What's for dinner?

[Annpan]

Around 3.30pm every day I start wandering what to cook for dinner and I could do with some inspiration, I thought a thread that we can all keep adding to...


Tonight we are going to have

turkey fillets (20p from the bargin bit in t****) with some rice (maybe) and broccoli (PSB) and carrots from the garden... bit of a mismatch but I have stuff that needs using up.... maybe I'll make some sauce too...

[Loobyloo]

I'll be doing Tuna and spinach lasagne.

Dead easy, low fat and f**kin lovely!

Instead of doing a white sauce you just mix a tin of tuna with half fat creme fraiche, a good handful of parmasan and loads of spinach then layer up with the pasta and some passata in between. Finish off with more creme fraich and cheese on top and pop in the oven for 45min/1hr.

hmmmmm, really hungry now!

[The Riff-Raff Element]

Chicken stirfried with noodles & ginger. The chicken is fresh, in the sense that it was alive and pecking about an hour ago wondering what it would have for tea. That'll teach it to be so trusting....

[hedgewitch]

We're having Cottage Pie tonight.
Of course - you can always check out my blog for inspiration - all my evening meals are documented there.

[Green Aura]

Well, we were going to have a curry. But I realised that I'd defrosted some hare legs (from Lidl!!!) and so they've been slowly stewing with a bouquet garni and some juniper berries. I'm going to tart it up in a few minutes with some veg and port and serve it with roast potatoes and parsnips. Smells good.

Oh and I got an urge to bake so I've made some chocolate concrete (which I believe someone may have posted on here - thanks to whoever) and a vegan coffee and walnut cake (I've run out of eggs).

No slimming in this house for the next few days!

[Rosendula]

My daughter was craving bacon sandwiches the other day, so I took the bacon out of the freezer. By the time it had thawed she'd lost interest and it's still there in the fridge, along with some sausages and some of my veggie sausages. I also have some mushrooms that need using up. So I guess it's a fry up tonight.

[eccentric_emma]

just pasta and vegan pesto tonight with some veg mixed in. the vegan pesto is just from a jar as all my basil plants got wrecked by next doors cats, but its lovely pesto with mixed nuts and a hint of chilli. in fact it should be ready any moment now!

[Rosendula]

The fry up fell through . There was only about 5 small mushrooms and they had started going mouldy. I thought there were more sausages, but there were only two (between four people) and two veggie ones for me. So it was home-made pizza instead

[kiwirach]

i've just had cheese and leek risotto....i make up a big pot and freeze a few portions....freezes ok, altho, its never in the freezer for more than a fortnight cos its become my new comfort food!!.
oh, and a small pork pie on the side cos it needed eating!.

[red]

oh dear - bit late.. but we had
pork, lovage and cider casserole
based entirely on having a frost last night and i have not had any of my lovage yet.
I bought the pork, but the garlic, cider and lovage are home grown.
as were the spuds (boiled and fried) and mange tout (from the freezer) and beetroot.

I felt smug as I am the only one of us three in the house that drinks, yet I managed to find a way we all enjoyed the cider!

[Milims]

i've just had cheese and leek risotto....i make up a big pot and freeze a few portions....freezes ok, altho, its never in the freezer for more than a fortnight cos its become my new comfort food!!.
oh, and a small pork pie on the side cos it needed eating!.

That sounds very yummy! Please may I have the recipe?

We had a very cheaty tea fresh pasta with parma ham and a ready made carbonara sauce In mitigation I did have a meeting after work, had to dash home make tea and dash out to take my son to cadets and go to help out at the school vareity show - all before 6.30pm
I promise I'll cook properly tomorrow!!
We did have proper home made veg broth yesterday if that counts!

[LBR]

Peach cobbler and yoghurt here. Mmmmm. Tried making it with frozen peach slices, organic sugar, and teff flour. Came out fine.

[kiwirach]

i've just had cheese and leek risotto

That sounds very yummy! Please may I have the recipe?

hope this is what you want, rather than the pork pie recipe....cos i brought that

the recipe is from Nigella Express.....

1 TBSP butter
1 TBSP oil
2 baby leeks( or fat spring onions), finely sliced.
300gm risotto rice
125ml white wine
1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
1 litre hot vegetable stock
125gm chopped cheddar
2 TBSPs chopped fresh chives.

Melt butter and oil in pan and cook leeks til softened over medium heat.
add risotto rice and stir for minute or two, then turn up the heat and add the wine and mustard, stirring until the wine has been absorbed.
start ladling in the vege stock, letting each ladleful absorb before adding the next....stirring all the time.
stir and ladle until the rice has become 'al dente'....about 18mins she reckons!. then add the cheese and stir til it melts.
take off the heat, stirring as you do, spoon into warmed plates and serve with the chives sprinkled over the top, and scoff....its yummy in my humble opinion

[red]

tonight we will be having cheezy baked ducks eggs. with potatoes and..probably french beans

[Annpan]

I feel a craving for burgers and chips tonight.

Home made vege burgers and home grown chips