First Full Home Cooked Meal In A Month - What Would Yours Be?

pixie1

Well our container arrives tomorrow so our time 'camping out' with the bare minium is coming to an end - thank goodness!

During the last four weeks we have lived on convieniance food, take out and pasta. We had very few cooking utensils, a wok, a panini maker which can be used to grill and one small saucepan so its been difficult esp as we didnt have a fridge. (We couldnt afford to invest in anymore things)

So tomorrow is going to be like christmas, i cant wait to get my slow cooker out, my pizza maker and oh how i have missed my dyson!!

As Hubs has been amazing during this time as I have had a few 'throw my toys out of the pram' moments so I want to cook a lovely home made, from scratch meal and would love some ideas please?

For this meal, money isnt too much of an object although lobster wont be on the menu :eek: I just want it to be fresh, hearty, homemade and i want to be able to cook properly and if i get to use my lovely sc at the same time (oh how i have missed it lol) that would be fantatsic.

Food wise, i dont like pulses, we love spicey food and are big meat eaters.

Does anyone have any ideas? Whats your favourite sc recipes? What meal so you crave?

Many thanks

Pix

mioliere

Hi Pixie and congratulations on starting to get your life back in order! If you want to use your SC, then I would recommend a lovely beef casserole with dumplings; if not, it would simply have to be a roast, with all the trimmings. I moved to France in March and a roast was the first dinner I cooked here once we were sorted out (having had lots of quickie convenience meals in the meantime). We still have one at least once a week - even if the thermometer goes over 30 degrees!

CRANKY40

A roast chicken dinner, or beef and mushrooms in red wine gravy in the slow cooker...

Nordictat2

Roast beef, homemade mash and carrots! You just can't go wrong with a roast and the smell as it's cooking...really makes me feel at home

ubamother

It would be pie for me - lovely SC beef the popped in the oven with pastry with all the veg you don't get in convenience foods - I'd go with roast parsnips and cauliflower cheese. Enjoy, and do tell us what you ate!

OrkneyStar

Mine would be home made mince n tatties with carrot, onion and neeps (what those south of the border called swedes!).... can be done in SC but normally just do on hob.
Or perhaps home made spaghetti bolognaise with garlic bread.
Or of course a lovely roast gammon with potatoes and cabbage.
Mmmmmmm am hungry now lol!

charliee_3

oh god, it would be a roast every time, beef, chicken or lamb and ALL the trimmings, roast tatties, parsnips, swede, cauliflower and broccoli cheese, peas, carrots.. i'm a meat and 10 veg girl!
mmm.. mouth is watering thinking about it!

and i'd do a nice stew in your slow cooker for the next day...

have fun!

charliee_3

orkney star.. well done on the knitting but whats a boob??

mummysaver

Mine would be a roast dinner, exactly what I made after all our stuff had been in storage too!

If you want to use your SC my first though was a casserole, beef in ale, but if you want spice how about a curry done in SC, then some hm bhajees, chapattis, dahl, biriani rice etc, or a spicy chilli with tortillas and sour cream, hm refried beans, garlic bread, salad, assorted tapas, guacamole etc.

Oh I'm feeling hungry now! Let us know what you decide on and glad that all your belongings are arriving x

newlywed

Yep mine would be roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, bread sauce, stuffing, lots of extra veg, probably yorkies too

MrsCook_2

charliee wrote: »

orkney star.. well done on the knitting but whats a boob??

google knitted boob,its used as teaching aid for mums with premature babies