What's everyone cooking this week?

[Binky Profile]

This is what we made for Good Friday dinner




No meat, just beans and prawns and vegetarian chorizo sausage.

[Renee Profile]

Lovely flavours Binky! I hope that the vegetarian chorizo was good.

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

Binky, how lovely.
And it's great to get a photo from you too.
I've not heard of vegetarian chorizo either. I do get tired of the stuff, but veggie might just get me over it.

[Amyw Profile]

I've tried the Sainsbury's "shroomdogs" before, which was a spicy , chorizo style veggie sausage which was really nice. Lovely photos Renee and Binky

[Renee Profile]

Thanks Amy. I will try those and it's good to get a recommendation especially as there are so many warnings now about cured meats.

[Binky Profile]

Re. vegetarian chorizo, if you add it to your paella too soon, it disintegrates, so the trick is to add it almost at the end.

Something else we have been sampling lately is vegetarian bacon. It smells like bacon, tastes a bit like bacon but the texture is all wrong (plus Pussycat can smell it cooking and expects to get her share of bacon rinds, which of course the veggie bacon doesn't have, so she gets annoyed and makes a nuisance of herself).

[Renee Profile]

I made scones today for when Colin comes to stay early May. It was special request and it's not something that I make these days. I used Angela Neilson's recipe which used buttermilk.

[Joanbunting Profile]

Yesterday we had pan bagnats for lunch, first for ages

Last night we had devilled crab with fried plantain followed by aa tarte tatin.

I'm not cooking today as we've been out for lunch at our friends' restaurant

[karadekoolaid Profile]

Well the arancinu never got done, but I DID have a yearning for something Lebanese.
I made kibbe ( the fried sort), falafel, babagannoush, labne, rice with lentils, tabbouleh and pita bread. Accompanied by one of my very favourite pickles - pickled turnips with beetroot.

[WWordsworth Profile]

Scrambled eggs on an English muffin this morning
Lunch chez a pal - roast lamb etc followed by Christmas pud.
Cheese and crackers this evening, with a couple of glasses of wine for me as I was driving earlier.

Why are all adult soft drinks so sweet?
I had sparkling elderflower presse and a rhubarb and ginger thing.
Both pleasant but needed a splash of soda water.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

With you on the sweetness WW
Even tonic water could do with less sugar imo

I made a pot roasted guinea fowl with Puy lentils. The recipe said it was for two people. As well as a whole fowl and 100g lentils you were supposed to use 150g bacon lardons. Apart from that being a whole portion of meat, the dish would have been impossibly salty. My modified version was quite nice n

[patpoyntz Profile]

Thick pork shoulder steaks, casseroled with shallots, mushrooms, sage, and a splash of white wine, finished with a drizzle of cream. New potatoes, cauliflower and green beans.
Far Breton for pud made with a bottle of prunes in Armagnac.

[Joanbunting Profile]

Local green asparagus with poached eggs for lunch.

Supper is to be a veal pot-roast roast with white wine and morel mushrooms and served with spring vegetables and lovely namoutier potatoes. Local strawberries afterwards.

[Alexandria Profile]

It is nice to have a week home to catch up with my dear and family.

Lunch today is a Moroccan Vegetarian Tagine Dish with Aubergine ( Tajín de Berenjena ) ..

The priniciple ingredients are:

Aubergine
Italian Evoo
leek or shallot
garlic
Fresh parsley
1 (Guindilla) a dried horn shaped red chili pepper
Fresh tomato
Vegetable broth from vegetable stock
Dried fruits (dried apricots & sultanas or raisins or both soaked in water prior to usage)
Chick peas soaked overnight
Cumin to taste
Salt to taste
Black freshly ground Pepper to taste
Saffron Threads

And served with Couscous

Extraordinarily healthy and wonderfully warming.

Have a lovely day.

[Alexandria Profile]

Tuesday 23 / 4.

Feliç Diada de Sant Jordi ( 1507 - Present ) ..

Today in all 4 of the Catalan autonomous regions on
the Iberian mainland and 2 of the Baleric Islands,
(Barcelona, Girona, Tarragona, Lérida, Menorca,
Mallorca) we are celebrating an ancient festive
day, The Patron Saint of Cataluna, Saint Jordi,
The Festival of Saint George, El Día de La Rosa
y El Dia del Libro.

The celebration could be compared to a Valentine´s
Day, where a Gentleman gives a woman a rose and a
woman gives a man, a book ..

A truly extraordinary day ..

Lunch:

A cazuela marinera al estil de Mediteránea.
This is a fish stew prepared in earthenware basically.

Saffron
Evoo
Shallot
Leek
Fennel
fish broth from fish stock home made
fresh peeled and de-seeded tomatoes
Bay leaf
Fresh herbs, Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
A dried red chili pepper shaped like a horn,
called a guindilla
900 grams of fresh wild fish
and shellfish of choice:
which includes Monkfish,
baby squid, baby octopus
clusters, lobster and
jumbo prawns.

Feliç Diada de Sant Jordi,
Happy Saint George Day,
Ciao.

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

Easy cooking for me tonight.

I say cooking. Nothing to marinade, very little prep. I think I'll get my sewing out.
Chicken breast pieces in dried breadcrumbs.
A basic coleslaw, and a tomato and lemon salad.

[Alexandria Profile]

Had to go to the Dentist this morning, for routine cleaning ..

So lunch was a small slice of Spanish Omelette and a
quickly traditionally made fresh Minnestrone ..

The soup was a true warmer up ..

Have a nice day. Wintery wet, grey and cold windy weather ..

[WWordsworth Profile]

Pasta puttanesca tonight because I just can't be bothered!

[Amyw Profile]

Ah I love a pasta puttanesca, one of my favourite sauces. I stuffed some aubergines tonight with a spicy lamb mix, garlic, chilli, cumin, touch of harissa plus onions and peppers with a tomato sauce and topped with feta before baking

[Alexandria Profile]

W. Wordsworth,

Spaghetti or Linguini Puttanesca
is a truly exemplary dish ..

Great idea !