What are you making for dinner?

Brie

Hotdogs.  well actually bratwurst but we're serving them in buns with cucumber relish, ketchup etc and coleslaw on the side.

Smoosh

Brie said:

Smoosh said:

kerri_gt said:

I like cheese and jam toasties ☺️

Oh - I haven't had that for years!!!  When I was a kid I'd have cheezwhiz on toast topped with jam!  So very healthy!!!!

I'm partial to Cheddar with strawberry jam 😋

Smoosh

Tonight we had mozzarella, tomato (olio freebie), basil (home grown) and balsamic paninis (YS bread) with herby baby potatoes (YS).

Followed by chocolate gateaux with raspberries. 

Islandmaid

Fridge clearing tonight, green salad, potato salad with a variety of proteins available 👍 love a ‘help yourself’ dinner or ‘fridge tapas’ as we call it 🤣🤣

goldfinches

kerri_gt said:

goldfinches said:

Brie said:

Went out for Sunday roast dinner - marvellous.  OH did one better than me and had dessert as well - an orange/chocolate torte served with that crispy bubbly sugar stuff and salted caramel ice cream.  I hate orange/chocolate anything so wasn't tempted by that but he did give me a taste of the ice cream.  Absolutely gorgeous stuff from a local company and completely vegan.  Don't know how they made it but it was lush.

Net result is no cooking tonight but if I/we feel peckish later there's some goat's cheese roulade in the fridge and loads of oatcakes.  And wine.

That's interesting. I hate chocolate/nuts combined but like each separately except hazelnuts. My evening class tutor this week spent some time on individual palates and preferences, fascinating and full of pitfalls that I had not hitherto appreciated.

Any idea if it was normal or odd i used to like cheese and honey sandwiches based on that?

According to the tutor taste is highly individual and combining flavours is where the art of judging what appeals to the palates of others gets very tricky very quickly. He said that cooking for the same people over and over again could still throw up surprising smash hit or failure dishes after decades and that cooking for a family was the most difficult scenario he knew of. 

I made some bagels yesterday and although the end results tasted nice they didn't look very attractive so here's a photo to give you all a laugh.



Things were going well until I got to the dropping them into a pot of boiling water stage! You can just about tell that they entered the water as rings but they didn't leave the same way! I might have another go some day now that I have more of an idea what not to do.

Florenceem

I still have lo chippy shop chips in the fridge so will use them tonight with lo sausage rolls and tomatoes/egg.

kerri_gt

Tonight is going to be a salad of some form with blue cheese and pear. With a posh dog from M&S (via the freezer)
Really trying to make an effort to use up some 'stuff' in the freezer - lots of odd bags of bits. Esp now the house that used to put out lots of Olio stuff has stopped doing so. 

Smoosh

Veggie sausages in brioche buns (YS) with fried onions, chips and peas.

Followed by the last bit of chocolate gateaux, raspberries and half a doughnut (YS). 

greenbee

@goldfinches - your class sounds fabulous. Can you share details? 

C_J

Using up bits and bobs to make a chicken, veg and noodle stir fry tonight. I picked up loads of Hello Fresh sauce sachets (ketjap manis, sriracha, teriyaki, soy sauce and harissa) from the community fridge last week so it will be seasoned with an assortment of those!