Whats for Dinner?

[Booper42]

What are you having for Dinner tonight?

I have just got back from my second to last radiotherapy and ready to drop! Think I am just going to make pasta and sauce tonight.

Baked salmon, roasted baby pots, green beans, broccoli and (packet) hollandaise.

Chicken Kiev and crispy potato slices courtesy of Waitrose and steam in the bag veg courtesy of Birdseye. They all do it better than I would any day (though I did make last nights dinner from scratch - Jamie Oliver's Hit and Run chicken, which is as complicated as I can deal with on an average night).

Tortillas filled with southern fried chicken, cucumber, bbq sauce & cheese for most of the kids.
DS2 is back late from work so he'll have a sandwich with leftover garlic chicken.
I fancy hot ham & cheese croissants.

Had the day from hell so oven chips and bistro chip chop curry pot

@TrussOnABus sorry it’s the happy pear recipe.
www.happypearcourses.com/wellington

We had cashew and carrot out of their book!

Youngest ds cooked a delicious prawn stir fry, loving all the dc being old enough to join in with cooking

Last night we had the homemade chicken noodle soup leftover from a few days ago. We were both tired, the weather was appalling, and it hit the spot.

Homemade chicken broth (we use the supermarket rotisserie chicken carcass), chicken breasts and thighs, carrots, onion, celery, garlic, fresh ginger, bay leaves, oregano, salt and pepper. All in the instant pot on the soup pressure setting. The added spelt bowtie pasta and let it slow cook for a bit.

I will never buy canned again.

I hope you feel better soon OP. Good job finishing the treatment. I am amazed you have the energy to cook at all.

Lime chicken with coconut chilli pumpkin sauce served with basmati rice and peas. Pumpkin was roasted over the weekend so 20 mins tonight.

@JamMakingWannaBe

Lime chicken with coconut chilli pumpkin sauce served with basmati rice and peas. Pumpkin was roasted over the weekend so 20 mins tonight.

Just about to attack two pumpkins, any chance for the recipe? Sounds amazing!

Kiev's, roasted new pots and kale

Good luck with treatment, OP! We're on green thai curry this evening (with fish fingers for the heathen DC who won't eat the curry).

Beef wellington, potatoes dauphinoises, red cabbage, tenderstem. Then profiteroles. So good.

I'd love the lime & pumpkin chicken dish recipe too please!
So many amazing dinners this evening. I especially love beef Wellington!

@creepypastard @NalPolishRemover

It was delicious!

I had some leftover lime butter in the freezer from making this:
ginodacampo.com/recipe/chicken-breasts-creamy-sage-lime-sauce/

Tonight I just pan fried chicken breast strips in salt, pepper and a little garlic (so DC could have them "naked") and poured over the lime butter after cooking for DH and I.

For the coconut chilli pumpkin, I used "chunks" from the lantern, but "scrapings" should work just as well - maybe a bit more "watery". Oven roasted for maybe 20 mins with S&P, a large teaspoon of lazy garlic, same of lazy chilli (obv could use fresh) and maybe 2 large teaspoons of coconut oil. You could try it with coconut spray if you don't have oil. Mash into a sauce.

It was a bit of an "experiment" but it turned out really well. I didn't weigh the pumpkin but based on what I did weigh for pumpkin soup, maybe 200-250g.

You could blitz it for a creamier sauce and add just cooked chicken to it.

I reckon roast pumpkin with some coconut milk and chilli would work too.

Jacket potatoes tonight, with something on the side - probably breaded chicken for the meat eaters.

Has to be easy to eat at diff times dinner on a Thursday as we're all out at different times..

You're almost there!!!

Tonight we're having beyond veggie burgers with cheese (havarti for me probably), sauteed asparagus and apple muffins for dessert. Probably a G&T too!

Tuna pasta bake cooked my way! We are divided as to how it should be made. Half prefer a white sauce, half tomato sauce. I’m team tomato and as I’m cooking that’s what it will be. Tomato sauce with added red onion, red peppers and sweetcorn. Plenty of balsamic vinegar and black pepper.

Chicken enchiladas here, just the kit type ones but they were lovely!

Best of luck @Booper42

We had home made pizza. I had ham, red onion and mushroom and it was delicious.

@AtleastitsnotMonday I used to make the Annabel Karmel tuna pasta bake which had a tomato sauce AND a white sauce!

@NalPolishRemover @Creepypastard I know @JamMakingWannaBe has posted her recipe now but when I saw her description I thought it might be this one-pot meal, which is AMAZING and works brilliantly with chunks of pumpkin instead of the squash/cauli:

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/spiced-coconut-chicken-coriander-lime

Garlic and herb Spatchcock chicken with warm, seeded, crusty sourdough baguette. Mac d's for the DS though.

Broccoli & chicken gratin with rosemary roast potatoes & herby roasted carrots

Stir fry veg and noodles with soy marinaded pork fried up on top.

Sausage and ready made mash with broccolli

Sausage casserole with baked potatoes and churros for dessert.