What are you cooking now?

[Joseph K]

It was very nice, team saint. Perhaps could have done with a few fewer toppings, and I would have liked grated mozzarella - not the store-bought grated stuff, but rather fresh (my dad, who gave me the recipe for the base, gets fresh grated mozzarella from an Italian shop round where he lives in Michigan) but never mind. I will make it again, soonish...

Your ratatouille looks good.

[teamsaint]

I made a pizza.

Was it good ? Looks nice.

Today, doing an oven baked Ratatouille.

Not done it this way till recently.
Recipe here.

https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/oven-baked-ratatouille-slow-cooked-courgette-aubergine-peppers-and-tomatoes/

Tried it a few weeks ago and I have to say it was really good, and very easy.
Prep time…exactly the length of RVW Symphony #4, ( Haitink).

To go with…probably a small G and T later.

Incidentally, one of life’s little mysteries, why does Aldi tonic in small cans contain aspartame, but the same brand in bottles doesn’t ?

Edit: actually, I increase the cooking time to about 75-90 mins in total.
Further edit: not a fan of parnesan, so used Grana Padano.

[Joseph K]

I made a pizza.

[Joseph K]

I made the meal as mentioned in #1245 & #1247.

Except, I use way more shallots, onion and tofu (And corresponding garlic, thyme and miso) and also added some fried vegetarian sausages and also, I fry the tofu before as well. Also, the onions and shallots are fried in quite a bit more than the suggested amount of oil. So there is much more of it and it is more oily but it is really really tasty! Miso is really what they call 'umami'. Because of all the shallots I like to use (rather than the mere two suggested!) preparing this takes bloody ages... but it provides meals for a week or more, depending on whether any of it gets frozen.

We listened to Pixie's Doolittle and some live Joni Mitchell album whose name I don't know.

[BBMmk2]

For tea today, MrsBBM will be cooking Kidney Bean Chilli. Very nice.

[french frank]

Pasta Toscanini. Lumachette with a standard tomato and onion sauce, added to which everything now getting very old in the fridge. Two rashers of chopped streaky bacon, a couple of spikes of tenderstem and what I could rescue of half a packet of cooked chestnuts which I'd forgotten about. Shall not add Italian herbs or Parmesan cheese. Might add some garlic.

To drink: one glass of Bull's Blood.

[I'll let you know ]

It was quit edible but in my excitement at just receiving a Christmas card from cousin in Australia I knocked over my glass of Bull's Blood, half of which went into my bowl to go with the last morsels of pasta. Other half went on my clean unbleached string pullover.

I think the Parmesan cheese could have been replaced with freshly toasted flaked almond, but that might have been a taste too many.

[BBMmk2]

All now in hand for a pichade for lunch, just the sauce to make. Shall bake a loaf at the same time.

Oh, multi tasking!

MrsBBM is cooking a mushroom risotto today.

[french frank]

All now in hand for a pichade for lunch, just the sauce to make. Shall bake a loaf at the same time.

[BBMmk2]

What a coincidence! Today the family has come round and my mum in preparation has made vegetarian and vegan chillis (my brother and his girlfriend are vegan). I tried both and they were excellent. Apple sponge pudding for dessert.

Isn’t it just! Dessert sounds very tasty!

[Joseph K]

MrsBBM, will be cooking a Mexican Chilli this evening!

What a coincidence! Today the family has come round and my mum in preparation has made vegetarian and vegan chillis (my brother and his girlfriend are vegan). I tried both and they were excellent. Apple sponge pudding for dessert.

[BBMmk2]

MrsBBM, will be cooking a Mexican Chilli this evening!

[cloughie]

Music for your aperitif?

https://youtu.be/2KOcCcaxUFM

[Joseph K]

Just made the Miso Stew (see previous page) and listened to Miles Davis's Filles de Kilimanjaro, Isle of Wight and the first two movements of Coltrane's A Love Supreme live in Antibes while making it. It is a time consuming and not-cheap meal (though it is plentiful, at least how I do it, there is naturally a lot left-over) but very tasty.

[Serial_Apologist]

Half an avocado "drizzled" with French Dressing (saturated, more like) and sprinkled with black pepper, accompanied by a slice of buttered Tesco's Superseeded Farmhouse brown bread* - remarkably nourishing for a simple supper: the other half I had last night.

* I did ask about "preceded" but only got blank looks.

[french frank]

... sounds really good. And broccoli a more than satisfactory succedaneum for asparagus

It's quite a small galette, so I shall eat it all. Tenderstem a bit easier to lay across the top, like asparagus.

A nice glass of gewürztraminer to go with?

I blush not. If I'd had a delivery from our local classy wine merchant, I'd have had their Château de la Mirande Picpoul de Pinet. Can't remember the year (2016?) and they're out of it atm. But as my last bottle has been finished it's a Coop Spanish dry at £3.80 per bottle, £3.30 with a member's voucher .

Add: Back in stock, 2019, £11.50 a bottle. I can have 3 Coop Spanish dry for that price!