What are you eating today?

[KeenCook]

French Onion Soup https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... onion-soup

It was excellent

miss mouse, I don't recall seeing a lobster bisque in the M & S I was at, I'm afraid, but it's not a specialist food store, just a reasonably ok dept in the Hammersmith shop.

[Earthmaiden]

I went out with friends for a pub lunch. I had mushroom linguine which was very nice but very filling (it came with salad and small rounds of garlic bread). Most of the group had pudding but I didn't. Tonight I made cauliflower soup - with rather odd ingredients as the local Coop didn't appear to sell stock or gravy but did sell Itsu 'broth for ramen'. Very nice actually but not cheap.

[Amber]

I went out with friends for a pub lunch. I had mushroom linguine which was very nice but very filling (it came with salad and small rounds of garlic bread). Most of the group had pudding but I didn't. Tonight I made cauliflower soup - with rather odd ingredients as the local Coop didn't appear to sell stock or gravy but did sell Itsu 'broth for ramen'. Very nice actually but not cheap.

Very interesting. I’ve never had rounds of garlic bread. Or squares, or stars, or hearts. But what a great idea . And the off cuts could always be used to make garlic breadcrumbs for broccoli etc. Tasty.

[Earthmaiden]

It was slices of a baguette shaped loaf!

[Badger's Mate]

Tonight we’ll be having pasta with a sausage and carrot sauce. I only mention it because it’s a recipe from an old Sainsbury’s booklet, a recent topic.

[Stokey Sue]

Patricia Lousada’s recipe BM! Haven’t made that in a very long time

[Badger's Mate]

Yes, that’s the one! Been a staple here for ages; our nieces loved it, will try it out on the great-nieces if the opportunity arises.

[Suffs]

Yesterday we roasted half a small piri piri chicken from the farm shop … it was ok but not really one I’m tempted to buy again. We ate it with tinned sweetcorn and oven chips.

[WolfGirl]

Last night we had cod, chorizo, orzo and red peppers.
Tonight is an Asian beef noodle bowl topped with a fried egg.

[herbidacious]

My roasted pumpkin (roasted in smoked oil) has morphed into a using-stuff-up smoky trofie pasta gratin/bake: trofie, faux smoked bacon, sweetcorn, provolone piccante, home-smoked cheddar, a little double cream, a little home-smoked butter, chipotle flakes, smoked garlic, sage, black pepper.

[Stokey Sue]

I got a couple of chicken legs from the butcher so did a harissa chicken traybake with cauli, small potatoes andpreserved lemon. Nice the leftovers will be at least one more dinner of course.

I also got a bag of chicken carcasses which I browned in the oven and which are now making stock overnight in the slow cooker

Total prep time about 15 minutes.
Time spent removing schmaltz from the kitchen and equipment about 35 minutes so far

[Badger's Mate]

It’s like Christmas. Time to roast a goose, maybe 3-4 hours. Time to remove goose grease from everything (crockery, cutlery, utensils, bakeware, worktops, walls, clothes, oven), 3-4 weeks…

[Suffs]

Yesterday’s supper was a shin of beef casserole in the slow cooker with herby dumplings and runner beans picked fresh from the garden yesterday!

[oat]

Tonight is battered cod, chips and peas.
Fish will be fried in sunflower oil, chips fried in lard

[Gruney]

Sounds great, Suffs. Tonight is part two of an aubergine, apricot, prune and chorizo stew. Just the job after a couple of early doors Friday swifties.

[WolfGirl]

We have fish, chips and peas tonight too. The cod is described as lightly dusted (!) fillets and both they and the chips will be cooked in the oven.
I might zhuzh up the peas with some shallots cooked in butter and some mint.

[oat]

WolfGirl your meal sounds a lot healthier then what I'm cooking J but he insists on fried.
I will probably have a jacket potato with tuna, I'm trying to be 'heart healthy'
We have a lot of mint in the garden but I'm guilty of admiring it as I pass and not really doing anything with it

[Badger's Mate]

I think this is all the M&S fresh soup range, but the availability depends upon the store.

https://www.marksandspencer.com/food/l/ ... e-by-aisle

We happened to be going to Saint Evenage today, the newish M&S is massive, having taken over the Debenhams store, which itself wasn’t that old when they folded.

[Pepper Pig]

I was at the London Colney M&S yesterday. The food hall is fantastic and they’re updating it!

[KeenCook]

I also got a bag of chicken carcasses which I browned in the oven and which are now making stock overnight in the slow cooker

Sue, that's interesting, I have a carcass in the freezer that I want to use - how did you brown it in the oven? I always make stock in the oven anyway, as I prefer to minimise the smell of the stock cooking.

Last night we had a delicious chickpea, cumin and BNS dish. You roast the BNS and make a sauce of OO, veg stock, chickpeas, cumin seeds, chilli and spring onions (we didn't have any so used a shallot). Nothing is fried, the sauce is boiled.
It's basically a side dish from Dennis Cotter's Paradiso Seasons, but we had it over some left over polenta from the previous day.