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What are you making for dinner?
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Oops just me then….
well for the record, it’s chicken Kiev's today with Dauphinois, garlic green beans and spiced red cabbageNote to self - STOP SPENDING MONEY !!
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Friday night was confit duck legs which OH spent hours prepping, with new potatoes and served on rocket.
Saturday morning I got to finish the potatoes with my grilled salmon, OH had smoked haddock with poachers.
Saturday dinner was pukka pies - snake and pigmies with beans.
Earlier on OH suggested soup and cheese for dinner which meant I sprang into action and made some soup.
I'm not sure it's my best ever and I'm not sure how to enhance it.....butternut squash, onions and a few mushrooms cooked up in stock, too thin so I added a couple of little potatoes and a handful of green lentils. Once all cooked I've zizzed it to smoothness, added some worcestershire (which helped), a small amount of rocket, a few drops of hot sauce, zizzed again. I've left it for now after adding a finely diced small courgette and some herbs.
But at last tasting it was just not very exciting. I don't have any cream, sour cream, yoghurt to swirl in. I'm wondering after reading elsewhere about adding pickled onions to a soup whether I need something along that line - lemon juice perhaps or cider vinegar? Just to perk it up. What does the collective think???I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Debt Free Wannabe, Old Style Money Saving and Pensions boards. If you need any help on these boards, do let me know. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.
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@Brie I was taught if you think it needs more salt, it needs acid. Or chuck in some blue cheese 😊
confit duck legs is one of our favourites, I am very lazy though and buy it in a tin, we have a huge tin sat on top of the fridge awaiting attention over Christmas 🙌Note to self - STOP SPENDING MONEY !!
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Islandmaid said:@Brie I was taught if you think it needs more salt, it needs acid. Or chuck in some blue cheese 😊
confit duck legs is one of our favourites, I am very lazy though and buy it in a tin, we have a huge tin sat on top of the fridge awaiting attention over Christmas 🙌
I did wonder about adding cheese.....I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Debt Free Wannabe, Old Style Money Saving and Pensions boards. If you need any help on these boards, do let me know. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.
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HM chicken and sweetcorn soup with spring rollsNote to self - STOP SPENDING MONEY !!
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niceland was selling chicken and lamb biryani. hoping they'll be nice. only noticed afterwards that they are microwave only so I might let the OH navigate.
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I took the plunge today and stocked up for Christmas, the ambient stuff, including wine, cheese and charcuterie which had decent dates etc pretty much just need to buy fresh veg and seafood before we go into Christmas lockdown chez IslandmaidSuper quick meal tonight of chicken burgers, no faff 👍Note to self - STOP SPENDING MONEY !!
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Got one of those lovely salmon wellington's from Lidl today. Will be serving with some new potatoes and perhaps some peas.
Like @Islandmaid I've been doing some stocking up as well taking advantage of the freebies or discounts that Lidl has on their app. So some chocolate biscuits, crisps, cheesey snack biscuits, already bought a bottle of fizz. And got my OH a box of the violent creams he loves (yuck!!)I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Debt Free Wannabe, Old Style Money Saving and Pensions boards. If you need any help on these boards, do let me know. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.
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A tin of chopped tomatoes, one of butter beans and smoked pepper mackerel and some fresh spinach (in a sauce pan, not all at the same time), with some garlic, paprika, pepper and salt.
Made some...not quite spinach pesto to go with it (aldi has pine nuts!). Nice and warming, pesto not necessarily needed.0 -
I’ve got a large portion of chicken and sweetcorn soup to use up, so I will have that and make tuna jacket potato for himself with saladNote to self - STOP SPENDING MONEY !!
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