Evening meal ideas

[southbucks77]

I love a food thread! What are your favourite meals to eat after a good day's skiing? I'm going to take a frozen lasagne and a pulled pork joint with me but what do you make in the evenings (if self-catered)?

Are you driving?

Yes. And we'll stop at a supermarket before hitting the mountains.

I wouldn't take pulled pork. You need to slow cook it so a pain if you still skiing/ après.

When we have self catered we tend to eat out every lunchtime tbh as starving on mountain.

Then just have bread/ cheese/ cold meats/ salad in the evenings.

A lot of Baked camenbert with the bread!

Then maybe a tomato/ bolgnaise one night, or escalopes etc.

We also eat out some evenings..

Bread/ cheese etcvis cheap even in remote mountain resorts

We take honey and marmite with us to go with porridge and toast for breakfast. And buy loads of eggs there also so large breakfast before we head out.

We fly though so I suppose you could take something's yourself, but tbh most things are better locally as fresh and alp cheese/ meats great

We usually try to stock up at a supermarket before heading up the mountain, as resort prices are eye-watering, but that's not going to be possible this year, due to a late arrival.
I hate self-catering, so food is dh's department, so he and the other blokes in the party divide evening meals between them. There might be a bourguignon, a risotto, a spag bol or chilli, pasta and so forth. Dh makes his in advance and takes it frozen (well-wrapped). It's still rock hard when we get there (flying). We always get an apartment that is ski in/ski out, so we meet back for lunch, which is bread/cheese/pate etc.. Sometimes, if we've ended up a long way from base at lunchtime, we'll just get chips at a mountain cafe and make do, but even that is hugely expensive.

You also have to time your arrival at the local supermarkets, as it's a right bun-fight late afternoon as everyone has finished skiing for the day. And they often close at lunchtime.

Double check what is available in the kitchen . Often an oven is pretty small so you might want to plan a few meals for microwave or hob.

If you are driving, taka an electric slow cooker, then can just chuck meat stock (from a packet!) veg in, it slow cooks all day and you come to a lovely smell of dinner coked in your absence! can just ring the changes with the stock and meat - so you could have curry, thai chicken/ lamb ragout etc... then just have with cheese/bread/lots of wine....

If you are going to France, then the resort delis/supermarkets tend to advertise that they rent out raclette and/or fondue equipment for free if you buy the ingredients there. I haven't had the chance to try this yet myself, but sounds pretty awesome and am sure would work out cheaper than going out for the equivalent meal.

Last year we ordered raclette cheeses and meats from the cheese shop the day before to pick up after skiing. It was a memorable meal.
I always take a bag of pasta and a jar of pesto in case of disasters- it saved us once when we were delayed and all the shops were shut.

Some resorts have fab butcher's / traiteurs that do rotisserie chickens, perfect to take back and have with rice and vegetables.