What are you making for dinner?

Brie

kedgeree was the dinner tonight. nice to have some very nice mango lassi from Sainsbugs.

goldfinches

I made a sweet potato, carrot, green bean, tomato and lentil stew and finished off the last of the cottage cheese as well as a brown roll, radishes and a blood orange.

Brie

it was the OH doing chicken liver risotto last night. one of my favourites but the livers broke up more than usual that OH puts down to them being too fresh. They were fresh from our meat guy rather than frozen from Watrose. One portion left for me at some point.

tonight was going to be swordfish steaks but given the OH has been cooking the last 2 nights and looking after me with a poorly tum I've said I'll cook tonight so it's a pork roast with new potatoes and roast parsnips. I might see if the tiddly butternut squash is worth having - it's gone a bit wrinkly so might be beyond use. If there's a couple of slices I can always put them in with the parsnips. I think there's apple sauce in the fridge which will please OH. It's store bought so not what I would normally eat - I like proper home made sauce or apply chutney neither of which we have currently.

goldfinches

I found a box of Freekeh in the cupboard today which had gone, ahem, slightly past its best before date so decided to use it up today and tomorrow. The box said it made four portions and that it could be eaten hot or cold which sounded promising. I duly followed the directions and ended up with a lovely bowl of chewy grains that have a mildly nutty flavour and a litre of very pleasant tasting cooking water which I'm planning to use as stock tomorrow or Tuesday.

So for dinner tonight I had more of yesterday's vegetable stew, a portion of freekeh, petits pois and sweetcorn from the freezer and a dollop of spicy turnip. You can just see the freekeh at 12 o'clock in this photo, it looks rather like brown rice grains. (Apologies for the steam clouding my phone lens.)