Food What's For Dinner Tonight?

Mapled Ham with pineapple

Gourmet sweet potato classic

Sausage, Apple and cranberry stuffing

Corn

and homemade butter tarts for dessert

Easter dinner slayed!

 

Borla,
I WANT that.....(then again one and a half pounds gained over the weekend!)

 

Damn you, Borla, you just had to include photos .

 

Spanish chicken stew. I am sure the elitist food snobs here will call me a wild beast or a filthy animal for using only basic ingredients or making chicken stock from a stock cube, but here you go:

1, Brown off a chicken breast in some olive oil. Have a little black pepper on it if you like
2, Then take the chicken away and keep warm somewhere (I left in the microwave)
3, Then cook up the following chopped veg in same pan - 1/2 white onion, 1/2 leek. 1 green pepper, 1 red pepper, 2 tomato's, 2 cloves garlic
4, Once that is all soft chuck the chicken back in pot, give it another 10 mins lowish heat
5, Pour half cup white wine on top of it all and up the heat to burn off the alcohol
6, Add a cup of chicken stock and cover, give it another 20 mins low heat
7, Just before the end squash up another 2 pieces garlic and some parsley

I had it with some steamed spinach. Nice it was too.

I dont really know why its Spanish either, but that's what the recipe is called.

 

Your recipe sounds really good.

As for "elitist food snobs," making a good meal out of basic ingredients is what cooking is all about, IMO. Not everyone has the $$ and/or time to track down, and/or make, 'exotic' ingredients.

 

I was just being obnoxious I suppose. I do think there are people who are unreasonably snobby about food and cooking in general sometimes, but I don't begrudge people who get into cooking as a hobby and like to buy exotic ingredients or special gadgets and so on, because they enjoy it.

For myself, I get on pretty well with a couple of knives, a couple of pans, and ordinary ingredients, but then again there are plenty of people who would think I was wasting my money paying $200 for a badminton racket and would get on just as well with a $40 one.

I like cooking, and I don't do it enough, but for my favourite stuff is simple "peasant" food. The sort of things that "cooks" make, not "chefs"

Tonight I just had a ready meal though.. chicken chowmein, with a side salad - some lettuce, some tomato, some cucumber, some radishes, the other half the onion. The thing is it probably isnt any cheaper and it doesnt taste so nice as something you make yourself - its just laziness but I dont know what I'm being lazy for, cos its 8PM now and I have nothing to do until I go to bed but watch TV now. (or at a stretch, go for a walk...)

 

SF, it sounds like you're doing more cooking than many single guys. Cooking for one isn't much fun. There are times when I'm a 'bachelor' and my eating habits take a serious dive.

 

Whatever you "cook" for yourself using REAL ingredients probably has no chemicals or additives. (Well except for what the EVIL MONSANTO has sold to the farmers.)

 

At Kroger I scored some Turkey Italian Sausage Hot really cheap, and a couple of Moist & Tender Whole Pork Loins for $.99 a pound.

 

I'm actually going to cook something tonight. Probably crushed tomatoes for a quick sauce over baked chicken.

 

I was shamed into cooking something for myself rather than ready meal

A nice, spicy fish stew.

1, chop an onion and brown it in some olive oil
2, add 2 cloves garlic, 1 red chili pepper, 1 red bell pepper, about 2 inches of a sliced up chorizo sausage give it another 10 mins
3, add half a tin (like 200 g) of haricot beans and 2/3 tin of plum tomato's, a GOOD tsp of paprika, cover it for 20 mins on a low-ish heat
4, add a cup of fish stock, then add a piece of rainbow trout, re-cover and 10 more mins at medium heat, just to the point the fish is on the verge of coming to pieces.

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It was a big meal for one to be honest, but then again I was hungry.

For me, just the right level of heat. A good fiery taste but not too hot.

Basically I dont cook anything at a difficulty level above (1) one pot (2) adding different ingredients in time (3) let all the natural flavours mix together.

I'm going to have a go at a Lebanese salad I read about online tomorrow. Making an effort to eat better and start losing some more weight again.

 

Onion, green & red bell peppers stir-fried/sauteed in olive oil. The oil, with plenty of garlic & Italian seasoning in it, sat on low heat for about 45 minutes before I added the peppers, then later the onions.

Hot turkey Italian sausage cooked in a griddle pan. I thoroughly perforated the sausages to drain out as much grease as possible. Note--I only ate one link, I normally have two.

Spaghetti.

 

I'm not sure the name of this, but its Lebanese and I copied it down from a Youtube video the other day.

1, boil up 1.5 cups of water (bit of salt and pepper in there if you like)

2, once boiling put in 1 cup bulgar wheat and get the hear down to simmer it and cover. Cook 15 mins

Meanwhile

3, Cut up 1 cucumber, 4 tomato's, 5 spring onions, a good handful parsley, about half as much mint as parsley. Mix it all up

4, put zest of one lemon and juice of one lemon

5, add a decent amount olive oil

6, fluff up the wheat when cooked and tip in it. Do that straight away cos apparently the heat helps the other flavours come out

7, Mix it all together and then put in the fridge for as long as you can bare (one hour if poss) before eating

(this is enough for 4 portions if you are having as a side salad or two very good portions as a meal on its own)

I had this with a grilled chicken breast and it was actually delicious if I do say so myself.

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Yesterday evening rather than buy 10 ready meals for the next week I bought a ton of vegtables, fruit, sauces, and other ingredients and spent probably £10 less than I normally do on the fast food, and have loads of things that will last past the week (like a bottle of soy sauce, a bottle of oyster sauce...) AND that includes buying a certain lady I know a box of strawberry champagne truffles (whatever they are, I can't have one being diabetic and all, but she seemed happy with them which was the main point)

 

Holy FSM... paleo chicken nuggets.

 

Slow cooked in the Crock-Pot, a new recipe--apple stuffed pork loin roast.
Fresh (actually overlooked in the fridge) greenbeans flavored with chopped onions.
Steamed carrots.
Oatmeal raisin spice cookies.