The what have you just cooked thread.

[0103media]

OK.. A bit of fun..

Post up what you have just cooked e.g. for lunch/dinner and ingredients times etc... Only stuff you have made today!!!

I'll start...

I've just made a vat of leek, potato and buternut squash soup...

3 large leeks
7 mid size potato
1/2 a butternut spash
chicken stock 1/2 to 1 (a matter of taste, currenty on 3/4)
pepper.

how?
chop leeks roughly.
leeks in a pan till almost golden (mid/low heat),
chop Pot's into cubes then add to pan,
chop squash into cubes and add to pan,
Add stock and pepper,
Pot lid, low heat.
Leave.......

Taste juice after 20-30 mins, add sugar,salt,pepper to taste

Wait until all cook. 45mins normally for me..

Taste, again, and stuff to taste.

When you are happy stick it in a blender,
wizz it as much as u like. (i like a few lumpy bits)

Stick back in pan what you are going to eat then and add cream/milk.

With what you are not eating today, stick in freezer box for another day :)




Ok who is next ? what have you made for lunch ?

[greannancrafts]

Too much time on your hands Mr M?

We don't do lunch - however for dinner tonight, we are having fresh salmon with scallops, asparagus and new potatoes - yummy.

Jane

[indri]

I'm waiting for my avocado to ripen so I can puree it for my daughter! Probably happen in the next few days. Otherwise for my lunch i had crab and cucumber sandwiches....

take 1 bread roll slice open and butter. Add crab to the amount that you want, and slice some cucumber and place in the roll. Put roll back together and eat. Follow with a cadburys mini roll (the eating part not the buttering and crab part). ;)

In the meantime take 1 portion of pureed brocolli, pear and pea and warm and feed to baby.

[nattynetty]

No fair - it's lunch so can't show off my (ahem) wonderful skills as a chef till tonight.

I've just had an Ainsley Harriott cuppasoup
Method:
Pour sachet into mug
Boil kettle
Pour water into mug and stir
....then take a few sips and leave cos it's really not all that - good for warming up my hands though!

Earlier I had a roast chicken roll I made this morning
Method:
Slice roll and spred lightly with low fat marg and a smidgen of low fat mayonaise
Add some sliced roast chicken left over from last night's tea (cooked by Mr Tesco not by me http://www.craftsforum.co.uk/images/icons/icon11.gif)
Job done!

[Aviya Glass]

I'm waiting for my avocado to ripen so I can puree it for my daughter! Probably happen in the next few days. Otherwise for my lunch i had crab and cucumber sandwiches....


Wrap your avocado in newspaper and put in cupboard for quicker ripening ;)

Don't do lunch although the guys have chicken sandwiches in their lunch packs, however dinner will be organic falafel (cut open packet and bake for 10 mins) in a tomato tagine sauce (tinned tomato, tomato puree, fresh garlic, basil, thyme, onion, chickpeas, cumin and coriander, salt and pepper to taste) with basmati rice.
Add cooked falafel to sauce for a few mins, serve and eat!

[BeadsbyLili]

I just made 'Lili's Fast Lunch Hummous Picnic'....

Start by putting a small pot of hummous in middle of a plate, surround with carrot sticks, mini sweetcorns & mange tout (yes, really) then make up a side dish of jumbo pretzels... yum ! And fairly healthy ;)

[beadsbydesign]

not eaten a thing yet today! Have had about 14 cups of tea though.
Put tea bag into cup add boiling water swirl about and then add milk.

For tea it's roast chicken and mash, greens and carrots.

[0103media]

I'm glad I started this thread...

I'm off to wizz and eat my soup now :) 3pm lunch for me..

[Caroleecrafts]

Beef Casserole with carrots and dumplings. Brown the meat add to a slow cooker, chop carrots and mushroom add to pot. Dumplings 4 oz SR flour, 2 oz suet salt mixed with water, tolled into ball shapes, wacked in the crock pot with stock of 2 oxo cubes and water to cover, left to cook for 4 hours.

It was delicious and very warming.

[alibear]

Greggs egg mayo sandwich -

METHOD

Take out of fridge
Walk to counter
Pat pockets to locate cash
Put hand in pocket and take out cash
Select a £1 coin
Pass over counter
Let hand linger
Receive 1p change
Put into pocket
Unpack sandwich
Walk along street trying to eat whilst pushing pushchair
Think about how much nicer and cheaper a homemade one is
Very easy!

[beckyboo]

toast for brekkie, no lunch :( .....and just finished chopping onions,peppers and mushrooms,frying off some bacon,scrambling some eggs and cooking basmati rice for a huge special fried rice for tea ...can you tell it's cheap week for meals in our house this week,lol ;) using up what i can out the cupboards and fridge.

I love making soup Mr M , doing a vegtable one tomorrow

[Alice21]

Don't do much for lunch just had a banana butty

[Magenta5]

Quorn korma with brocolli and chickpeas! Korma sauce was out of a bottle though because I can't cook!
I chopped and boiled the brocolli myself though:p

[Miss Jules Jewellery]

Beef Stir Fry in Black Bean Sauce with Chinese Pork Ribs and Rice

X1 Red Pepper
X1 Green Perrer
Mushrooms
Onions
Frying Steak
Soy Sauce
Black Bean Sauce

Pork Chinese Ribs
Boiled Rice

Absolutely gorgous - not as adventurous as previous posts but we enjoyed it xxx

[sherrielinda]

love this thread especially how to cook a cuppa and take the sandwich or whatever it was from the packet. I've got to make my pumpkin soup tomorrow and I did a cook up using the crockpot the other day so gave OH and mum the beef caaserole with rice for dinner tonight. The crockpots are so good for using tougher bits of meat, eg, stewing beef and turn it into melt in the mouth beef, not for me though, one of those funny veggie types.

[Madison Mae]

Lovingly prepared chicken risotto for my 14 month old (chicken, rice, tomato, peas & sweetcorn - YUM if I do say so myself) BUT NO, he had two mouthfuls then tried to feed the cat who was sitting patiently beside his highchair.

[Critchley]

I put 3 half baked baggetts in the oven for lunch, boiled 4 eggs, DH and I ate half, put other half in contaianers with cake, took it to another village where friends have moved in today and fed them.
For tea. Steak and ale pie, green trees (brocolli for the uninitiated) cheese sauce, Jacket pots. peas and gravy.
All very uninspiring I'm afraid.

[indri]

I've never got the hang of cheese sauce and gravy together on the same plate as part of the same dinner.... seems like overdoing things to me. Should be cheese sauce or gravy, though I wouldn't pour cheese sauce on a pie.

[GlamGlass]

Living on fish and veg at the minute....hoping to lose a fair few pounds!!

[0103media]

Just made (not cooked just yet) burgers to go with spicey rice :)


Load of mince meat..
Some sesame bread sticks.
Onions.
Tommy puree
salt pepper
worcester sauce
italian (and others) herbs
little bit of chilli

How?
put with in the wizzer.

Done :)

Mi woman makes the spicy rice with chillis, peppers, courgette and what other veg that's in the fridge :)

[nattynetty]

Last night I did warm chicken and bacon salad when I got home from my workshops, it involved...
Pop bacon lardons in frying pan (no oil) until crispy.
Add left over chicken from previous night's roast and heat
Take pre-washed salad out of packet
Quarter some cherry toms
Bung everything onto a plate and add some fat free ceaser salad dressing to finish :)

Tonight hubby is cooking chicken stir fry...
Cook up some noodles
In frying pan mix garlic, ginger and shrimp paste - add last of the left over chicken (resourceful aren't we) for a few mins.
Add stir fry veg and a cup of water
After a few minutes add noodles
Serve :)

[jencel]

I've just made Homity Pie. An old Cranks recipe, but I put extra garlic and cheese in it.

And to go with it I'm doing carrots oven roasted in thyme and oil, and some cherry tomatoes (and I have to do extra potatoes for OH)

[samigail]

fish pie with parsnip and potato mash

I used 3 smallish salmon pieces, 2 smoked haddock fillets, baked those in oven, meanwhile fried some onions, a garlic piece, some pancetta, boiled the pots and mash.

divided the onion and pancetta into 2 oven proof large dishes, added sweetcorn and peas to that,flaked the fish into the 2 dishes, topped with mash, popped back in oven for a bit, yummy 2 dishes of family size fish pie made.

even better - yummed down by my 4 yr old who struggles with food so feeling quite proud of myself tonight. Son who's 6 yummed it too, but he yums everything down!

(I normally add some white sauce to the fish base in the oven proof dish but forgot all about that while making it today but it was still yum!)

[leathercrafter]

just finished doing a BBQ in the garden bit cold but the hip flask sorted that out

[kerrybutcher586]

Sausages mash and beans,traditional easy to cook and a well filling healthy meal too out of it all.x

[indri]

About to make avocado puree for my daughter have no idea if she'll like it as she's not had avocado before.... Involves chopping up half avocado and whizzing it in a blender until smooth. Take soft tipped baby spoons and shovel in babys mouth.

I'm having cheese and cucumber sandwich and tomato.... out of crisps so may have to rummage in cupboard for something else!

Not quite lunchtime yet, but getting there!

[GlamGlass]

I had beans and half a tin of chopped tomatoes and a splash of brown sauce for my breakfast!! Yum Yum:)