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

[The Albatross]

The chia seed experiment went well (used it three ways yesterday cuz I made mister a batch of habanero corn bread muffins)… today using it in the rice and for tofu chia crusted stir fry tonight with mushroom cream cheese wontons.

Spicy Vegan Mushroom & Cream Cheese Wontons

 

[nursenurse]

I’m moving to a bigger apartment in the same building. Moved my kitchen stuff today. Came up with six corkscrews (I live alone), 4 different garlic presses, a dozen cheap paring knives from Portugal(local grocery store sell them for $2.00 CAD so I pick one up every so often) never mind the ones already in use, six kinds of rice, and all sorts of salt - table salt, kosher salt, coarse sea salt, fine sea salt, Himalayan salt, Maldon salt, and fleur de sel, some have multiple containers...Can’t wait to move fridge contents tomorrow, and see what repeats are lurking in there.

 

[Woundedhealer]

I didn’t read the whole thread so I hope I’m not repeating but really yummy, easy, quick dinner...

Pork chops, rice and cream of mushroom soup with garlic and onion ... takes like 20 minutes tops!

Add whatever your favourite veg is :)

 

[Friday]

Calypso Peach Pie With Blueberries

Former recipe redacted because OMFG :eek: something went horribly horribly wrong as it cooled & sat overnight. As in chemistry wrong. As in it became more bitter than bitter itself. Bitter beer face sucking on a handful of alum dumped on top of an unripe parsimmon bitter. Shudder. I don’t know why, how, or what happened, but if I can figure it out? (Because it was amaaaazing fresh out of the oven) I’ll repost the corrected recipe.

 

[nursenurse]

Broke down and made Tater Tot Casserole. I cant even move now.

 

[Marvel545]

Last night I made Prawn Pasta with Chilli, Garlic & Chopped Tomatoes. It was really nice & I enjoyed cooking it.

 

[Mach123]

Ok I want an Instapot. I have a pretty new crock pot and I just made beef stew. I love cooking in that thing but I was talking to a woman a couple weeks ago and she told me about it and I was like "Yeah baby." You are singing my song. So I found it at Walmart but I can't afford it or, I have a million other things I need more than that and I've been crock potting for years and I like it. My idea of excitement is watching crock pot cook. I'm not even kidding once I get it on, it has to cook for 6 to 8 hours on high and I always overfill it. So it slowly cooks down and at the end it bubbles. Oooooh. Everyone gets excited when they see it because they know there is going to be grub for a few days.

But from what I gather the Instapot cuts the cooking time by about 2/3 rds and I'm all for that. I'm always rushing around trying to get the stew made in the morning and though its always fine I really don't like leaving it on when I'm not around and I can't do the overnight thing I tried it a bunch of times and I just can't sleep while I'm cooking lol. Plus since I always overfill it it sputters a little or splatters. This is my second one and they both did this. I admitted I overfill it and I have tried to stop doing this but it's pathological I guess? IDK.

But the food that comes out of it is SO good and everyone loves it and its easy to reheat and healthy because it's meat or chicken and vegetables and that's it.

So my wife of course is going "you don't need that" and shes right. So my birthday is next week and I told her get it, she won't lol. Whatever she gets me, if anything, I'll return it and use the money to get what I really want instead. An Instapot LOL!

 

[nursenurse]

Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend, my daughter and I host a joint venture at her place. She is a vegetarian, so I am tasked with the pumpkin pie, cooking the turkey, and I am making sangria, more for the cooks, but we will share. My pie recipe comes from Chow.com, because for years I couldn’t find my Mom’s recipe, I knew she added more spices, which I did as well, but I could never remember her proportions. Lo and behold, I moved, and found her old ratty book filled with love and recipes, and hence her pumpkin pie. As usual she left something out, but I remembered from years of watching that she always added a bit of mace, even though it is part of a nutmeg, it has a slightly different flavour. So I will of course add that.

 

[Mach123]

I finished cooking this morning. I don't like cooking overnight but I had to. I ended up with 2 pots of stew. I've done this plenty of times. The main thing is I guess I buy a certain cut of cheap steak, London broil usually and the store I go to it's a lot of meat and fills up about half my pot. So when it heats up and gets ready to overflow I take about a third of it out and put it on the stove. Now I have two batches going and i experiment. I cook on the fly, no recipes, no measuring.

I had to get up a couple times last night and check the batch in the crock pot which ran all night on low. Everything came out great. : ) Now we have easy microwaveable food for awhile depending on how much they like a particular batch lol. When its really good it doesn't last. The trick is to cook once or twice a week. Not every day we never did that really. When we did it was only for short periods.

 

[Rani G2]

Chinese fast food. I regretted it in the morning.

 

[Teasel]

Just eaten some and it's lush - Steak & Kidney Stew. Never cooked with kidneys before but I wanted some stew and saw some kidneys when buying the ingredients, they're cheap too so I got them.

Growing up we sometimes had steak & kidney pie and I really liked it. So thought I'd try n recreate some of the feeling of that in a stew.

750g diced beef
400g kidneys
1 large onion halved and sliced
3 cloves garlic finely grated
4 carrots cut diagonally
1/2 a small swede diced
2 sticks of celery
500ml McEwan's Champion Beer
Beef stock cube & hot water, not much
Tbsp Tomato puree
Tsp Soy Sauce
Tsp Worcestershire Sauce
Tbsp or 2 Dried Oregano
Tsp chilli powder
Black pepper
Corn flour to thicken

Set the slow cooker on to warm up
Chop the root veg and lay in the bottom of the slow cooker
Brown the beef well and put in top of the root veg
Sprinkle over the oregano and chilli powder
Add the kidneys on top, I didn't brown them
Mix the stick cube with hot water, tomato puree, soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce
Pour the beer and stock mixture over everything.
Fry the onions in the pan the beef was browned in till caramelized add the garlic and cook a minute or 2 more. Add them on top of the meat and top with 2 sticks of celery chopped.
Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours, adding a bit of cornflour at the end to thicken.

Think that's it, may have forgotten something.
Served it with celeriac mash. Loved it. Plenty more servings left too.

 

[Mee]

Super simple, bread, cheese, fruit. I am feeling very basic about food right now.