Cooking Tonight #5

[Bren In Pots]

Pasta, meatballs in a mushroom and tomato sauce.

[Snoop Puss]

Butternut squash soup and bread.

[greenishfing]

I stripped the last of the chicken meat from the carcass yesterday and made stock, for the freezer, in the slow cooker with the bones and skin etc.

I think I might make the last of the meat into coronation chicken and have it with a big salad and bread and butter. There's a few Padron peppers left that we'll have as well.

Last of the mandarin jelly for dessert.

[Nicos]

Homemade fish cakes tonight with the rest of the green beans and a homemade coleslaw. Finishing off the creme caramel for pud.

[Florence Fennel]

Homemade meat pie from the freezer with peas and chips. Magnum.

[greenishfing]

Last night's coronation chicken was a hit with Mr GF. The recipe I use needs mango chutney as an ingredient. I didn't have any, so I used date and apple chutney. It was a good substitution. Mr GF poked at the chicken with suspicion, asked what it was, and then actually tried it. He ended up polishing his plate.

Tonight I think we'll have salmon risotto.

Strawberries and cream.

[Snoop Puss]

Bread and something with aubergines. There's the old reliable aubergine parmigiana but I've got a hankering for something a bit spicier.

[Nicos]

Risotto for us too GF, but ours will be lardons and mushrooms

diet ‘trifle’ for pud.

[Florence Fennel]

Thinking of joining himself in a Justa, but I'll cut the crusts off and make them into dainty triangles!

[Snoop Puss]

The something with aubergines will be what looks a bit like a Turkish number from Meera Sodha - baked aubergines, chickpeas and tomatoes.

[greenishfing]

Cheese and onion crispbakes, roast vegetables, couscous and corn on the cob.

Strawberries and cream.

[Nicos]

BBQ chicken thighs with bulgar wheat and a side salad.
The rest of the ‘trifle’ for pud

[Florence Fennel]

Lasagne and salad. Tinned fruit and cream.

[Snoop Puss]

Butternut squash hummus and salad. It's a huge squash (bought, I'm sorry to say), so expect to see it on the menu for a few days yet.

And seeing as I'm having a day off, I'll see if I can fit in cake baking this afternoon.

[greenishfing]

I think today will be scampi, potato wedges, and peas with a side dish of Padron peppers and homemade tartare sauce. (My supermarket has had an offer on fresh fish and seafood for the last couple of weeks. Mix and match, buy any 3 and get the cheapest one free).

Strawberries and cream.