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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby WWordsworth » Wed Jan 05, 2022 7:24 pm

Did you follow a recipe for your Oxtail stew WW


It was this one Patsy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/oxtail_stew_91956

For the patty I boiled potatoes and parsnips, mashed them with seasoning and horseradish sauce.
Then shaped them into discs and fried them until hot and crispy.

They are pretty good with a poached or fried egg too.

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby scullion » Thu Jan 06, 2022 1:57 pm

after starting to sort through and rationalise the work/storage space in the pantry i have found the odd jars of peanut butter that need using - so it's spicy peanut soup for dinner tonight - and i need to make some more bread.

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby PatsyMFagan » Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:06 pm

WWordsworth wrote:
Did you follow a recipe for your Oxtail stew WW


It was this one Patsy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/oxtail_stew_91956

For the patty I boiled potatoes and parsnips, mashed them with seasoning and horseradish sauce.
Then shaped them into discs and fried them until hot and crispy.

They are pretty good with a poached or fried egg too.


Thanks WW .... another lovely recipe for the files :clap :thumbsup

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby liketocook » Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:09 pm

Yesterday we had simple baked salmon with Cajun spiced sweet potato chunks and a chopped salad. Tonight it's Thai green chicken curry with rice and salad.

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby Amyw » Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:59 pm

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Halloumi, red pepper and coriander omlette with airfried chips and salad

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby herbidacious » Fri Jan 07, 2022 12:32 am

I made a potato gratin with creme fraiche, peas, faux bacon and emmental. It was not great though. Wrong sort of potato.

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby Stokey Sue » Fri Jan 07, 2022 12:42 am

I made a sort of Italian American chicken cacciatore in the Instant Pot. Not bad, slowly getting the hang of the beast, can’t quite get used to how little liquid is required in something that seals properly

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby PatsyMFagan » Fri Jan 07, 2022 12:43 pm

Stokey Sue wrote:I made a sort of Italian American chicken cacciatore in the Instant Pot. Not bad, slowly getting the hang of the beast, can’t quite get used to how little liquid is required in something that seals properly


Which model IP do you have Sue ?

There is a FB group devoted to 'Instant Potters' (instant Pot UK Community) with lots of enthusiasts and experts.

I am still using the one that PP got for me from CostCo (when I was recovering from my operation iirc :? :roll: ) It's quite elderly now and superseded by bigger and better models ... I am tempted to get one that does Sous Vide :thumbsup :oops:

Edited to add I used my IP to cook neck of lamb (and lamb heart ) stew the other day ...

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby Stokey Sue » Fri Jan 07, 2022 1:10 pm

I sort of followed a recipe from the internet, I think it would actually have worked better in slow cooker mode rather than pressure mode, the flavour and the chicken would have been much the same, the texture of the veg would have been better, there are a lot of mushrooms and peppers in a cacciatore

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby herbidacious » Sat Jan 08, 2022 3:25 pm

I think it's going to be leftovers frittata tonight. Potato, peas, onions, cheese...

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby liketocook » Sat Jan 08, 2022 3:35 pm

Easy one yesterday of savoury mince from the freezer mixed with pasta shells and grated cheddar. Cheese burgers tonight with salad and air fried sweet potato chips, might make a sprout slaw as well.

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby WWordsworth » Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:31 pm

I softened some chopped spring onions and garlic in a good slug of olive oil then stirred it through spaghetti.
Then added pepper, parsley and a spoonful of creme fraiche.

Served with a glass of kiwi sauvignon blanc.

10 minutes and delicious.

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby Stokey Sue » Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:16 pm

I had a second portion of the chicken cacciatore, much nicer now it has mellowed

I decided to try making polenta to go with it, I have eaten and enjoyed polenta in Italy but homemade hasn’t worked so well Tonight’s was good, actually made with Dunn’s River fine cornmeal, no great secret just used more water and cooked very slowly for much longer than I usually do - after about 25 minutes the texture suddenly changed and it was silky and delicious, added a little butter and Parmesan. Actually there is a secret - the recipe I followed said to do most of the cooking under a lid, which was news to me

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby KeenCook2 » Sun Jan 09, 2022 4:05 pm

Lunch was one of those unexpectedly successful meals!

We had some wholemeal pittas to use up and some rocket.

I made rocket pesto and instead of chucking it all together I observed the quantities specified in my recipe and bothered to toast the pine nuts first ... inside the warmed pittas with a lot of cottage cheese and some delicious baby tomatoes - heaven! We couldn't believe how incredibly moreish it was. (And couldn't have been more of a contrast to yesterday's inedible leek and potato soup with the weird duck stock I mentioned on the waste not thread :lol: )

Tonight we've got an Asda pulled pork roast I got if we needed it over Christmas - but as it came with a 24th Dec date I had to freeze it - so we're creating some space in the freezer by having it tonight, probably with some mashed potatoes as I've still got a load of Christmas potatoes left. Or we might do a Dauphinoise.

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby Sloe-Gin » Sun Jan 09, 2022 7:31 pm

I've never coveted an IP, but now I see there are 'multi function' ones. Suddenly, I want one!

Our pizza last night, using the dough KC2 recommended, was very nice indeed. We had leftovers for lunch.
Roast chook and accompaniments here tonight.
I'm trying to get my cooking mojo back so will be revisiting my database of 'old favourites'.
This is one is on the menu for next Friday.
https://app.ckbk.com/recipe/neww45783c0 ... d-tomatoes :yum

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby KeenCook2 » Sun Jan 09, 2022 7:36 pm

Sloe-Gin wrote:Our pizza last night, using the dough KC2 recommended, was very nice indeed. We had leftovers for lunch.

Glad it worked out!!!
Thanks to Amyw for the original tip :thumbsup :lol:

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby liketocook » Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:07 pm

Roast chicken legs for dinner tonight with roast potatoes, mashed swede, sprouts, green beans and gravy.
Your lunch sounds lovely KC2. :yum

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby KeenCook2 » Sun Jan 09, 2022 10:15 pm

Thanks, LTC, SOO much better than yesterday's ghastly soup :lol:

This was really good, would recommend: https://groceries.asda.com/product/mari ... 0308916229

We had it with mashed potato and oven-baked crispy kale.
It says it serves 4 and it definitely does - we'll finish it tomorrow.
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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby WWordsworth » Sun Jan 09, 2022 10:29 pm

Tonight was Thomasina Miers' Catalan fish stew.
I usually dislike fish with tomato but this is the exception, it was requested by J a couple of weeks ago so he finally got it today.

Minor crisis when I went to the excellent fishmonger on Friday.
Closed until 13Jan.
Humph.
How very dare they.

Had to text J to drop into Morrison's on the way home.
Most of the Tesco and Sainsbury's round here have closed their fish and meat counters, apart from Ashby de la Zouch for some reason.
Anyway, I prefer Morrison's for fish.

Served with HM faux ciabatta.

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Re: What's everyone cooking this week? 2

Postby smitch » Mon Jan 10, 2022 9:23 pm

I’ve just made a lovely vegan ‘beef’ and broccoli Chinese-style dish with fried rice. Was really tasty but unfortunately the handle fell off our large frying pan when my OH was washing up. It was welded on rather than riveted so looks like we’ll be taking a trip to IKEA soon.

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