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What are you cooking for dinner tonight?

222 replies

oxocube · 16/07/2002 17:08

I love to cook but I am so bored cooking the same old stuff, week after week. What are you all cooking for dinner? Can you give me inspiration

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Demented · 05/08/2002 19:29

emilys sorry to hear your dinner didn't turn out well. My DH's hobby is being made redundant or taking temporary contracts and having to look for new jobs all the time so I know how you feel. At this time the last thing you need is for a lamb dinner to go wrong!

I make Nigella's brownies and find they turn out well as long as you keep an eye on them. I haven't made them for a while but if I remember rightly I tend to cook them at a slightly lower temperature (I have a fan assisted oven that burns everything) but for slightly longer than she suggests. Did cook them once and they were burnt on top and just like sludge in the middle but when I adjusted the temp and time they were delicious!

Tonight I am making steak and guinness pie out of Jamie Oliver's new book. Made the meat bit earlier on the day when both DS1 and 2 were sleeping now just have to whack it in the oven with some packet pastry on top. The meat bit smells gorgeous so I hope it is a success!

bossykate · 05/08/2002 20:04

jasper, made the potato salad for bbq yesterday it was really good! thanks

really good marinade for lamb, say for 4 steaks/chops.

4 tbsps greek yoghurt
2/4 cloves garlic (depends how much you like garlic - i would do 4!)
A good handful of mint leaves
juice of 1 lemon

whizz together in blender. marinade lamb for at least 30mins, then grill to taste. an extra squeeze of lemon over the top when it's cooked tastes good.

we like this served with spinach salad, cous cous and hummous on the side.

Willow2 · 05/08/2002 21:40

A carribean inspired veggie stew - chuck garlic, onion, lentils, black eyed beans, tomato puree, yam, sweet potato, carrots, thyme, all spice, jerk spices, thyme, curry, chilli etc in a pot, add lots of water and couple of stock cubes, simmer for blooming ages. Eat over next few days. Fat free and v. nice if a tad studenty.

Then blew it all by making the carrot cake (dunno what came over me, had a bit of a Good Life moment) recipe that was in Junior (dunno what came over me, had another identity crisis and thought I was loaded and owned a fully staffed multi-million pound house in Hampstead)only to discover that the recipe made enough cake for three separate cakes(supposed to layer them on top of each other but had a bit of a leaning tower of Pisa moment as the entire construction was over a foot high)so ended up running up and down our road handing out cake to neighbours. So, if you ever think of cooking this, divide quantities by 1/3 and don't bother trying to achieve a triple layer cake! It tastes gorgeous - but would have been cheaper to buy the pastry section of our supermarket.

pupuce · 05/08/2002 21:47

Tried Jasper's potato salad from 30 July - it's delicious and DEAD easy
Thanks

WideWebWitch · 05/08/2002 21:58

Willow2, your Junior and Good Life comments really made me laugh

Enid · 05/08/2002 22:37

Willow2 - lol

thumper · 05/08/2002 23:02

Aimeesmum and tigger: Tried the taglietelle tomato and goats cheese recipe and the chickeny baked beany thing this weekend and both were delicious. THANK YOU! Chicken EVEN better tonight and still got four tubs in freezer for dd. DD loved the pasta yesterday even though she was eating nothing else and complaining of sore mouth, which we have found out today was the beginning of hand foot and mouth disease. Her diet today has been jelly, fromage frais lollies and houmous! Slightly changing the 'what to have for dinner subject', it was very reassuring to search for hf&m disease today to find info and advice going back a long time by people who are still around here. Thanks guys .

bee · 06/08/2002 11:04

Here's a good one. Put some peppers (red and yellow are best) under a hot grill until the skins blacken - about 15 mins. Then put them in a plastic bag for a few minutes - this helps take off the skins! Peel them and slice into strips.
Toast some ciabatta, spread with cream cheese and put the warm peppers on top. Fantastic.

Tillysmummy · 06/08/2002 11:55

Spaghetti with Feta, chilli, spinach and garlic, yummy. Cook the spaghetti. Also cook spinach, garlic and chilli (just one deseeded and sliced) in frying pan. Once spaghetti cooked drizzle with olive oil and crumble feta in also add spinach, garlic and chilli. It's yum with a salad.

SoupDragon · 06/08/2002 13:13

Willow2 : lol! I buy Junior if it's got a good free gift or if I want to torment myself with what life would have been like had I married a millionaire. As for the Leaning Tower of Carrot Cake - love it!

Willow2 · 06/08/2002 13:39

Ta v much - I try my best.

Fionn · 10/08/2002 13:20

WWW - am going to try your Thai Green Curry tonight! The quantities you give for the recipe (12oz coconut milk etc) - how many will that serve? I'm cooking 4 chicken breasts tonight for 3 of us. Thanks!

WideWebWitch · 11/08/2002 00:46

Fionn, have just got back from a long day: presume it'll all be over now! Hope it was OK, that lot should have been ok for three of you.

Fionn · 11/08/2002 14:22

WWW - yes, it was just the right amount for 3 big appetites and it was yummy - thankyou!

PamT · 11/08/2002 17:38

We're having courgette, tomato and onion bake (with cheese on top) tonight thanks to the huge amount of all three that we have just collected from our allotment. I'm doing some jacket potatoes for the faddy kids and some home made bread rolls (bread machine dough) to go with it. Then to follow we have got yesterday's chocolate courgette cake and a cheesecake (sort of thing) that I made with some out of date soya yoghurt. Its not exactly a sunday dinner type meal but who cares?

I've also stuck a load of tomatoes, onions, courgette, garlic in a pan to make some soup - we'll see what that turns out like because my culinary experiments often end up in the bin!

lou33 · 11/08/2002 19:49

PamT I have a really nice recipe for greek lamb with courgettes if you want it.

Eulalia · 11/08/2002 20:06

Just had cottage pie, all home made with the usual jokes about freshly picked cottages!

Demented · 11/08/2002 20:10

Nigella's seafood and pumpkin Thai curry. Yum!

MABS · 11/08/2002 20:56

Number 12,22 and 31 with prawn crackers I'm afraid. I'm c**p in the kitchen.....

jodee · 11/08/2002 21:56

DH's birthday today so went for jumbo size portions at TGI Fridays, yum!

lilibet · 11/08/2002 23:50

demented, which book is that in? sounds lovely, or could you post the recipie? thanks.

PamT · 12/08/2002 08:23

lou33, thank you for the offer but we don't really eat lamb. We tend to use chicken and turkey a lot with the occasional bit of pork. DH could quite happily be a vegetarian and the kids are all faddy anyway and not keen on meat.

Does anyone know a good recipe that uses cider (not too difficult please, I'm a very lazy cook). A friend gave me a bottle of cider and it is a bit too dry for me to enjoy as a drink but I don't want to throw it away. Any ideas?

soothepoo · 12/08/2002 23:02

PamT - this is from an old Sainsbury's Book of Casseroles. I can't stand the taste of cider as a drink (tastes like liquid headache to me!) but I really like this recipe.

Cidered Sausages

3 bacon rashers, derinded and diced (I usually used smoked bacon)
1lb pork sausages
2 onions, sliced
1 large carrot, diced
1 green pepper, diced
3 tablespoons flour
12 fl. oz dry cider
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

fry bacon until crisp, add sausages and brown on all sides, remove bacon and sausages from pan and cut sausages in half. Add onions, carrot and green pepper to pan and fry until softened. Sprinkle over the flour and cook for a couple of minutes, then gradually add the cider and Worcs.sauce and bring to boil, stirring. Replace bacon and sausages, bring to boil again then EITHER cover and continue cooking gently until sausages are done, OR, if you can be bothered (but it doesn't take long) do this topping -

Mix together 2.5 oz corn meal, 2 oz plain flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, and and pinch of sugar and a little salt. Add one large egg, 1 0z of melted butter or marg and enough milk to make a thick and smooth batter. Pour the sausage mixture into a deep baking dish about 8 inches in diameter and pour the cornbread topping over. Cook, uncovered, in a 225 C oven for 15 - 20 mins.

Demented · 12/08/2002 23:06

lilibet,it is in Nigella Bites, will post the recipe later in the week if you need it, feeding baby at moment.

Demented · 13/08/2002 11:25

lilibet, DH going to show me how to work the scanner later, he says I can scan the recipe in and then post it here. It is gorgeous! After nine months of pregnancy I am having a bit of a prawn facination just now!