What are you making for dinner?

JIL

I made lasagne for dinner tonight. With salad.

I love pearl barley in soups. There used to be a grain, in a yellow box took about 10 mins to cook, I loved that in soup but haven't seen it for a few years. Cant remember what it was called.
The other thing I have started adding to my soup is frozen mushy peas, the ones that are whole and need a half hour boil. Just gives the soups some interest. I dont let them get to the mushy stage.
Like these.

Glad

Dinner tonight is stir fry noodles with whatever veg is in the fridge, plus a steamed chicken breast for OH,
we quite often pick up downpriced egg noodles in Aldi and they freeze really well.
I’ll make a sauce from cupboard items

Brie

I'm not cooking.  But the OH has some lentils and sausages bubbling away.  NOM!

MSE_Kelvin

Slow cooker pulled pork using a leg joint that might have been in the freezer since the last ice age. Wish me luck.

MikeyPGT

MSE_Kelvin said:

Slow cooker pulled pork using a leg joint that might have been in the freezer since the last ice age. Wish me luck.

I had a Christmas dinner from 2023 and was surprised how good it still was - only another 5 or 6 lurking in the bowels of the freezer ...

Brie

MikeyPGT said:

MSE_Kelvin said:

Slow cooker pulled pork using a leg joint that might have been in the freezer since the last ice age. Wish me luck.

I had a Christmas dinner from 2023 and was surprised how good it still was - only another 5 or 6 lurking in the bowels of the freezer ...

we have some red cabbage & apple that's been waiting for goose at Christmas since about 2020.

tonight will be a light repast of sandwiches after treating him indoors to a pub lunch.  

goldfinches

I'm confined to barracks with a streaming cold so pulled out some leftover pastry from the freezer and filled it with a globe artichoke that needed eating, tenderstem broccoli, defrosted frozen peas and sweetcorn, some ys white cheese, breadcrumbs and two eggs all mixed together. I grated some cheddar over the top and this is what came out of the oven.



I roasted some parsnips and a bit of swede at the same time to go with it and it was delicious.

JIL

@mse kelvin heres hoping your Dinohyus leg was ok. 
I popped into the local coop for their eggs, and there was a young lad sat on the floor, next to the eggs,  doing the reductions, he actually asked me if I wanted the two packs of salmon for 50p each. Rude not to say yes, although I declined the quiche. 

Came home and made salmon fishcakes which we had with tenderstem broccoli and some hollandaise sauce.

Arents

It's a great discussion when you're planning to steal someone's dinner idea  . unfortunately, I don't have the imagination to cook something new and different

weenancyinAmerica

Don't feel you have to make something "new and different". Some of us prefer the old and comfortable foods instead. I would much prefer to simplify my meals - and it would help my diabetes if I did. I cook part of my meals and my roommate cooks the other part and he always wants to include tomato and onions in every dish - neither of which I should have.