What are you cooking now?

[teamsaint]

A random desert made up of leftover stuff. Cherry and walnut pie, made with frozen cherries, crushed walnuts and half a roll of leftover ready made puff pastry, all with a decent sprinkle of sugar.

Pretty good, IISSM. Would have been even better with a good splodge of whipped cream, but we need to get to the shops for such things.

Boccherini cello concertos and a glass of chilled SB ( again) to go with . Yum

[cloughie]

A random desert made up of leftover stuff. Cherry and walnut pie, made with frozen cherries, crushed walnuts and half a roll of leftover ready made puff pastry, all with a decent sprinkle of sugar.

Pretty good, IISSM. Would have been even better with a good splodge of whippedcream, but we need to get to the shops for such things.

Boccherini cello concertos and a glass of chilled SB ( again) to go with . Yum

Even better clotted!

[teamsaint]

tonight, a recipe from the Guardian.
Aubergine Lentil and Tomato Ragu, with linguine.

Using fresh tomato and dried rather than tinned lentils, and popped in a little bit of leftover chopped bacon
Some Mozart overtures and a glass of red plonk to go with .
Yum !!

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/apr/29/terrific-tins-10-delicious-affordable-recipes-from-crab-fried-rice-to-sweetcorn-cakes

Some nice looking recipes ion here.

[Rjw]

Flat chips and mayonnaise

Accompanied by the Cure live at Glastonbury 2019.

[teamsaint]

Flat chips and mayonnaise

Accompanied by the Cure live at Glastonbury 2019.

Ah yes, they were pretty good that night. Not like they were in their glory days in the very early 80s of course, but good nonetheless.

Are you in Belgium at all ?

[ardcarp]

Do food and music mix? I prefer to take my pleasures (ahem) separately.

[teamsaint]

Do food and music mix? I prefer to take my pleasures (ahem) separately.

I like to have music playing while I cook. Not so much while I eat.

[cloughie]

I like to have music playing while I cook. Not so much while I eat.

Me too, ts. I cooked sausage and mash to Berlioz Fantastique (RLPO/Hirokami) yesterday evening! (Local sausages superb - should probably have played Monster Mash but maybe the Witches Sabbath was a good enough link!)

[Barbirollians]

I have been cooking a lot in lockdown . Some things that have gone down well have been

Fennel blanched for 5 minutes and then baked with olive oil , tomatoes and garlic with basil strewn over when cooked .

Aubergines toscana - aubergines salted and squeezed as dry as possible - fried with an onion until soft , stir in a tin of tomatoes and two chopped cloves of garlic , a spoonful of harissa and some more basil - cook till sauce like then stir in almost cooked pasta , diced mozzarella and some parmesan - then bake for 20 mins with extra parmesan on top

Salmon fish cakes - 250gcold salmon, 250g crushed boiled potatoes, two chopped anchovies , rind of a lemon chopped small , large handful of chopped parsley, half a teaspoon of cayenne pepper, an egg and 2 tbsp of cream or milk- chill in fridge till firm ,form into cakes , flour and fry for 5 mins

Today am going to make a fish curry.

Musical accompaniments have included - best of Edith Piaf , Padmore's Handel Arias disc and Erich Kleiber's VPO Eroica.

[Bryn]

A rather late breakfast of a 4 egg oyster mushroom omelet.

[teamsaint]

Mushroom and ( other) vegetable soup.

Brahms Violin Sonatas and a glass of Aldi vintage cider to go with.
Yum !!

[Pulcinella]

Mary Berry's Croque Monsieur, here, with salad; bread (white) made in breadmaker yesterday.
Lunch was Carrot and ginger soup (Covent Garden recipe).
I think that's the five portions sorted today (banana at lunch, too).
Bottle of Montepulciano d'Abruzzo already drunk; Times crossword completed.
Leighton (Orchestral Music, Vol 1) to accompany.

[Joseph K]

I just made something I call my concoction. It's based on a meal I made myself in my last year at uni, which itself was based on a chilli recipe I found. Today, it was thus:

I fry two onions, one red one white (or whatever colour a normal onion is) in lots of olive oil and vegetable oil. Add a whole bulb of garlic, most of which is finely chopped. Then one big red chilli, chopped. Then chopped coriander stalks. Then half a tea spoon of salt (in fact I'd say this was too little amount of salt, but since I'd made a meal the other week that had too much salt, I was being cautious - can always add more after...) a tea spoon of cumin powder, ground coriander, smoked paprika, turmeric, dried oregano and cayenne pepper, then however much black pepper you like. Then eyeball an amount of red lentils, I'd say I used around 150g, then the same amount of green lentils. Pour over around 1 litre of veg stock, bring to boil, then turn down and simmer. After around 8 minutes add chopped green fine beans, two minutes later add a tin of red kidney beans, a tin of black beans, a tin of chopped tomatoes (which in this case contained basil and oregano) and a head of chopped broccoli. Simmer for ten or twelve minutes more, and at the end add chopped fresh coriander and the juice of half a lime.

Serve with basmati rice.

Made this last friday - except lately, I've used tofu instead of broccoli. A few times before that it had come out as too hot, which was overpowering other flavours, so this time I omitted the cayenne pepper - which worked.

It was very tasty. (Still plenty left too).

We listened to Neil Young's Greatest Hits while I was cooking.

[teamsaint]

Mary Berry's Croque Monsieur, here, with salad; bread (white) made in breadmaker yesterday.
Lunch was Carrot and ginger soup (Covent Garden recipe).
I think that's the five portions sorted today (banana at lunch, too).
Bottle of Montepulciano d'Abruzzo already drunk; Times crossword completed.
Leighton (Orchestral Music, Vol 1) to accompany.

You lockdowners seem to be living the good life !,
We had half an Aldi Olive Ciabatta with the soup,
, as our bread maker expired a couple of years ago, and hasn’t been replaced.
Leftover cabbage and lentil stew for lunch, ( which is much nicer and less worthy than it sounds, ) hence the ight supper.

Hopefully everybody at Pulcinalla Towers is suitably fortified for a virtual trip to Elland Road.......

[teamsaint]

Made this last friday - except lately, I've used tofu instead of broccoli. A few times before that it had come out as too hot, which was overpowering other flavours, so this time I omitted the cayenne pepper - which worked.

It was very tasty. (Still plenty left too).

We listened to Neil Young's Greatest Hits while I was cooking.

i’m not a huge Neil Young fan, but Le Noise is a terrific album.
I heard it playing in Fopp in Bristol, and, breaking every rule in the book, bought it there and then. Good decision, as it turned out.