What Did You Eat And Drink Last?

[Teasel]

Carrot & coriander soup

 

[Lucycat]

Chicken, bacon, leek and cheese tagliatelle. A new recipe for me and surprisingly tasty. It was a whole chicken reduced in the co-op, which means there is plenty of chicken leftover for tomorrow. The recipe as a whole suggested far too much pasta than we needed. It said 100g dried pasta per person. I cut that down to 70g pp, but still wasted some. These are supposed to be diet recipes. Also it said 2 whole leeks for 2 people. I only did one, and that was about right. Would you really cook 1 leek per person along with other veg, proteins and carbs? The problem is that I probably won’t remember next time...

 

[Friday]

TDay

Coffee coffee coffee coffee

Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce (from a can! :inlove: bestest kind ever, the rings make it extra good), green bean casserole, yams, & mashed potatoes.

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Would you really cook 1 leek per person along with other veg, proteins and carbs?

LMAO :roflmao: ... Depends on whether they’re the half meter to meter x 6cm leeks, or the 10-20cm x 2cm leeks! (I don’t know why shops around here only seem to carry the huge and the tiny, but there’s very little in between. Once a year we get ramps, too :happy: Rampy Mashed potatoes are heaven. Looks like spinach’s soufflé but ...wowza, so not spinach’s soufflé! . Love rampy-tatos.

Regardless, it sounds delicious! Have the recipe to post??? :woot:

 

[Lucycat]

Once a year we get ramps, too :happy: Rampy Mashed potatoes are heaven.! :woot:

never heard of ramps - other than the ones we drive up. What sort of veg are they?

 

[Lucycat]

cheesy chicken and leek pasta.
Ingredients

• 1/2 onion, finely chopped
• 2 leeks, finely sliced (depending on the size! I only used one and that was plenty)
• 1 clove of garlic, crushed
• 160g/5.6oz of uncooked pasta (I used tagliatelle, and reduced the quantity to 140g - still too much)
• 600ml of chicken stock
• 4 tbs of quark
• 120g of grated cheddar cheese
• salt and black pepper
• 4 bacon medallions
• 1 cooked chicken breast ( or other leftover cooked chicken)
• 
  Method
  1. Lightly oil a deep, lidded frying pan over medium heat
  2. fry the bacon and remove from the pan. Put aside.
  3. Add the onion, garlic, leek and a little bit of stock, salt and black pepper and fry until translucent.
  4. Add the quark and stir until mixed in.
  5. Add the pasta and remaining stock, bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat and simmer for 10 mins.
  6. Remove lid, stir in the chopped bacon, diced chicken and cheddar until melted and pasta is creamy and velvety (a couple of mins).
  7. Serve and enjoy!!

it really was very quick and easy and this served the 2 of us, with some left.

 

[Friday]

never heard of ramps - other than the ones we drive up. What sort of veg are they?

Baby Leeks! (Leek sprouts). The only come out once a year, don’t keep whatsoever (the season is days long, commercially, but a little longer gathering them wild in the spring), & you use a big candy scooper or just take great big handfuls of them, and fill a paper bag.

You will also be vampire proof after eating them ;) They change the way your sweat smells for about 24 hours. Instead of garlic breath, it’s just like... wow! It’s rush hour and I get this whole compartment to myself??? :smug: Ramps.

They’re VitC Bombs, and loaded with trace minerals that counteract winter sickness, so in the mountains they’re still made into spring tonics. City people reeeeeally don’t appreciate the smell, but that coming out through your pores thing? Also cures a heckuva lot of skin infections, even several multiple-resisting big bads. In part because your skin ph changes, in part because of whatever the heck they’re made out of just being super anti microbial.

The TASTE, though is like garlic+champagne+happiness :inlove: So even if you aren’t prone to winter malnutrition, SAD, or skin infections? They’re worth eating on a Friday and having a weekend lie in! :D

 

[Mee]

Dh and I just had a floor picnic! Cup of tea, cold roast chicken, turkey and cranberry pie, pita bread, raw bell peppers and baba ganoush and grapes . Indoor picnics are actually I think, preferable to outdoor ones ?

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

Lots of water, some apple/pear/kale/cucumber/other various greens juice, a handful of red grapes, and a bigger handful of strawberries.

Next up will be some mung bean noodles mixed with a little garlic red pepper chickpea miso.

 

[Lionheart]

A California burrito with chicken and flavored water to drink.

 

[Lucycat]

Tonight was roast pork, leeks, peas, carrots with mashed potato and gravy. Unfortunately the pork was dry (overcooked to get the crackling crispy) the mash was also dry ( been trying alternatives to butter - today added quark and natural yoghurt) the gravy was ok ( straight from a packet!) and the veg were good.
I am my own worst critic. I hate it when a meal does not turn our perfect, although Rory was very happy with it.

 

[Teasel]

Mug of peas with ketchup

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

A No Bull veggie burger on a gluten-free vegan bagel with mustard, ketchup, red onion, and baby butter lettuce, a side salad with papaya poppy seed dressing, a spoonful of sweet potato casserole, and then 2 packs of dark chocolate sunflower seed butter cups. Way too much, for sure. Sipped on a cup of ginger tea afterward. May my innards forgive me.