What are you cooking now?

[eighthobstruction]

IBS somewhat troublesome again..... I take culinary pleasure where I can fins it, and cope with it.....

Remarkably, those instant noodle packs like Nissin Demae Ramen have become a favourite gratification. I cook half the packet in a 1-3 dilution of consommé or cock-a-leekie tinned soups to water, adding the sesame or spicy flavourings, then chopped cucumber and tomatoes, garlic cloves, and some potted salad mixed beans. Plenty of Lee Kum Kee pure sesame oil and other herbs.

A wonderful teatime treat.... but that still leaves the agonies over... supper. The garden birds often do very well out of my attempts....

....you have just reminded me that I have about 5Kg of veg' in the fridge that I was intending to turn into soup....apt as the world is very soupy these days [far more than usual]....and tofu to marinate....

[BBMmk2]

MrsBBM cooked up a great meal yesterday. A fulsome sausage casserole,from a Hairy Bikers recipe. Tasted wonderful

[Nick Armstrong]

the Hairy Bikers' book of veggie recipes,

Is that the Go Veggie or the Veggie Feasts one?

[Joseph K]

Is that the Go Veggie or the Veggie Feasts one?

It's the most recent one - the latter. I recommend it. I was going to make the stuffed corn bread yesterday, but in the end my mum made it - it was very nice.

[cloughie]

Currently have Jacob’s Ladder in the slow cooker.

[Pulcinella]

British roast in the bag whole chicken tonight here.
Amazing value at 3 for £10 from the Coop (not the coop!).
Possibly not as happy a chicken as one from Waitrose might have been, but it was 'reared with care by farmers who share our values'.
We will probably get three meals from just the one chicken: tonight, enough left-over meat to go into Coronation chicken or a risotto tomorrow, and a hearty soup from the boiled-up bone stock.

Some organic Riverford veg from the weekly delivery to accompany (and make us feel a little more virtuous).

[teamsaint]

Mid to high virtue level here tonight( I think) as I am doing JK / Hairy Bikers Carribean soup/ stew.
My local Aldi was fresh out of Scotch Bonnets so a little substituting going on, but looking ok so far. Will report back.

Can I remind forum members of the requirement to post listening and beverage accompaniments along with their dishes please.

Some Elly Ameling Schumann and a modest G and T to go with.

[Joseph K]

Mid to high virtue level here tonight( I think) as I am doing JK / Hairy Bikers Carribean soup/ stew.
My local Aldi was fresh out of Scotch Bonnets so a little substituting going on, but looking ok so far. Will report back.

TBH, the Scotch Bonnet just gets thrown in there - no chopping involved - but OK, presumably the HB know their stuff and it does something, but anyway...

Can I remind forum members of the requirement to post listening and beverage accompaniments along with their dishes please.

Some Elly Ameling Schumann and a modest G and T to go with.

Other than fruit juice with breakfast the only thing I drink these days is water.

[Pulcinella]

Tesco Plant Chef Veg burgers, cabbage (with nutmeg).
Wine Society Portuguese red (already drunk while doing the crossword).
Villa-Lobos 'Popular' String quartet (and the other two on the CD).

Well, you did ask!


PS: Dessert was home-made gingerbread (Mary Berry) and cream.
I'm not aiming to be slimmer of the month!

[BBMmk2]

MrsBBM has a secret recipe for spagetti bolognaise, which our friend, who lives alone, is in our support bubble, is coming for dinner. Her husband sadly died of cancer, two years ago.

[vinteuil]

Can I remind forum members of the requirement to post listening and beverage accompaniments along with their dishes please.

... a negroni sbagliato, and then - Elizabeth David's bœuf à la gardiane

https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/beef-and-wine-stew-with-black-olives-boeuf-a-la-gardiane

(one of my mother's regular dishes, happy nostalgia - and of course thinking of Mrs Ramsay's bœuf en daube in To the Lighthouse... )

https://www.theguardian.com/books/little-library-cafe/2015/dec/31/food-in-books-boeuf-en-daube-from-to-the-lighthouse-by-virginia-woolf

with saffron rice.

A nice claret, a 2009 Pessac-Léognan.

salad and cheese.

Listening? - Mozart/Lichtenthal il Ratto dal Serraglio (Die Entführung aus dem Serail "adatto al'odierno gusto teatrale", 1838)

Well, you did ask!

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[Joseph K]

I just made a mushroom bourguignon cobbler and my mum said it was one of the tastiest veggie meals that either she'd had or that I'd made. It was very tasty indeed. I got it from the Hairy Bikers' book of veggie recipes, which I received for my birthday (November the 6th) this year. It was time-consuming but well worth it.

Made this again. Pictures this time:







Music on while making: Tribute to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis, then the second disk of the John McLaughlin/Chick Corea Five Peace Band album.

Drink: water.

Dessert: Carrot Cake.

[teamsaint]

Made this again. Pictures this time:







Music on while making: Tribute to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis, then the second disk of the John McLaughlin/Chick Corea Five Peace Band album.

Drink: water.

Dessert: Carrot Cake.

Looks excellent, JK . The Bikers Caribbean stew was very good, did 3 meals for the two of us.

[Joseph K]

Looks excellent, JK . The Bikers Caribbean stew was very good, did 3 meals for the two of us.

It was. And that's good to know.

[Pulcinella]

Yes, that looks delicious!
I found the recipe online:

https://www.saga.co.uk/magazine/food/recipes/vegetables/hairy-bikers-mushroom-bourguignon

I'm pleased that Cheddar cheese is an acceptable substitute for blue cheese (it would be whether or not it was approved!).
I guess you make a substitute for the red wine component, too.

Tonight, at Casa Pulcinella:

Smoked salmon steaks
Wild rice and peas (frozen peas chucked in as the rice is almost cooked)
Broccoli

A bottle of Montepulciano d'Abruzzo

Delibes: Coppelia (OSR/Ansermet, from the big Decca Ansermet French music box)

Dessert: Cadbury's Fruit and Nut!