What are you making for dinner?

Islandmaid

@happydenial hope you feel better soon x

lazy butter chicken curry and rice tonight, sans rice for me.

talking of cooking whole chickens, I shove mine into a slow cooker with carrot, herbs, S&P, onions and celery and cook fry for the day. Then strip the meat, all the bones and veg stay in the slow cooker, cover with water and left overnight for amazing stock 🤌

snowbird20

yesterday I got the urge for some Maine seafood stew so I jumped up and went to buy the ingredients.  It was quite expensive (but cheaper than going to Maine from Florida!) but it turned out really good.  We had leftovers for lunch today with plenty to put in the freezer for later.

Tonight sees us using the package of bok choy that will go bad while we're on holiday.  It is also a big batch but I read on the net that it, too, can be frozen for later so we will do that.  

This is my last dinner for awhile--we are going on holiday to Texas for a cruise and then a stop for Mardi Gras in New Orleans on the way back to Florida.  

goldfinches

Still full from a use it up salad I made for lunch so just had a couple of passion fruits with a scoop of ice cream as a treat and am now about to slope off to bed, night all, goldfinches.

Islandmaid

Found a huge pack of pigs in blankets in the freezer, will use them up as a sort of all day breakfast with eggs, tomatoes etc

Florenceem

Hm pizza tonight.

C_J

There's just enough of Sunday's roast chicken left over to make some burritos. I wanted fajitas really, but I'm going to have to pad the meagre chicken filling out liberally with beans, rice and cheese to make it look substantial, so burritos it is.

kerri_gt

C_J said:

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!

Glad it worked well. My Ninja has a specific Roast function on it which is super handy. 
I always roast mine upside down for the most cooking time and then turn it the right way for the last 20mins to brown.

happydenial

Sweet chilli chicken thigh traybake tonight, roasted with anything that looks like it needs eating - two potatoes, a sweet potato, the last enormous courgette and a few peppers at the end. 

Caroby

Veg sausage and lentil stew tonight, to use up some last veg before shopping tomorrow. Will have a wholemeal pitta with it, maybe some tinned mandarin segments and dairy-free cream later.

Brie

Florenceem said:

Hm pizza tonight.

Snap!  Well almost - ours is store bought.  Crucially no extra cheese is being allowed.  

Hope your OH is feeling a bit better today Florenceem.