What are you eating today?

[WWordsworth]

We are going away on Sunday so we're eating out of the freezer for the next few days.

I have just taken out some Lincolnshire sausages, which will be served with parsnip and potato cakes (need to use the parsnips) and some peas and broad beans.

If I have any horseradish I will add some to the patty mix, works well with parsnip.

[Suffs]

Tonight’s supper … oxtail stew and dumplings cooked in the slow cooker, with mashed buttered swede with lots of black pepper, and buttery Savoy cabbage. Just what today needed

[KeenCook]

Yesterday's supper for friends leftovers - Nigella's frozen pea, leek, dill and chicken traybake and the fabulous blueberry polenta crumble cake, recipe courtesy PP

[Kacey]

Made the Aloo Bhorta as seen in the Guardian. Have the Asma's Kitchen book, so followed her recipe for the 'cooked' version. Then followed the suggestions in the comments, after the original article, and made it into patties then fried in the same pan I'd fried the chilli/garlic/onion mixture in. No oil added.

Had them with a big dollop of dal. Absolutely delicious, will definitely make again.

[Stokey Sue]

Thanks for the review Kacey

I had M&S Spinach and ricotta cannelloni in two sauces, tomato and cheese. Quite ok but the vast amount sauce obliterated the under-seasoned filling, in which the ricotta was barely detectable.

[WWordsworth]

Great, Kacey.
J was looking at that recipe today so we will probably give it a go.

[KeenCook]

Tonight we had the Waitrose No 1 Boeuf Bourguignon - it was fantastic! I had a £4 off voucher for any Waitrose No. 1 chilled meal and the local Little Waitrose only had that and paella. I hope I get another one! It was one of the "complimentary vouchers" as a pose to the normal offers on 2 items. (I also got a bar of their No 1 chocolate for free.)
OH made a fab mash with parsnips, carrots and potatoes and we finished off with the last 2 slices of PP's blueberry polenta crumble cake with the end of the creme fraiche and a bit of extra cream.
Yum yum yum

Definitely up to a COOK standard, although we've not had their version of that particular dish.

[Stokey Sue]

Last night I made a cheat’s Catalogan fish stew, using up some bits - essentially a couple of tiny chorizo, spring onions, splash of garlic oil, smoked paprika , splash of wine, parsley and chopped tomatoes to make a sauce in which I poached a small piece of cod loin, adding a few stray cooked prawns at the end.

Tonight a lazy bad weather dinner, really chunky “triple cooked” oven chips, put a gammon steak (leftover from last weekend p) in the oven halfway through, added pineapple rings just at the end. Broad beans with it.

[PatsyMFagan]

Sue, I do admire your inventiveness with your meals. You seem to have a really interesting supply of leftover ingredients that you then use to create delicious meals.

btw: explain ' a few stray prawns '

[Suffs]

Supper yesterday was pork schnitzels from the farm butcher served with braised chicory and gnocchi fried in brown butter with garlic.

[Pepper Pig]

Stray prawns don’t exist here.

[Stokey Sue]

Stray prawns don’t exist here.

It was the last few in a pack of frozen prawns - too

One really was stray, I was puzzled by persistent fishiness in the kitchen last night, this morning I spotted the solitary prawn stuck to the basket in the sink drainer, maturing nicely. I had tipped the basket into the bin of course when clearing up but hadn’t spotted this one hanging on.

[Earthmaiden]

You seem to have a really interesting supply of leftover ingredients that you then use to create delicious meals.

. Agreed! I seem to spend my life eating leftovers which I would be hard-pressed to make into anything worth mentioning. I used to plan weekly meals for the family with no trouble but we always ate at the same time. Now I get absorbed in doing things and forget about meals until I think of them!

[Stokey Sue]

I do resort to supermarket suffer pasta fairly often - I think what’s here is highlights. Sometinpmes the leftovers are planned - sometimes half, the small piece of cod and the two little chorizo had been reposing in the freezer awaiting inspiration. The prawns were a bonus.

[miss mouse]

One really was stray, I was puzzled by persistent fishiness in the kitchen last night, this morning I spotted the solitary prawn stuck to the basket in the sink drainer, maturing nicely. I had tipped the basket into the bin of course when clearing up but hadn’t spotted this one hanging on.

That's grim. A classic form of revenge in US novels, the dumped girlfriend/spouse hides them in curtain seams, deep in fancy cars etc.

[Stokey Sue]

Ha! Better than revenge porn I suppose

My father visited the Irish seaweed industry the week before I took my first driving test, there was some well-composted seaweed in the ventilation system and 52 years on I still hold him responsible for the test fail

[Suffs]

Yesterday’s supper was griddled Barnsley chops, creamy mashed potatoes, buttered carrots, purple sprouting broccoli and gravy made from the juices inthe griddle pan
… and mint sauce of course

[Gruney]

Ha! Better than revenge porn I suppose

Wahey!!

[Smitch]

I’m starting to get my cooking mojo back now I’m recovering from my op.

For tea tonight we had scrambled shakshouka based on a recipe in Falastin.

On Saturday we had family round to celebrate OH’s birthday and I made a chilli in the IP. Went down really well and the rats loved it too!

Last week included blue cheese and leek IP risotto, home made pizzas and a veggie fry up.

It is good to be enjoying cooking and eating again.

[Stokey Sue]

That sounds great Smitch, good to hear you are enjoying cooking again. Leek and blue cheese risotto sounds like one to try.

Tonight I had pasta puttanesca, pretty much standard apart from finishing off the jar of anchovy and caper rolls, plus a few extra capers. Side salad as well.