What are you making for dinner?

goldfinches

Brie said:

goldfinches said:

I made these Nigella's soda buns yesterday and they were very easy and quick with impressive results.

They look good and straight forward.  I admit I don't like Nigella (no good explanation for that) but I do find her recipes easy to follow.  Although I probably wouldn't actually follow them....

But question.....why use unsalted butter and then add salt to the recipe?  I would understand if it was added at a completely different point which might achieve some different chemical reaction or something.  So the first thing in this I am unlikely to follow is that I'd use normal butter and leave the salt out.  

@Brie - some people just rub you up the wrong way; personally I can't stand Bob Flowerdew which is odd because I often think he's talking  good sense on GQT, but I can't bear the way he says it, so I just want to punch him on the nose as soon as he opens his mouth. 

I've read two explanations for this on her site i) that the amount of salt varies between different brands so writing the recipe for unsalted plus salt means that home cooks are all including the same amount and ii) that Nigella was told as a child that some unscrupulous sellers use salt to mask the flavour of rancid butter so you should always buy unsalted and taste it before adding it to your other ingredients. 
I think the first reason is probably the main one because just imagine having to explain intelligibly how to allow for the percentage of salt in a household's usual butter as well as for individual preferences among those who will be eating the finished buns all within one paragraph. You'd probably end up with howls of despair as home cooks miscalculated and added ten or a hundred times too much and produced salty horrors that no-one could stomach.

OrkneyStar

Last night was home constructed Pizzas (bought base and sauce and cheese) and used leftover mushrooms and smoked sausage for topping. There's one left for DH to take for lunch today. Today I will make a massive pot of bulked out chilli, which will do with rice tonight, as topped Nachos tomorrow, and hopefully there will be some to freeze too. The night after that will be a treat of waffles, eggs and sausages (and maybe some beans if we can take it after two days of chilli!). 

ZolaBuddy

I've reserved a table at a very good pub just 2 or 3 miles from where we live. We always pop in there once in awhile even though the food is a bit on the expensive side (probably more now the government has lifted the 5% vat relief on pub food during the pandemic, and is now back to 20%)

Nearly all of their food is homemade, so I might try their Hunter's Chicken, while my partner will probably go with her usual scampi, or steak & ale pie.

We probably won't see much change out of £40-£50,but as a monthly treat I guess its one of those pub dilemmas  of "if you don't use it, you'll lose it!"

Getting hungry at the thought, and its still another 12 hours away yet

arielgirl

burgers tonight. I'll put in cheese tomato and avocado. No chips on the side as having two burgers. Although I do have three tiny sad potatoes that I really should turn into something. Ok, maybe a few oven cooked chips/cubes. Pudding will be the last of Easter Gateau from Mo/sns. Yummy.

Florenceem

Not decided yet.

Islandmaid

HM burgers here, BBQ pulled Jackfruit for the vegans, bread rolls, various salads, Basque Cheesecake for pud with fruit coulis, vegans have almond milk icecream and the coulis

A balmy 23 degrees here 🤩

Wicked_Lady

Roasted salmon with sweet chilli here, along with roasted Mediterranean veg. Hopefully no pudding, just a cup of tea. 

Guineapigsqueaks

We are having a bargain yellow sticker lemon and garlic chicken in the bag from Mr S, some baked Blonde Bella potatoes that are 29p a bag at Lidl at the moment, they are lovely and sweet, with sides of baked beans/sweetcorn/yellow sticker cauliflower cheese also courtesy of Mr S.
Guineapigsqueaks x

Brie

We were supposed to have seafood yesterday after we were lured to a market stall selling fresh local shellfish.  I got some scallops and the OH got a honking big crab.  As luck would have it he wasn't very well so didn't want to fuss with scraping the meat out so instead he had soup and cheese and I had a pot of leftovers I'd slung into the freezer for a lunch next week just an hour earlier (a mix of the left over prawn, courgette pasta I'd made the night before and the chinese roasted pigs cheeks with mange tout OH had made a day or 2 earlier - worked really nicely together in my opinion)

So tonight will be the shellfish instead.  The crab is mostly prepped already and just needs a crust topping so it can be popped under the grill.  I'd prepped some shallots and smoked streaky bacon to cook with the scallops and will finish with cream and serve them on toasted french bread.  There's also some smoked mackerel pate.

But right now I'm going to the kitchen to get a mug of chamomile tea and a blueberry hot cross bun.  

ragz_2

I have thrown a veggie chili in the instant pot. Briefly read a few recipes then made it up, will probably get a burn message as I'm not sure I put enough liquid in under the tomatoes, but we shall see. I'm still getting used to this machine - DH isn't happy with the slow cooker function, but I'm pretty sure that's because he was expecting it to cook his casserole in 4 hours!