like when you open an oven door. I think Renée has/had one too? Mine is the bigger one of the two available and could do a whole chicken easily enough but the veg would mostly have to wait their turn until is chicken resting (or be cooked elsewise). I reckon that Tony ought to show his appreciation with a new diamond necklace at least for your valiant - what? - the word "slog" springs to mind ;)

User avatar
Posts: 4357
Joined: Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:58 pm
Location: Clayton-le-Woods

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Renée » Wed Jun 21, 2017 1:57 pm

Yes, I do have a halogen oven, Jeral and also bought the large size. Mostly I use it for grilling. These days, I mostly use a sauté pan with a lid on the hob. It works well and no need to put the oven on. Since I cleaned my oven recently, I don't feel like using
it! :twisted:

User avatar
Posts: 4986
Joined: Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:30 pm
Location: Provence

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Joanbunting » Sun Jun 25, 2017 12:26 pm

Quite tricky to menu plan this week - just too hot.

I retreated to my cook once and turn it into several other things for later, meals mode. Roast Loin of pork (there isn't any crackling on French pork, which became, a stir fry with hoi-sin and cashews, a Chinese pork salad with bean sprouts and carrots and some rather delish pork and stuffing sandwiches.

I've made a lot of icecream and sorbets. I love vodka tomato water ice in avocado,

Cold soups have featured too. Gazpacho. courgette and cucumber, and chilled tomato consomme which i serve with little croutons topped with tepenade.

Another hot weather favourite which we had yesterday is melon, mozarella and cured ham salad with a mint vinaigrette
Avocado, crispy pancetta and blue cheese salad,. Smoked duck breast in fine slices with beetroot, goat cheese and walnut salad all been consumed. I even made veggie Scotch eggs.

User avatar
Posts: 3832
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:28 pm

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby jeral » Sun Jun 25, 2017 7:02 pm

Sounds like lovely cold grub :) Various meze type bits and dips here inbetween soups too.

Making braised pak choi tonight before it starts to languish. Probably with rice, fresh orange, tamari, fresh ginger, mushrooms and a couple or three cherry toms in there somewhere.

I made a rocket, walnut nuts, cheese, sesame oil, garlic, shallot, pesto yesterday. OK I suppose, maybe adding apricot jam might help. Could be one of life's mysteries I can live without solving ;)

User avatar
Posts: 1773
Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2012 1:40 pm

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby karadekoolaid » Mon Jun 26, 2017 3:12 am

A friend came by last weekend and gave me a kg of mushrooms and a kg of asparagus. :birthday-dancer Wonderful!! I love them...but a whole KILO of each?
I can assure you, I did everything possible to use them. As I write, there are only enough of each to make one more meal!
We had mushrooms and eggs for breakfast.
Then I made a Pasta Primavera; mushrooms, asparagus, broccoli, baby carrots, garlic, cream, farfalle.
We had a plateful of asparagus just as it is.
I dried 400 gms of mushrooms for future use.
We had a salad of lettuce, rocket, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes.
I made pizza with mushrooms and asparagus.
BUT today`s lunch was the best of all. My wife said: "I fancy prawns and asparagus", so I went to the market and bought fresh prawns.
The prawns:peeled, deveined, flash-fried in the wok until barely pink, then removed.
The asparagus: cooked in salted water for barely 3 minutes, then drained.
I mixed soy sauce, fish sauce, lemon juice, sugar and chile powder( just a bit).
Then I fired up the wok, added minced garlic and ginger, the shrimp, the asparagus, cooked for 30 seconds, added the soy mixture, mixed and served with rice.
Glorious! I could have licked the plate, it was so good (and easy!)

User avatar
Posts: 635
Joined: Fri Jan 15, 2016 6:16 pm

Re: What's everyone eating this week?

Postby Petronius » Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:37 am

Local pub.

Mussels in a deliciously bad-for-me creamy sauce.
mussels.JPG
mussels.JPG (216.11 KiB) Viewed 7709 times


Followed by Duck l'Orange
duck.jpg
duck.jpg (235.11 KiB) Viewed 7709 times


Those vegetables were perfectly cooked and the chips probably the best around here.

Sadly no room for dessert. :(

PreviousNext

Return to Food Chat & Chatterbox

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 15 guests