What are you having for dinner? (wanna share your recipe?)

[Teasel]

Chana Dal

Ingredients:
3 cups Chana Dal
10 to 12 cups water
1 tsp Turmeric

For tempering the Chana Dal
2 tins Chopped Tomatoes
2 finely chopped onions
4 inches minced Ginger
16 - 20 minced cloves of Garlic (Used minced garlic from a jar as couldnt be arsed)
4 Green Chillies (Didn't have, upped the chilli flakes)
3 tsp Cumin Seeds
2 tsp Red Chilli flakes
2 tsp ground Coriander
1 tsp Turmeric
2 tsp Garam Masala
2 tsp Mango powder (Amchur)
4 tsp Methi (Dried Fenugreek leaves(I had frozen))
A pinch Asafoetida
4 tbsp Oil / Ghee
Salt
Fresh Coriander (Don't have any, but I might by the time this sucker is cooked)

Method:
Soak the Chana Dal for 1 hour, drain (mental health interrupted so mine got soaked around 24 hours)

Add to pan with water & Turmeric and simmer for 1 hour or cook in pressure cooker (to compensate for over soaking I halved the simmering time - mistake #2)

Before cooking the rest, gather and prep the rest of the ingredients, grate the garlic n ginger, gather the tomatoes etc. In another pan heat the oil, add the cumin seeds for a few seconds until they sputter,

Add the garlic and fry till golden, (As used stuff from jar didn't wait till it was golden)

Add the onions and fry till golden,

Add tomatoes ginger and green chilli, stir and add all the dry spices: turmeric, chilli, garam masala, asafoetida, amchur and coriander,

Saute till tomatoes cooked and oil starts to leave the side of the mixture

Add the methi, the cooked chana dal and it's stock, season with salt.

Simmer for 6 to 8 minutes (hahaha (simmer for 6 to 8 hours more like))
Lovely flavour. Wonder if I'm using the wrong lentils.... yellow split peas look like big chana dal don't they? :bag:

 

[The Albatross]

I’m still looking for a go to tomato pie!

I use a deep dish pie pan. Pre bake the crust...any recipe or just the prepared ones from the refrigerated section.

Slice tomatoes about 1/8 - 1/4", set aside. Depending on size I use about 5 medium to large. Adjust as necessary.
3/4-1 cup washed fresh basil, chopped set aside.
4 oz softened cream cheese or vegan/vegetarian cheese (I still have the cashew nut cheese soft spread so use that)
1/2 cup chopped medium white onion (Or I cheat and used the dehydrated onion reducing to about 1/3 a cup)
2-3 teaspoons minced garlic
1 egg
1/2-1 teaspoon lemon pepper

Optional but about a cup (I vary depending on what I have or is ready to use in the garden): Nasturtium leaves washed, blanched/wilted, spinach or kale
Optional as desired herbs or seasonings can vary to taste... I like chive, tarragon, sometimes in a pinch use some Italian seasoning.

Preheat oven to about 350 degrees.
Sautee onions or wilt greens and herbs adding all but the egg to the skillet on medium to low on the stove. Mix well making sure to combine cream cheese thoroughly. Use caution for consistency... you'll want to drain off liquid as necessary before adding the soft spread or cheese so as to get an "icing" type consistency (spreadable with a spatula). Set aside when al dante and when cooled "enough" beat in the one egg.

Layer in sliced tomatoes, then the spread, 2nd layer tomatoes, 2nd layer of spread... to desired thickness. Season top tomato layer with salt & pepper... bake in oven for about 25 minutes. Last 5-10 minutes, either coat/or dust (as desired) with panko bread crumbs and drizzle with melted butter (for browning) OR top with about a 1/3-1/2 cup of shredded mozzarella cheese. Turn oven to off... let pie remain in the oven til cheese or topping browns.

Serve warm

Note: Adding greens is totally optional, the herbs not so much. The resultant spread is sort of like a thick creamed spinach consistency except that it's heavily herbed. That's the "yummy factor"

I have a ton of variations for this and Spock's Russian cabbage pie... the fam wants em every other week like clock work now so one time it's the cabbage pie... the next it's the tomato pie.

I never write much down but I think I have the nuts and bolts of it. Next year I think I'm gonna skip the lemon thyme in the garden and plant more nasturtiums and tarragon - totally loving those.

 

[Mee]

Supper will be super easy tonight, tomatoes stewed with butter, basil and little else ( salt and maybe a mean pinch of sugar ) , on toast.

I have little appetite today and DH doesn’t mind.

We have some peaches and plums if we need more.

 

[The Albatross]

Gumbo, brown rice and corn bread. Gulf coast style and amped up with greens. Recipe's on here somewhere already. This time it's crab/red soup base, snapper, andouille sausage and shrimp with a mega punch of Caribbean spices instead of Cajun. God help where Dorian makes landfall. All "ours"/family are in the clear.

 

[The Albatross]

Lamb chops marinade in Indian spices and buttermilk... using the marinade to make buttermilk gravy... making a newer thing a lemon twist on the Portuguese rice I shared earlier.

This time I'm using long grain jasmine rice (about 4 cups cooked rice) then add 10 ounces thawed frozen green peas, wilted kale or spinach rough chopped al dente', 2/3 cup of fresh mint crushed (to release the goodness) and chopped fine. Add 2-3 teaspoons of lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste. Garnish with lemon zest.

This guy's video made me smile... sort of the recipe for the lamb BUT I used buttermilk (instead of yogurt) and used smoked paprika instead of chili powder and added coriander and anise instead of bay leaves. I been marinating mine since last night, though usually we grill... I'm finishing it off in the oven and aiming for medium.

 

[The Albatross]

Got the leftover rice, so cucumber salad, tofu/nori/ginger/miso soup, and pork stir fry over rice or topped with an egg over medium.

 

[nursenurse]

Last night, Sour cream and Onion chips. Because everyone needs a junk food dinner once in awhile. And potato is a vegetable.....Tonight will be simple seared scallops with a hint of garlic and lemon juice.

 

[Mee]

A really easy curry of potatoes and eggs. It’s not too spicy ( I loved it even as a little girl) and the starch of the potato makes it warming. It has been autumnal today. Enough has been made for tomorrow too.

 

[The Albatross]

Today is roast chicken with potato salad and black eyed peas.

 

[blackemerald1]

Tonight I dragged myself into the kitchen and made myself Parmesan cheese pasta with pepper. It's all I could think of and too easy. :)

r (Don't have any, but I might by the time this sucker is cooked)

(mental health interrupted so mine got soaked around 24 hours)

(to compensate for over soaking I halved the simmering time - mistake #2)

(hahaha (simmer for 6 to 8 hours more like))

yellow split peas look like big chana dal don't they?

^ :hilarious: thank you berlinda I needed a good laugh. :)

A really easy curry of potatoes and eggs. It’s not too spicy ( I

^What's the recipe Mee..? It's still freezing cold here so I could do with a new curry recipe.

 

[Mee]

^What's the recipe Mee..? It's still freezing cold here so I could do with a new curry recipe.

This is someone else’s blog but it has the recipe in it. My mother used the recipe when I was a kid, I make it by eye so measurements probably aren’t right.

I also usually use canned tomatoes. A good waxy potato is best. When o was a student I discovered frozen chips were cheaper than fresh potatoes at some times of the year and used those.

Vegetarian curries are a real comfort food for me, and I really enjoy westernised ones. No food snobby approach from me.

But ; I could live for days on end On dhal in winter, dhal alternated with vegetable soup.

 

[Mach123]

I just made breakfast for 3, blueberry pancakes and scrambled eggs. I only do the pancakes this time of year because it's blueberry season locally. I eat standing up after I "serve" the other breakfast guests/participants. My family. I eat standing up so I can cleanup the mess, no time to stop multi tasking. It's nice on Sunday morning, we didn't make church. Now my wife and I are in front of a travelogue playing on YouTube through the iPhone onto the TV.

Life is good. The recipe is on the Aunt Jemima pancake mix box. The blueberries are a whole story lol. The first ones I brought home my wife laughed at me and said "did you taste them?" I got mad at her for "shooting down my food aspirations. Then I tasted them and they tasted like nothing.

I said "what do you expect me to do stand in the store eating blueberries!?" She laughed at me. I returned them. I made the woman who gave me my money back laugh. I said they "are all yelling at me at home because I didn't taste them."

So now I was stuck with my box of pancake mix and no berries.

Lucky for me I walked into my bjs, a big box store and they had some and there was an open package. When I saw that I knew my wife had taught me a lesson.

The open pkg is the "sample" box. They tasted great lol.