What's everyone cooking this week? 2

[KeenCook2 Profile]

Ha, Kacey's recipes were ace, it was ours that was duff

[liketocook Profile]

Ha, Kacey's recipes were ace, it was ours that was duff

Whoops sorry

[halfateabag Profile]

We certainly have had our fill of over indulgence.... Not much turkey left now..... I will probably add some to some excess of cream with some mushrooms for tomorrows supper. Over Christmas I picked up some very lean supermarket pork and used Lizzy Davids pork to taste like wild boar..... We had a portion each and the rest went in the DF as I knew we had enough stuff in the fridge that would need eating up. It will go well with some polenta (thanks Rocky) I forget about P. sometimes and it can be left to 'set' and then sliced up and used as a topping for casserole etc. and crisped up under the grill.

I too, have most of a large cauli. that will need to be used fairly soon. I also have cheese so may well do myself cauli cheese and something else for OH.

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

I do like cauliflower.

In my younger days, I did a veggie casserole bake = cauliflower, potato, broccoli, whole boiled eggs. Pour over bechamel white sauce, and grated cheese. Top with slices of tomato.
Bake.

I never make it any more, as Tony was decidedly unimpressed.

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I'd never thought of a vegetable egg mornay despite having had most adaptations of veg, cheese and white or Bechamel sauce! As mentioned on the chat thread, I'm planning to use up cauli, leeks, milk etc in something like that today - I'll be adding hard boiled egg!

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

Goforit!
I used to love the dish because of the eggs. Mind you, I adore all things with egg.

[Kacey Profile]

I was looking at a cauliflower curry recipe from Mowgli's Street Food cookbook. You add eggs which have been boiled then fried to the sauce at the end. Went with a different recipe in the end but the egg one will be made soon.

[Amyw Profile]

I was going to say I really like cauliflower in a curry. The sponginess of the florets works really well in absorbing the flavours

[liketocook Profile]

I've got a notion for cauliflower now.
Bit of a cooking session today. I made a shepherd's pie for tonight's dinner with remains of Saturday's lamb and a some for the freezer. I also made a spinach & ricotta/tomato veg lasagne for tomorrow in my my new deep enamel baking dish, it's a monster!

[RockyBVI Profile]

Curried cauliflower cheese sounds good!

I’m never sure about eggs in béchamel dishes but I adore eggs so should try again.

Gill - we have been eating very heartily to say the least! Thankfully we have either had long days skiing or long walks.

On Sunday evening we had shredded sprouts and pancetta linguine with lots of broccoli. Yesterday we had a really lovely vegetable soup for lunch and dinner was grilled chicken in a made up marinade with salad.

At home all day today as we are working so lunch will be bread cheese and bits. Dinner will either be a spicy curry of some sort or takeaway pizza (OH is very keen!)

[Badger's Mate Profile]

Having been entertained somewhat excessively over Christmas it has been a relief to reduce consumption and increase veg intake this week. Back to porridge for breakfast, veg soup & bread for lunch and sensible portions of dinner. We had our 'Christmas' goose on Sunday, with the usual sprouts, red cabbage, parsnips, peas & roasties. In fact as it was just the two of us, we cooked half the goose and froze the other half, probably for Easter. Consequently there was cold goose with bubble, HM coleslaw & pickles last night. The current batch of soup is leek & potato, the next ones will be beetroot, then squash, bean & corn. Tea tonight will be squash & sage risotto. There will be bacon & parsnip pasta later in the week and recent meals included mince & mash. Might have fish fingers with crusty bread & mushy peas on Friday, the plan is leek bake on Saturday, braised pheasant Sunday (leftovers with bubble & pickles Monday).

[WWordsworth Profile]

Last night we had an amazing oxtail stew, served with sauteed leeks, steamed cauliflower and a parnsip, potato and horseradish patty each.

Tonight is chicken thighs in Madhur's lemon and coriander sauce, with rice and Gujarati green beans.
And no alcohol

My clothes seem to have shrunk in the last month.

[KeenCook2 Profile]

My clothes seem to have shrunk in the last month.

Funny you should say that, seems to have happened to mine too!

I think we're going to get take away pizza tonight from my friend's son's joint as DS1, who is currently here, hasn't tried them yet. Lunch was omelette with scrumptious left-over roast veg from last night, followed by a pumpkin bread muffin I finally got round to making up a box of Trader Joe's Pumpkin Bread mix a friend of mine from New York brought when she visited some years ago!

They are yummy

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Cauliflower here too
I roasted most of the white florets with a touch of spice, mainly fennel at the weekend and had some with a harissa marinated mackerel fillet cooked alongside and jazzed up couscous

The leftover cauliflower and couscous was eaten with falafel the next day

Tonight I fished a portion of Chetna’s black eye bean and mushroom curry out of the freezer and made a thoran (spicy Kerala cabbage and carrot stir fry dish) using the rosette of stalks and leaves in place of the cabbage, cooking slightly longer. Definitely a thing to do. I had some basmati rice with it.

This is the recipe but ignore the serving instructions, in Kerala these dry veg dishes are served as one of several dishes on a thali ( or as several dishes to share) generally with a dal that provides the gravy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/dry_ ... bage_71527

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

Last night we had an amazing oxtail stew, served with sauteed leeks, steamed cauliflower and a parnsip, potato and horseradish patty each.

Did you follow a recipe for your Oxtail stew WW ? I usually add the normal veg (carrots and onions) and a handful of dried soup/stew mix .... also interested in the 'parsnip, potato and horseradish patty'

TIA

[Earthmaiden Profile]

I like the idea of that recipe, Sue. I could tweak it to my liking. Does anyone know if supermarkets sell coconut flesh?

[Pampy Profile]

Morrisons sells frozen, grated coconut flesh.

[Earthmaiden Profile]

Thank you Pampy. I'll have a look.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

I like the idea of that recipe, Sue. I could tweak it to my liking. Does anyone know if supermarkets sell coconut flesh?

Mine comes frozen from most supermarkets and many small shops

It’s grated and in an ideal world I’d prefer it a bit more coarsely shredded, but it tastes fine

The other changes I made to the thoran recipe was to replace the cumin with kalonji aka nigella seed as I’m still not enjoying cumin.

[Earthmaiden Profile]

That sounds nice. I'd omit the cumin and curry leaves so would gradually try other flavours (maybe not authentic but more to my taste).