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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Oneeyedhen on August 28, 2012, 10:08:07 am
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I dont mind the cooking its deciding what to have everyday thats a chore. Any ideas? Or what are you having?
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Agree
but we're having roast belly pork(our own :thumbsup: ), leeky,cheesy mash, carrots, peas & gravy, YUM! :excited:
Mandy :pig:
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I extracted a pork belly from the freezer yesterday and am going to cook it in some cider, onion and any other ingredients I find. I get the same as you, love cooking but struggle to think of different things to cook, we seem to eat the same things all the while. Still got loads of beef and sausage in the freezer so most meals are based round that.
Ha! Great minds think alike, you wrote that while I was writing mine ;D
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I've got a peice of belly pork in the freezer.......I think I'll just go and get it out. Thanks :yum:
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im doing ribs tonight as the kids love them
not sure what im doing to accompany the ribs yet though!!!
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Think this should be a daily question, then I'd never have to stand staring into the pantry/freezer again wondering what the hell to cook, I'd just look here!
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I have to say i find winter meals much easier to decide what we're having but summer i always find challenging, don't know why, guess i just like winter comfort food the best!
mandy :pig:
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The kitchen is the warmest place in our house in the winter so I'm always in there cooking. Also use the oven by the fire so tend to have slow cooked meals.
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Having had different visitors for lunch Saturday, sunday and supper last night and b
eing back at work for a late shift today we are having very simple chorizo pasta, a firm favourite and easy standby meal. Hope we all enjoy whatever we all cook
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Pasta is a great standby. My favourite is also the easiest. Fry some onions, add a tin of chopped tomatoes and a bit of tomato paste. Stir into the spaghetti when cooked. Sprinkle over some cheese.
Mmmmm
Sally
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Beef stew for the 5 carnivores, goodness knows what for the 2 veg-heads. Probably vegetable stew to which my 10 year old will say...what's the option for vegetarians who don't like veggie stew :huff:
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For some reason Wenesday night is spaggy bol nite in our house, i guess its because we have a peak of the week bottle of red wine to go with it :yum: I use any leftover bol to make a lasagne to go in the freezer for an emergency meal at a later date (useful in the showing season when i don't want to come home from a show and start cooking, just have to remember to tak eit out of the freezer before we leave!)
Mandy :pig:
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This time of the year its always....Oops ive got a huge courgette that escaped notice, what do you want to make with that/
(peel, chop into cubes,put a littltle water in a pan just to cover the bottem, add the courgette/marrow, garlic and seasoning. When cooked, whiz, add a little quark/cream cheese/ sour cream/whatever. pour over pasta or eat just as it is...yum)
today its going to be beans or some toms...they both need picking...and the spinach needs cutting AGAIN!
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Right due to my courgette glut I'm having that for lunch! If it's peeled the kids won't know the courgettes either, bonus! :thumbsup:
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Im in the process of making a huge batch of beefburgers, so OH wants a couple in buns with salad for dinner tonight. I may have the same, but then again, I havent had any fish for a while so I may steam a trout and have that with salad.
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Hebridean hogget cold rolled shoulder, which was roasted with pineapple mmm :yum: New pots from the garden and as we haven't got any veg ready (weird - I blame the bad weather) I think I will curry-fy the meat.
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Beef stew for the 5 carnivores, goodness knows what for the 2 veg-heads. Probably vegetable stew to which my 10 year old will say...what's the option for vegetarians who don't like veggie stew :huff:
Go without?? ;D ;D
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Pancakes.... as I can make the batter in advance (and it only takes 2 minutes), then have to take the girls to fiddle lesson for 6pm and OH has to do the milking...
How does anyone with milking aninals ever manage to have tea before 8.30pm?
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How does anyone with milking aninals ever manage to have tea before 8.30pm?
Start the day at 3am?
No, honestly... I did relief milking on a farm once a few years back, where we started that early. Finished the day around 6pm. Not everybody's cup af tea - but I thought it was great; there was me driving to the farm at 2am on Saturday and Sunday mornings, when everybody else was just staggering home from the pub!
Anyway, tea tonight: Since it's been veg packing day today, I have the usual "dodgy" leftovers (not good enough for the boxes, but still fine to eat for me). Plenty of red peppers and courgettes today. So it's that in the pan with some onion, and a couple of eggs on top, with a sprinkling of cheese.
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Home made meatballs and tomato sauce for me ;D
The way I love to have courgettes is to slice lengthways, as thinly as possible, dip in beaten egg, then in seasoned flour (chilli flakes as well if you like) then shallow fry in a very hot frying pan and eat right away yummm But not the healthiest way I guess :o
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Yep- I've got a very large courgette to stuff! ;D Some might call it a marrow, but I like to be accurate :yum:
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we're having chicken
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it was supposed to be pork steak pie but Lillian thought i was a Greek god and burned the meat
so it ended up being pork mince pie very tasty pork mince from a Hampshire you just cant beat it go be a devil and try some :excited: :farmer:
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We've just sent a load of saddlebacks off so its sausages for dinner tonight. With mashed desiree potatoes from the farm along with chard and the first pickings of runner beans - yum! Big fan of the desiree's as being bright pink they are easy to find as you dig the ground over!
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I did OH some pasta with bacon pieces, peas and pesto. I had my usual salad with smoked salmon trimmings.
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And tonight it will be kohlrabi and carrots (we had a lot of kohlrabi left this week, too - fortunately one of my favourite veg; often cook it mixed with carrots and/or peas); plus some beetroot leaves, cooked with onion in butter - like spinach, and some poached eggs.
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Fish cakes tonight I think. Does anyone have fab tips for homemade ones? I just buy them now as my own never seem that good :innocent:
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today will be carbonarra, the diet friendly version i have to cook to keep swmbo happy!!!
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Didn't make the beef stew/veggie stew yesterday as I had a Class A tantrum after 4 children drove me to distraction so being the supermum I am (not) I handed them over to their Dad and he made them something with quorn in it I believe.
So I've got some casserole steak in the fridge, just deciding exactly what to do with it. It will probably involve Guinness though, one for me, one for the pot, one for me....
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Ooo thats a slippery slope Plumseverywhere ....sounds great tho ;)
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Fish cakes tonight I think. Does anyone have fab tips for homemade ones? I just buy them now as my own never seem that good :innocent:
Great idea. Ive got load of odd bits of fish in the freezer. I may fry mixing ordinary haddock with smoked haddock for added flavour, I also have some smallish cod fillets, so I could try them with a small tin of shrimps. OR I could just make a fish pie instead. Even better!
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I have an old farmhouse recipe book from the 1950's- cheap and cheerful, and maybe at times strange dishes, but I like experimenting!! One from the book, that I like is mashed potato, mixed with leftover cooked meat, and diced onion. Mix in a little gravy, put in ovenproof dish, and put in oven 25-30 mins until thoroughly warmed. Just add veg, and more gravy if wanted. Quick and easy.
Also do a pie base, layer with cooked bacon, chopped up. Then crack 5 eggs on top, top with pastry, and cook. I like this with baked beans :)
Now the nights are drawing in, I tend to make casseroles or stews, one day, and then they just need reheating the following evening.
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I dont mind the cooking its deciding what to have everyday thats a chore. Any ideas? Or what are you having?
Why don't you consider taking tme to make a weekly menu, it makes life so much better, just sellotape it inside a cupboard door. No need to ponder about the same think day in day out. ;) It worked brilliant for me.
HTH
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Great big fry up scrummy :thumbsup:
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Fish cakes tonight I think. Does anyone have fab tips for homemade ones? I just buy them now as my own never seem that good :innocent:
Great idea. Ive got load of odd bits of fish in the freezer. I may fry mixing ordinary haddock with smoked haddock for added flavour, I also have some smallish cod fillets, so I could try them with a small tin of shrimps. OR I could just make a fish pie instead. Even better!
If you can get the Japanese panko breadcrumbs they make very good fishcakes - a lot of the restaurant ones use them and they do make a read difference - very crunchy and light rather than soggy.
I like salmon ones with bits of spring onion and some cheese in the mash....mmmmmmmmmm
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Tonight I gave OH some left over pork from Sunday's joint, with new potatoes, cabbage and carrots. Still some pork left so guess what he's having tomorrow.
Wish I could make fishcakes but anything make like that (rissoles, etc) always fall to bits in the pan. :(
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Roxy, is your book "Farmhouse Fare" ? :yum: :yum:
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tonight will be leftovers with baked potato's as that was scheduled for tomorrow but as no one is now here for tea tomorrow leftover night has been moved forward!!!
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Our own beef just in the slow cooker for tonight. Potatoes and our 1st runner beans, from the garden, to go with it. Hungry all ready! :yum: :yum:
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Tonight I gave OH some left over pork from Sunday's joint, with new potatoes, cabbage and carrots. Still some pork left so guess what he's having tomorrow.
Wish I could make fishcakes but anything make like that (rissoles, etc) always fall to bits in the pan. :(
Just a thought MGM, do you bind the ingedients together with an egg? Also do you chill the fishcakes before you fry them. Ive found that especially the chilling helps them keep their shape. It helps in keeping the breadcrumbs on the fishcakes too.
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Coat them first in flour, then egg, then the breadcrumbs. :thumbsup:
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I was planning a nice roast pork with all the trimmings but OH got a phone call while I was working outside so friends are now arriving about 4pm. Not a happy bunny :rant: By the time they leave cooking with not be something I will be keen to do and NO I do not feel like iviting them to stay. Mean I know but we have been busy enough today and all I want is a nice quite evening. :rant:
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Eggs Florentine it is then.... :thumbsup:
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tonight is roast chicken dinner!!!
but the highlight of today was fresh bread at lunch time that i made and its the first time i have done it so im well happy and it tasted good!!!
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Roxy, is your book "Farmhouse Fare" ? :yum: :yum:
Yes, Sylvia, I think it came via a Farmers Weekly magazine. Probably my Auntie at the farm sent away for it. Getting a bit tatty now, and the cover has fallen to bits. Have scoured the internet for a replacement. Love that book!!
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Well beat this. OH had homemade bread toasted, with peanut butter (crunchy of course!) and I had 2 glasses of organic tomato juice with worcester sauce. I get it from Aldi,. Its fabulous.
Reason being, at lunchtime, OH had 2 of my huge quarter pound burgers in rolls with all the trimmings, and I had 2 huge french sausages (pure meat, no fillers) in a mini baguette. It was so filling, my conscience wouldnt allow me to do a dinner! (Its better to eat the main meal at luchtime anyway).
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Sounds good, Mary. Tonight I had baked potatoes with baked beans and cheese, and side salad.
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Well as we have some b&b guests for the week , tonight's menu is : home made air dried ham with tomatos and basil, followed by beef wellington , then a Grand Marnier souffle. :excited:
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Tiz, I think you may have a few more guests turning up for dinner tonight with a menu like that! You'd best start building the barricades now! ;D
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Yes, that sounds delicious!!
Have enough trouble sorting menu ideas out for two of us, let alone B & B guests as well!!
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tonight we have Yonderton Sausages probably done as toad in the hole but im not sure yet!!!
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Umm toad in the hole sounds fab too, all these good food ideas are making me hungry :innocent: . Think it'll be a macaroni night tonight tho, just me and the kids. Hubby is spending all his time with his combine these days ::) . Great to have some sunny days to get on with things :excited:
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The other day, we were given some raspberries by our builder (from his garden), so this morning following OH's request, I made a huge raspberry and apple pie. I made loads of pastry, so I made a Bakewell tart as a present for our builder as its his favourite, and I made a cheese and ham quiche for tea tonight. We will have it with salad and home made potato salad if I can be arsed to do it. If I cant, it will be new potatoes and baked beans!!
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We have sausages tonight (not our own but just wait a couple more weeks) with left over veg from yesterday turned into a bubble and squeak. Mmmmm
Sally
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i'm doing a Salad Niscoise with our first 3 tomatoes :excited:
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Oh, sounds very posh Bumblebear ;D
Sally
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I need to use up some eggs......think I can feel a cake coming on!
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i'm doing a Salad Niscoise with our first 3 tomatoes :excited:
I picked my first 4 tomatoes, too - mind you, the largest is about 1cm diameter! :)
Mixed veg soup tonight (had some celery that needed using up, and courgettes...), plus some beetroot salad (cooked beetroot - an old recipe from back home).
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We bought a small freezer from our neighbour a few months ago for £40 and it was nearly full. She said to throw the food away as it had been there over as year. Tonight OH had chicken nougats from it. Only a few more of those to go and a load of sausages and we'll have used up all the food. It was definitely a bargain, that freezer.
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I never know what I am going to have for tea tonight until I see what our neighbours have thrown out and I can get a look in their dustbin :'( :yum: :-J
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Today we will be having slow cooked gammon joint baby new potatos and veggies of some kind...
unfortunately all purchased from supermarket but its still high up my list of favourite meals!!!
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Fish (a pink fleshed one) baked in the oven and served with salad and baked potato. :yum:
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chilli mackerel and couscous with courgettes fried in butter.mmm
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I never know what I am going to have for tea tonight until I see what our neighbours have thrown out and I can get a look in their dustbin :'( :yum: :-J
I'm curious, what do your nieghbours throw out? :thinking:
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Thai red curry. Never had one before, but a friend gave me one of those sachets of paste, and I have some tofu that needs using up (instead of the beef that the recipe has in it...), and happen to have all the other ingredients, too - let's see what comes out of it!
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I never know what I am going to have for tea tonight until I see what our neighbours have thrown out and I can get a look in their dustbin :'( :yum: :-J
I'm curious, what do your nieghbours throw out? :thinking:
its amazing what people do throw out, i used to work with a lady who every friday would bring me a great big bag of stuff for the pigs, all M&S organic, we lived like kings over the weekends, too good for pigs!
Mandy :pig:
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That reminds me of the farm shop I used to buy from years ago - they had those large boxes full of stuff "for the horses" - once that included 4 mangos, pretty much ok... For 50p I had almost enough fruit and veg for the week!
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Got some smoked salmon off the reduced heep in tesco today, :yum: . Salmon, salad and oven chips tonight :thumbsup:
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Had some fresh greens delivered in my Tesco order at the weekend. We had some Sunday with roast lamb, having some more tonight with roast pork and all the trimmings. I havent done a proper dinner for a couple of nights so Ill be making up for it this evening.
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Sunday we culled, plucked and gutted our only Hubbard from a batch of chicks that hatched 12 weeks ago.
Sunday night was chicken breast wrapped in bacon, mash, courgettes from the garden, cabbage with orange sauce.
Monday night was roast chicken, cranberry sauce, roast potatoes, courgettes, pureed parsnips, stuffing balls.
Last night was the last scraps of the chicken combined with a leek and mushroom sauce covered in pastry served with roast potatoes and courgettes and green beans from the garden.
All mouth wateringly delicious and OH did our Hubbard proud. :yum:
Our next Hubbard won't be ready for 7 weeks and already I'm getting chicken withdrawal symptoms.
Tonight is lasagne made with shop bought mince - it just won't be the same..... :gloomy: