The All New Bang on Trend Cookbook Challenge 2018

caronc

Lolly_willowes wrote: »

Ohhh I love gravalax but I'm staying away from anything that makes large amounts for a little while. I'm trying to get into use up mode myself from the freezer but I have fresh stuff to use before it goes bad first.

I have a houseful over Easter so suspect it will all get snaffled:)

olgemama

We love a boiled ham in our house! I never do anything like what you've made with it though Lolly.We'll have it with veg and cauliflower cheese the first night, then a salad and jacked potato, then with chips and fried egg.
Any left over I do a quick blitz in the blender and freeze in portions for topping homemade pizza.

New recipe I made last week, that was delicious and I shall make again, from BBC Good Food Website - Smoky Sausage Casserole.

Lolly_willowes

Olgemama that sounds lovely! That also sounds like a good way to use a ham

Lolly_willowes

I had a friend round last night and it was wonderful to get away from ham for the night. I made three new to me recipes. A spiced salmon that I baked instead of grilled from madhur jaffrey curry easy. It used Dijon mustard to coat the salmon along with other spices and was delicious. This was served with rice, yoghurt and a kale, leek, mushroom and pea subji from the new vegan column from the guardian. I felt slightly mean serving it with salmon but it was lovely also and shall be made again. Then for dessert I made a chocolate orange marbal cake by ruby tandoh that was also on the guardian. It was meant to have icing but I couldn't be bothered. I think I also left it in the oven for a couple of minutes longer than it should have been. It was slightly dryer than I like my cakes to be but was still really yummy and my friend told me to stop being a perfectionist about my damn cakes as we ate half of it in one sitting.

olgemama

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I shall be checkiing out the guardian columns for recipes! They sound good.

Pollycat

Today I'm making Chicken Parmentier from Rick Stein's Long Weekends (Bordeaux).
All prepped and part cooked - carrots, shallots, celery, tomatoes all done. Just need to reheat then add cooked chicken, olives and parsley.
Mash already done, need to add cream and then assemble before putting in the oven. I've decided not to add the egg yolks to the mash.

It's a sort-of fancy shepherd's pie but with cooked chicken...IYSWIM. :huh:

Lolly_willowes

So I hope no one minds this here but if you use the kindle app or a kindle at all if you check out amazons best seller list in food and drink today they literally have at least a dozen cookbooks at 99p atm. most of these have been over the £10 on kindle as I've had my eye on a few.
Indian cookbooks, Diana Henry, thomasina miers plus lots more including a few veggie and vegan cookbooks.
I thought it might be of interest to fellow cookbookaholic.
Sorry if it isn't

caronc

Thanks Lolly for the kindle tip:)

Two new recipes tried over the past few days both of which are definite keepers

Buttermilk chicken thighs
Made this as per the recipe apart from adding some thyme to the marinade and using HM breadcrumbs. It was really lovely, though I'm not sure the breadcrumbs are strictly needed.

Gravlax
Followed the recipe apart from using less sugar (reduced it to 180g). It was beautiful and I'll be keeping an eye out for salmon sides going on offer to make it again:)

Mrs_Cheshire

Not really been cooking anything new the last couple of weeks.
Trying to finalise my meal plan for April, before I do my bulk meat shop. Struggling to think of new and interesting meals, so could you all tell me your favourite meal that's not obvious.

Lolly_willowes

thats such a hard question! What's obvious to one person isn't to another. Personally I'm a spice fiend and my go to meal is Dahl. There is so much variation and because lentils are cheap it doesn't break the bank to experiment.
Other favourites are the vegetable tajine from the world food cafe cookbook and a nacho recipe on the good food website that uses chorizo. It has quick pickled red onion and radishes with it and when u add homemade guacamole and some sour cream it is so much more than the sum of its parts. The recipe is meant to serve 4 but me and one other friend literally can't stop eating it.
Last one I keep coming back to is a Bon appetite recipe that's on their website that is a Classic carbonara but u add broccoli whilst the pasta cook and then serve a fried egg on top. Not healthy but delicious!
I could literally talk about food all day and I'd find you links if I was allowed to post them.
If you want more in this vein just say