What are cooking tonight?

Yes I plan to make Galens chops sometime. Eating up spare stuff at the moment like left over passata in enchiladas today.

Surely there must be a proper alternative to the dreaded 'curry powder' - I won't have it in the house!

Galen, no cooking done by me. The prawns were cooked by the Co-op!

We had Beef Curry (homemade) last night with a mix of brown rice, quinoa and chick peas (microwavable pouch from Waitrose) and side salad.

Tonight is chilli I have just put it on (cook it let it cool and have tonight after golf).

drop of light olive oil
5% beef
small packet of chopped chorizo
2 small onions
2 cloves garlic
1 red 1 yellow pepper
Tin kidney beans
Tin chopped tomatoes
Large spoon ready chopped chillis (in a jar in fridge)
dollop of chilli sauce
splodge of Worcester sauce
beef stock
black pepper- lots
glass red wine

Brown rice and salad to serve

makes a huge amount so usually freeze half.

Smoked haddock, new potatoes and spinach.

Just pizza (shop bought) and salads for us today. Think I might make some lentil soup for lunch, and I might even make pitta bread. I have some bread flour to use up.

Today is egg day for various reasons...think I may go for Spanish omelette and salad to use up slightly curly veg. .

Today is DH's birthday, so tonight so we are going out for a meal. That means someone else is doing the cooking. All I will need to do is read the menu and order.

Feeling very frustrated. Have an allergy to chillies, paprika and such like - every newspaper and magazine recipe, every TV chef et al use chillies all the time in everything, I'll just have to cook without or just eat cake!!

Nankate yes. The original recipe says cook at low heat in oven.
No I don't sear them first.
You can make your own curry powder.

Tonight I'm having sweetbreads which when I used Siri to remind me to boil them came out as "don't forget to boil the sweet friends "

I don't know yet but it won't have any more than 300 calories as this is a "fast day" for me.
The evidence of my over indulgence on food when I was away in August is slowly fading. I need to prepare for the over consumption when I go away in November.

Feeling grot today with fluey cold and aches etc so it's got to be easy tonight. Spag Bol using jar of sauce with mince and tarted up with extra garlic mushrooms and red pepper with a dollop of mango chutney thrown in. Wholewheat spaghetti. No afters or maybe yogurts.

I have already lost the 7lbs I gained during the cruise. Want to lose some more before the Xmas one. ( Qeen Victoria to the Canaries for 12 days)

Have just made a barley risotto from a recipe in last Sunday's Times magazine. It also has chorizo, roasted squash and onion in it and having had a cooks taste it is delicious. Made it early as have other things to do today so hope it warms up OK. Intend serving it with grilled fish as the recipe suggests. Don't know how healthy it all is although my mum always said barley was good for the blood. Didn't read the calorie count on the chorizo packet!

Galen (re boiling sweet friends)

I Will try your chops dish as soon as the sun shines to encourage me to go it shopping.

Today here it's mince from the freezer so will do burgers (with a couple of Oxos added to the mix).

Out. Not it

This cold wet weather makes me want to make macaroni milk pudding. Fattening though!

Trout caught by friends, with Orkney potatoes.....pleased to see some 'lamb' eaters in posts, as we are lamb producers ??

slow cooked casserole (in Rayburn not slow-cooker) with last of veg from
garden then apple amber, havn't made this for years so hope it turns out OK, and ice-cream.

Sea bass fillets (from M&S) with fried leftover new potatoes (most of which will be eaten by DH as I have put on weight this summer) and salad or griddled courgettes. Oh and blinis with peppery cream cheese and smoked salmon to start with. These are left over from a girls' supper party I hosted last night. One blini for me; two for him. Delish.

Salmon steaks on red peppers, mushrooms, onions and garlic, all with a big helping of reduced white wine, served on a bed of courgetti with loads of flat parsley.

Penne with carbonara sauce. Delicious.

Cheese and onion omelette with salad,and two big bowls of home made rice pudding,yummy.

DH will be cooking home made korma and saffron rice.
Lunch will be the tomato soup he made yesterday with home grown fruit.
I do cook, honest!

Cottage pie (from the freezer as it's school run day!) with peas and broccoli that has been tossed in lemon and parmesan. Yummy!!