To ask what's for dinner now the weather has changed?

[ElizaDee]

It's wet, miserable and cold today. So, I'm thinking of making a goulash tonight, I'm searching recipes now.

I love a soup or stew for dinner when it's cold, with fresh buttery bread!

What are you having?

I bought a huge pile of leeks at the weekend I will be doing leek and potato soup this week, so autumnal 😋

Just an add to goulash: it does have carrots and potatoes in it, if you want to make it authentic.

Pasta bolognese, might do roast tomorrow.

Macaroni cheese here - was delicious!

Omg this thread is amazing. It’s rained all day here and we are having slow cooker beef bourguignon 😋 with mash and green veggies! Classic cosy!

We were out all day yesterday, so didn’t sit down to eat until almost 9pm! So we had cheese and ham toasties with FIL’s homemade runner bean chutney and tomato soup for dipping.

All these recipes are just what I want to read whilst on the sofa under a blanket! Bring it on autumn 🍂

My daughter is 7 she is having garlic cream mushrooms on sour dough toast with grass on top..(parsley!)
My DH is having steak and ale pie with mash and carrots
My son is having chicken and mango flatbreads
and me...weetabix with warm milk and mashed banana just cos I fancy it and as a grown up I can!!!

I made a shepherds pie with lots of extra veg, trying to clear out the freezer so chucked in some frozen spinach etc. Half normal/half sweet potato mash with Parmesan. Purple sprouting broccoli that they were chucking out last night at the Co-op so was, I think, 17p. So blimming tasty and needed on this grim day! Had loads of annoying things happen so it’s taken the edge off all my frustration. Shop-bought sticky toffee pudding from Waitrose on the way home, also yellow stickered, plus jersey double cream. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s dinner because I’ve got puff pastry and will make the rest of the shepherds pie mix into individual pasty/pies and have probably with veg and gravy.

I made the kids are really easy chicken curry which they had with rice. I haven’t eaten yet but won’t be very interesting, maybe omelette or something!

Definitely no watery dishes with my slow cooker! DH made a chicken & chorizo stew with olives which was absolutely delicious.

@PInkHeartLovesCake - the alcohol in the white wine evaporates when you cook it do it would be fine for the DC
@zhx3 - how much stewing lamb did you use? Would this work in a slow cooker?

So not do!

I’ve literally cooked al afternoon for the whole week (all recipes from this months bbc good food magazine). Tonight was a chipotle chicken thing - really tasty. Tomorrow is a meatball with black beans stew, Wednesday sausage pasta and Thursday a chicken and leek traybake. Feeling very pleased with myself

We are having pasta with spinach pesto. (I'm having courgetti), & DD had hers earlier.

Tomorrow, probably enchiladas or fajitas (we have a couple of those lazy kits in the cupboard).

@Bunnylady53, I'm not sure how much lamb there was, I just told the butcher to give me everything that was left on the tray! Would guess around 6-700g, it made 6 decent sized portions anyway! It was stewing lamb on the bone so I had a nice time scraping the marrow out during dinner!

Forgot to mention I also put a couple of tablespoons of pearl barley in to thicken the stew.

It would probably work in a slow cooker, but my veg tends to turn to mush!

I had some ingredients to use up ( chicken thighs, Greek yogurt, aubergine and leek).

Oven at 180°C (fan).

I've made kind of a mustardy, creamy chicken bake with it:

Chopped leek, 3 cloves garlic (diced), and diced aubergine.

Added to an greased dish, along with chicken thighs, salt, pepper, and dried onion granules. Drizzled with oil and baked in oven for 20 mins, until veg was golden.

Then taken out, fat drained off, but juices kept aside.

Added 400g cannelini beans and 400g white kidney beans. Mixed crumbled stock cube with juices and ~200g Greek yogurt, 2 heaped teaspoons of wholegrain mustard and a little milk so I could pour it over the chicken & veg.

Seasoned again, then back in oven for another 25 mins until chicken golden and cooked through.

Its just finished and smells divine. Will be serving it with homemade bread.

Broccoli cheese, peas & veggie sausages

Was pie tonight, first in about 4 months

Yesterday, I had some pork/ beef mince that needed using up, so I finely diced some red onion and mixed that with some coriander leaf, salt, pepper and cumin.

Shaped them into meatballs, then chopped up some red and green peppers that really needed using up, along with a few mushrooms and threaded them onto some skewers, alternating the meatballs with the chopped veg.

I then made some chapati/flatbread by mixing some wholewheat flour with milk, melted butter and salt and made it into a dough.

I then rested that in the fridge for 30 mins, divided it into 8 equal portions and rolled each one out into a disc shape.

Then heated a small frying pan with a little spray oil and cooked each one for about 2 mins on each side.

Served it all with sour cream and salad.

The day before I bought some ox cheek that was reduced and browned it off in a pan. Used a glug of cognac to deglaze pan.

Then fried some onion, leek, mushroom and carrot til softened, then added meat back, along with 4 cloves garlic, (chopped), about 3T tomato puree, some cinnamon, star anise, 2 bay leaves, salt, pepper, cumin and thyme.

Then about 6-700ml red wine and 2 beef stock cubes. Brought it to the boil, then put it into a lidded casserole pot and then into the oven. Cooked it at 160°C (fan) for about 2-3 hours.

It was pretty tasty.

Just an add to goulash: it does have carrots and potatoes in it, if you want to make it authentic.

Authentic to where? I didn't know some regions put carrots😮

We had bean and bacon soup with sourdough croûtes tonight...

Spag Bol tonight, beef stew with y.pud and mash tomorrow then roast chicken dinner Wednesday to look forward to

Some really good ideas here! Awesome September thread

Steak, chips, peas and roasted tomatoes (have a glut of tomatoes in the greenhouse).
The vegetarians amongst us had fried eggs instead of chips.

DH knocked up an amazing vegan curry.
Yum