What are you cooking now?

[cloughie]

Lamb Shank Tagine - based on James Martin’s Saturday recipe but adapted for the slow cooker.
Wine - aperitif Sainsbury’s Elegant Frog Viognier
With Tagine - Last Batch Shiraz/Petit Verdot
Music - CFM Smooth Classics at Seven - OK but good undemanding when I’ve not fished out a suitable CD!

[Edgy 2]

There's no way SWMBO would let me have classical music playing during meals.
In fact the only time I can listen to music without headphones is when I'm home alone, which is never these days as she is furloughed

[gurnemanz]

We love a dal and came across a recipe for a black lentil dal with loads of garlic in the Observer last year. We bought a large bag online and enjoyed the dish again this evening.
Recipe here

[Joseph K]

We love a dal and came across a recipe for a black lentil dal with loads of garlic in the Observer last year. We bought a large bag online and enjoyed the dish again this evening.
Recipe here

Looks very good! First time I've encountered a recipe where I wouldn't increase the amount of garlic that goes in.

[vinteuil]

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

... a campari soda, and then, to mark our wedding anniversary, we cooked

a pork tenderloin with mushrooms and marsala

https://www.seasonsandsuppers.ca/skillet-pork-medallions-mushroom-marsala-sauce/

with french beans and baby potatoes

to go with : an alsace pinot gris, heimberger 2018 cave de beblenheim

Nice cheeses to follow

Listening? - Christopher Simpson [1605-1669] The Four Seasons, Sirius Viols

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01L2ZSFVC

Well, you did ask!

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[cloughie]

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... a campari soda, and then, to mark our wedding anniversary we cooked

a pork tenderloin with mushroom and marsala

https://www.seasonsandsuppers.ca/skillet-pork-medallions-mushroom-marsala-sauce/

with french beans and baby potatoes

to go with : an alsace pinot gris, heimberger 2018 cave de beblenheim

Nice cheeses to follow

Listening? - Christopher Simpson [1605-1669] The Four Seasons, Sirius Viols

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01L2ZSFVC

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Looks good vints - Happy Anniversary

[french frank]

Nice cheeses to follow

What do you mean: "Nice cheeses"? What cheeses?

I had a wedge of Cabrales after my pasta with tomato sauce (w chopped bacon and black olives), and a glass of manzanilla with the cheese (but just a c or g chardonnay w the pasta).

Listened to: nothing - don't like mixing music with cooking/eating. Hope that doesn't disqualify me from posting.

Happy Anniversary, monsieur, madame!

[vinteuil]

What do you mean: "Nice cheeses"? What cheeses?

... well, there was a manchego, a camembert, a comté, and a stilton. Nothing poncey, though - it all came from our local mini-tesco.

When the full-blown brexit happened I was seriously worried that forriner cheeses might be unavailable/ ridiculously expensive. As far as I can see cheeses are still getting through...


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[french frank]

... well, there was a manchego, a camembert, a comté, and a stilton. Nothing poncey, though - it all came from our local mini-tesco.

When the full-blown brexit happened I was seriously worried that forriner cheeses might be unavailable/ ridiculously expensive. As far as I can see cheeses are still getting through...

I'm a bit stuck for French cheeses other than supermarket - though I think the top range Coop have been pretty good - not been in lately to check.

But our Spanish deli has about five Spanish cheeses, of which I regularly have manchego, cabrales and valdeon, with their dressed mixed olives. Not French, but actually quite addictive. And with a glass of manzanilla … !!! [NB must look for a sherry emoji ]

[vinteuil]

And with a glass of manzanilla … !!! [NB must look for a sherry emoji ]

... ectually, we don't even have emojii for red or white wine. And as for spiritueux...

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[eighthobstruction]

....I'm cooking up a withering put down....

[french frank]

... ectually, we don't even have emojii for red or white wine. And as for spiritueux...

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It's actually quite hard to make them small enough and also well defined. Most of ours were pinched from our previous home - surprised we haven't had the *** lawyers after us I'll see if I can make the sherry emoji a bit clearer - as it is it's bigger than the other beverages and a bit fainter!

[Joseph K]

Just made the Hairy Bikers' Caribbean Vegetable Soup - though in fact it was eaten more like a stew or curry: with basmati rice. Absolutely delicious. Highly recommended. Loads of vegetables to cut up - I almost ran out of chopping-board space - and for a moment I wondered if there was too much veg to fit in the casserole dish, but once they'd been frying (in coconut oil) for ten or so minutes, of course they reduce. Time-consuming cutting up all those veg but otherwise straight-forward to make and a great discovery - the Caribbean spice mix and Allspice being new to me.

Made this again - and added some fried smoked tofu to it.

Radiohead's Amnesia and Kid A while I cooked. Water to drink and my sister's delicious fruit cake for dessert.

[vinteuil]

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dopff crémant d' alsace

then

roast chicken, pommes dauphinoises
white wine : pecorino d' abruzzo

green salad

manchego, ossau-iraty, stilton

and to listen :

Valerie Tryon - Busoni : Visionary

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00000JC8J

I want the fifth of his 1923 Fünf kurze Stücke zur Pflege des polyphonen Spiels auf dem Pianoforte BV296 ( Adagio (after Mozart's Gesang von Zwei geharnischten Männer from Die Zauberflöte)) to be played at my funeral...

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[HighlandDougie]

Crapaud dans le trou (as we Scots like to call toad-in-the-hole)

Batter made with half milk/half pale ale

Co-op Cumberland sossidges (definitely at the end of their healthy "use by" life)

To be accompanied by Heinz 5 Beans, delicately heated

Apéro: glass of Californian Chardonnay (with a generous slug of crème de mûres)

Drink with: err ... something vinous, white and Italian from the Wine Society

Music: Ben Grosvenor in the two Chopin PCs, with one of the local bands, conducted by the pixie-looking but formidably talented Elim Chan

Oops, may have overdone the crème de mûres, hic!