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What are you making for dinner?

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  • Frith
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    Toad in the hole, bn squash, red cabbage. 

    5cm of snow in the last hour!


  • JIL
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    We had mushroom risotto, with salmon and tenderstem broccoli. 

    I make my risotto in the oven, the salmon baked at the same time. The broccoli went on top of the risotto to cook, so it was a shove in the oven and wait kind of dinner tonight. 
  • Brie
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    Frith said:
    Toad in the hole, bn squash, red cabbage. 

    5cm of snow in the last hour!


    wondering how you cooked your squash?  My guess is that you peeled it, chunked and boiled, then mashed??  May I suggest that next time you just top and tail, scoop out the seeds, quarter length wise and then bake cut side up with a lump of butter in the hollow.  Then it could cook in the same oven as your toad and save a bit of fuss.  When cooked you can serve as is and the eater has the choice of scooping the "meat" out or just slicing and eating it - the skin is fine to eat.  Doesn't work for all squashes but is perfect for butternut and some of the other small varieties.  
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