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

[nursenurse]

Found a lonely package of “Soup mix” at the store. Picked that up, made soup, and am going to try and sprout some of what is left. Lots af split peas which won’t sprout, but the odd chick pea and bean. Whatever sprouts will be a surprise...or a real mess...or a dud. Had a socially distant Easter pot luck with the other nurses up here, and our doctors have stayed up as well, normally they only come in from Monday to Thursday. A bonus having them here instead of talking with a quack from the city who knows nothing about the folks here and can’t eyeball them. So, I did a half deboned turkey, lemon brownies, hash brown casserole, and even made bread! They still have flour up here, although no yeast. One of the nurses had pizza dough yeast, quite frankly, what the heck is the difference....anyway, it was no knead and in spite of some misgivings, the bread turned out great!

 

[Friday]

Hoppin’ John

Fully Loaded Blackeyed Peas
Rice
Voila ;)

Fully Loaded Blackeyed Peas

Roughly equal parts (soaked or canned) Blackeyed peas & veg*, with a handful of bacon ends/pieces or smoked ham hock, a crushed or chopped garlic clove or three, and simmered in chicken stock to cover. A bay leaf, if you’ve got it, won’t go amiss, but won’t be missed if you don’t got it!

Veg = Holy Trinity = roughly 2:1:1 = Onion, Celery, Green Bell Pepper

Ring a pan/pot with olive oil & add chopped veg, bacon, & garlic. Stir about until translucent. Add in Blackeyed peas and cover with chicken stock. Simmer for half an hour to an hour, stirring occasionally.

Either reserve liquid for cooking rice in (Hoppin John), or add dry rice to pot, and simmer/steam for apx 20-30 more minutes.

Soaked blackeyed peas can stand rather a lot of cooking, before breaking up, but tinned ones go mushy in about an hour. So it’s one of those things that if I’m starting with dried beans? I’ll usually end up cooking hoppin’ John all in one pot, simmering the peas for an hour then adding rice, for another half an hour. If they’re tinned peas? I’ll cook the peas first, serve with a slotted spoon, then cook hoppin John the next day -or later that night- using bean-y bacon-y chicken stock for the rice, and stirring them together, later.

Blackeyed Peas
Onion
Celery
Green bell pepper
Garlic
Bacon
Chicken stock
Salt/pepper to taste
(Optional) Bayleaf

* You can get all fancified by mincing up some of the holy trinity all teeny tiny & sautéing separately until they just turn vibrant and glossy, and pan frying some of the bacon crisp, then crumbling it... to dollup out on top of the hoppin John or loaded Blackeyed peas. I almost never do... unless I’m avoiding doing something else, or my mother is visiting ;)

 

[ChildofGod]

pizza

 

[whiteraven]

I think I'm going to make roasted potatoes and asparagus. My asparagus is just about done for.

 

[Friday]

My Go-to Beef Daube | The Splendid Table

This is NOT what I made... but it’s what was in my head as I dug around the pantry, fetching things out. What I made is close-ish. Scaled waaaaaay back. To about a handful of this, handful of that, oh look! Summathisother. Plink. Plonk. Plunk. In the pot.

 

[Friday]

Lamb Koftas with Yoghurt Dressing

This!!! :D

.... :cautious: :shifty: ... Also this. Quick and Easy Flatbreads Which makes me super nervous. No stand mixer, but 30-45 seconds in a mixer is only a few minutes by hand. It’s just perilously near baking. Which I suck at. So I’m not holding out a lot of hope for an edible end product. Still? Worth a shot.

 

[The Albatross]

Shrimp/Mushroom/Blanched greens and barley stuffed peppers herbed grits casserole and garlic toasted sesame bread.

 

[The Albatross]

"African Chicken" (which ironically is actually Portuguese)… first attempt, recipe Here

Pairing it up with some tabbouleh and lemon ginger baby beets.

 

[12birds]

It's only 11am, but we're doing a big ham dinner to break up the boredom. Everyone in the house is excited. Starting on lemon bars and deviled eggs now, ham needs to be prepped and go in the oven by 2:45.

We're also doing yams, green bean casserole, pineapple casserole (old family recipe, horrible for you but so good), and mashed potatoes. I'm making yams and green bean casserole from scratch for the first time ever (sweet potatoes are STICKY), so hopefully they both turn out. I'm excited to get away from the usual dinner rotation.

 

[nursenurse]

Tonight is ordered in Chinese...from a one and a half hour flight away. Plus travel time to and from both airports....and travel delays....but sometimes even cold and congealed, msg and oversalted, food is exactly what is needed, and a socially distant get together is born.

 

[nursenurse]

Well I’ll be....the food was still warm when it got here, so very well packed up. Today will be soup day, I have some short ribs to use. Been conscripted for lasagna for our support staff, so I will make two for them and maybe an extra for us nurses too. It will be a cooking weekend.

 

[Teasel]

Actually cooked!
Need to look up more of her recipes, loved everyone I've tried.
Courgette, yoghurt and runner bean salad recipe | Angela Hartnett