What did you cook/eat today (May 2018)?

[Morning Glory]

I like to choose decent colours, if possible. P.S. I mentioned a while back that, because of the bad weather, I ordered organic veggies from Tesco. Never again! They were awful - no flavour whatsoever.

I think Tesco's has gone down hill. There seems to be a smaller range of vegetables of all kinds recently.

 

[Elawin]

I think Tesco's has gone down hill. There seems to be a smaller range of vegetables of all kinds recently.

Ours seems to have more ranges but less in each range. A lot of the stuff I usually order is "no longer available", and their online shopping is even worse. Unfortunately they still do a lot of things that our local big Sainsbury's doesn't have (and our online shopping comes from there). There is however a fantastic and absolutely enormous Sainsbury's about five or six miles away which I have gone to and which has a lot more choice. Lidl has opened their new store a few minutes from me too.

Having said all that, I ordered some pork chops from Tesco this week. They were enormous, and lovely - dry fried for colour, and then slow cooked in a covered pan until just cooked through.

 

[detroitdad]

simple breakfast this morning.

 

[Herbie]

We just had whitebait (gf coating) sriracha mayo, mixed salad (various leaves, tomatoes, avocado, beetroot) and a local 'Sunday tea' salad of thinly sliced onion and cucumber with salt, sugar and vinegar.

 

[Lullabelle]

Dinner this evening, pulled pork in a bbq sauce, roasted veg and garlic bread, @The Velvet Curtain used the wild garlic growing in our garden to mix with the butter.

Apologies for the shadow

 

[detroitdad]

Chicken Parm, another first for me

 

[medtran49]

Tagine of lamb, preserved lemons, olives, onions, and various spices and herbs served over couscous.

 

[buckytom]

Chicken Parm, another first for me

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Did you make your parm in a creamy tomato sauce, or is that just the exposure?

Tagine of lamb, preserved lemons, olives, onions, and various spices and herbs served over couscous.

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I'm drooling. I've been looking for a proper tagine. I like the one from Le Crueset, but it is too small.

 

[detroitdad]

Did you make your parm in a creamy tomato sauce, or is that just the exposure?

creamy tomato sauce. Tried something different

 

[buckytom]

creamy tomato sauce. Tried something different

Looks good. I love a good, saucy chicken parm. A lot of people prefer just a bit of sauce and cheese so that some of the breading is still exposed and crispy. Give me extra sauce, please.

 

[Yorky]

A widow of a friend called around on Wednesday. She has discovered an excellent way of cooking chicken curry with virtually no effort at all. She gave my wife Bht 350.00 ($12.00) to buy the ingredients and asked her to ring when it was ready!

Today my wife and I cooked her curry, extra hot as instructed. Five portions (375/400 gm) plus one reserved for myself. This is the one that I reserved and although it was very spicy, it was very tasty. (With aromatic yellow rice and the last of the left over cauliflower masala (thank the Lord!).

 

[Morning Glory]

Tagine of lamb, preserved lemons, olives, onions, and various spices and herbs served over couscous.

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That looks lovely! No harissa?

 

[medtran49]

That looks lovely! No harissa?

Nope, the only thing that had a bit of spice was the ras el hanout, and not a whole lot of that was used compared to the rest of the ingredients.

 

[Morning Glory]

Egg on Indian spiced bubble and squeak with baby tomatoes:

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[Elawin]

Shepherds pie, and carrots in the oven. Peas waiting to be cooked.

Here you are: (I cook/freeze shepherds pies in a cereal bowl because they are just the right size for one meal.)