Author Topic: What can we have for tea tonight?  (Read 26025 times)

NormandyMary

  • Joined Apr 2011
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #30 on: August 29, 2012, 11:11:12 am »
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!

Roxy

  • Joined May 2009
  • Peak District
    • festivalcarriages.co.uk
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #31 on: August 29, 2012, 11:38:07 am »
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. 
 

lill

  • Joined May 2011
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #32 on: August 29, 2012, 11:41:48 am »
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

Carl f k

  • Joined Aug 2012
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #33 on: August 29, 2012, 12:40:26 pm »
Great big fry up scrummy :thumbsup:

lachlanandmarcus

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #34 on: August 29, 2012, 05:32:34 pm »
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

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #35 on: August 29, 2012, 09:29:05 pm »
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.   :(

Sylvia

  • Joined Aug 2009
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #36 on: August 30, 2012, 07:40:37 am »
Roxy, is your book "Farmhouse Fare" ?  :yum: :yum:

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #37 on: August 30, 2012, 07:59:31 am »
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!!!




Oneeyedhen

  • Joined May 2011
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #38 on: September 02, 2012, 11:07:36 am »
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:

NormandyMary

  • Joined Apr 2011
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #39 on: September 02, 2012, 02:06:15 pm »
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.

tizaala

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • Dolau, Llandrindod Wells,Powys
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #40 on: September 02, 2012, 02:14:32 pm »
Coat them first in flour, then egg, then the breadcrumbs.  :thumbsup:

sabrina

  • Joined Nov 2008
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #41 on: September 02, 2012, 02:40:42 pm »
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:

tizaala

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • Dolau, Llandrindod Wells,Powys
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #42 on: September 02, 2012, 03:12:46 pm »
Eggs Florentine  it is then.... :thumbsup:

bloomer

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • leslie, fife
  • i have chickens, sheep and opinions!!!
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #43 on: September 02, 2012, 03:17:29 pm »
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!!!

Roxy

  • Joined May 2009
  • Peak District
    • festivalcarriages.co.uk
Re: What can we have for tea tonight?
« Reply #44 on: September 02, 2012, 05:03:51 pm »
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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