What are you making for dinner?

JIL

Roasted a chicken and plated up extras for parents for tomorrow.

I didnt fancy a roast, so I'm having an omelette with roast potatoes and green beans and broccoli.

C_J

Roast chicken for us tonight, my first time cooking one in the ninja. Will be served with roast potatoes, a couple of pigs in blankets, Yorkshire puddings and sausage meat stuffing balls frozen from Christmas, some carrots and cauliflower sprouts from the community fridge, and lashings of gravy.

Typing that out has made me very hungry 🤣

Brie

Delayed Burns night

Haggis with turnip/carrot mash.  Might be mashed potato as well or I might just add to the other.  I'll do a little bit of salad I think too.  And we may start with Cullen Skink!  Fruity yoghurt for afters.

goldfinches

I made this rather unusual dish to use up a YS white cabbage and it has proved surprisingly filling especially cold in pitta bread. Okonomiyaki-Inspired Traybake (goodhousekeeping.com)
Then yesterday I finally got round to making this which has been in my queue for ages. Lemon Self Saucing Pudding (Lemon surprise pudding) | olivemagazine It was delicous.

kerri_gt

C_J said:

Roast chicken for us tonight, my first time cooking one in the ninja. Will be served with roast potatoes, a couple of pigs in blankets, Yorkshire puddings and sausage meat stuffing balls frozen from Christmas, some carrots and cauliflower sprouts from the community fridge, and lashings of gravy.

Typing that out has made me very hungry 🤣

How did you get on roasting the chicken in the Ninja? I do ones in it now and aside from ensuring it's the correct size to fit in (we had some escaping legs the first time I tried it), find it really easy and much less faff than the oven.

C_J

kerri_gt said:

How did you get on roasting the chicken in the Ninja? I do ones in it now and aside from ensuring it's the correct size to fit in (we had some escaping legs the first time I tried it), find it really easy and much less faff than the oven.

Up until now I have always bought the extra large chickens from Aldi, and there is no way that one of those would fit into the Ninja. However my resolution this year is to buy less meat, but any I do buy must come from a local small independent butcher so the chicken came from them. They do a very good value meal deal

This chicken was very much smaller than the usual Aldi ones, so it fitted into the lift-out basket nicely. I put it on the Bake setting for 20 minutes at 190 degrees (the default temp) and then checked it. The top was starting to singe a bit so I covered it with foil, turned the temp down to 170 and gave it another 20 mins - it was beautifully cooked, and absolutely delicious. I had forgotten what proper chicken actually tasted like.

We had one side of the breast meat sliced with lots of veg, stuffing and yorkies for dinner last night, and there is enough meat left on the chicken to make a chicken, leek and mushroom puff pastry pie for tonight. I am hoping there might also be enough small bits to make a couple of chicken fajitas for tomorrow, but that might be wishful thinking!

Brie

soup night tonight.  there's the cullen skink still to be opened as well as !!!!!! au leekie (or whatever it's called) and tomato.  Or there's a packet of white beet soup from the Polish market.  Finishing up the nice rye loaf with pate and cheese.  Nice and simple.

happydenial

Haven’t done much cooking over the past few days as came down with an awful stomach bug - DH has been fending for himself 😱😉

Tentatively making the Hairy Bikers sausage casserole tonight with rice and spring greens. 

Brie

@happydenial - hope you're feeling better, tummy bugs are rotten.  Rice is good for them though - at least that's what the vet used to tell us when the cats weren't well!!!

happydenial

@Brie - thank you! Am at least vertical today, and yes, I might just have the rice for dinner!  

A pharmacist friend of mine always swears by cup-a-soups for tummy bugs (and hangovers I recall 😉) as she says they’ve got just the right amount of salt and sugar in them to replace what you’ve lost!