What's For Dinner Today ???

jennyred

hi all - have just read through the entire thread - what fab ideas!!!
quick question - gonna make some of the sweet potato/butternut squash soup i keep reading about - do i really need to roast them first?? seems like a lot of work and use of electricity!! can i just boil them with onion and stock and then blitz?
if i do need to roast them first - do i then boil them as well???
sorry for all the questions but i have only ever made straight forward veg soup and you just boil all that together!!
thank you!!!
jenny

piglet6

Lunch today was sarnies, and dinner this evening was pasta with boursin, broccoli, ham and sweetcorn (all used up out of the fridge).

Mr P also made a chocolate banana cake today, to use up the 4 "past their best" bananas in the fruit bowl. Its gorgeous!!!

Piglet

P.S. Welcome jennyred - sorry I can't answer your question because I hate sweet potatoes and butternut squash so never use them myself, but I think I have read somewhere that roasting them intensifies the flavour, so it would probably be an idea to do that first... Hopefully, someone more knowledgeable than me will be along to answer you soon!

Tete_en_l'Air

Afternoon! Sorry Jenny, I can't answer you either I'm afraid, never dared buy a butternut squash because much as I love the name, I don't have a clue what to do with it!

Just popping in to report - Friday I caved and had a Boots meal deal, Monday I was off work and didn't eat at all for lunch (It's only at work I get hungry really), and today I've reverted to the old cheese sarnie and a mushroom cup-a-soup. I've also just found a Boost in my bag from the weekend so going to have that with a cup of tea!

I agree with the others P&C, I love this thread for making me confess what I'm having for dinner, do keep it up!

natsplatnat

Lunch today was a bowlof cocopops and rice crispies. Dinner tonight will be spag bl.... made with mince dragged out the freezer last night to defrost!! I must do that more often!!!

Tete_en_l'Air

Didn't get up in time to make sandwiched this morning, but I've brought some bread in to go with a cup-a-soup from my drawer

Olderbutnotwiser

jennyred wrote: »

quick question - gonna make some of the sweet potato/butternut squash soup i keep reading about - do i really need to roast them first?? seems like a lot of work and use of electricity!! can i just boil them with onion and stock and then blitz?
if i do need to roast them first - do i then boil them as well???
sorry for all the questions but i have only ever made straight forward veg soup and you just boil all that together!!
thank you!!!
jenny

No Jenny don't bother roasting them if you've nothing else in the oven, just boil them it will taste great.

Lunch today tiger roll with ham/mustard fruit and yog:D
Dinner will be roast pork chops pears and butternut squash (see I do roast it sometimes;) )

piglet6

Work today, so up early for Bixies for breakfast, took tuna pasta salad for lunch, and was a bit naughty and had non-homemade pizza for dinner this evening - yum!

Piglet

Beencounting

jennyred wrote: »

hi all - have just read through the entire thread - what fab ideas!!!
quick question - gonna make some of the sweet potato/butternut squash soup i keep reading about - do i really need to roast them first?? seems like a lot of work and use of electricity!! can i just boil them with onion and stock and then blitz?
if i do need to roast them first - do i then boil them as well???
sorry for all the questions but i have only ever made straight forward veg soup and you just boil all that together!!
thank you!!!
jenny

Hi Jennyred

Here's the recipe I use for my butternut squash soup:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/gordon_ramsay/article3349674.ece

No need for any roasting. I tend not to add the pasta at the end as I prefer to blitz the veg and each it as a smooth soup.

Managed to miss lunch altogether today, not a good idea as I don't function well on an empty stomach, but at least I saved the cost of a meal :rotfl:

Been

Beencounting

Well, looks like I'm having a lonely lunch today!!

Couple of days off work, so have been really slobby and just made up a portion of curry supernoodles!!! Not very healthy, but they are an occasional treat. They've also been sitting in the cupboard for quite a long time, so it's good to use them up...that's my excuse, anyway!

Been

Horace

Lunch today will be a cheese n beetroot sandwich made using cheese that has started to grow a fur coat:eek: beetroot from large jar bought in supermarket and granary bread out of the freezer which I had bought for half price because it was out of date.

Dinner will be 10 oven chips (I am so mean I count them out:rotfl: ) with some peas and the last turkey escalope again this was a half price bargain from Mr T.