What did you cook or eat today (April 2025)?

[TastyReuben]

Meatball salad:

 

[rascal]

I've been up since 5am. Bloody cramp in one leg. Now 7 am so nothing as yet.
When the kommandant wakes up it will be crumpets and a cuppa
Tea is Sunday and 20c degrees so I'm going with lamb chop casserole, mash spuds, mash swede,carrots and cabbage. I bought chops yesterday.
One of my family's favorite meals. Daughter is bringing her banana loaf

Russ

 

[teamfat]

Did some Syracuse salt potatoes, with melted butter for dipping. Also some leftover roast beef with mushroom gravy.
Tasty!

mjb.

 

[karadekoolaid]

I've been up since 5am. Bloody cramp in one leg.

That happens to me sometimes as well. Same reaction, except my wife calls the police.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Did some Syracuse salt potatoes,

That sounds interesting! Is that something like a Canary Islands recipe called "papas arrugadas (wrinkled potatoes) "?

 

[teamfat]

Exactly like papas arrugadas, except dipped in melted butter when eating instead of red salsa. I don't think the Irish coal miners in Syracuse had much salsa available.

I had leftover potatoes, heated them up, served with a pistachio stuffed pork tenderloin.

mjb.

 

[AdaptAndAchieve]

TastyReuben your wait is over, it's cooled, cut, nommed ... ngl, I want another slice

Chocolate tart, no butter or double cream (cos cooking for me)
Pastry is semi-sweetened and flavoured with vanilla
Decorations are white chocolate stars

 

[AdaptAndAchieve]

Virtually all online info on oil pastry will tell you you can't roll it, or if you do you need to roll it between 2 sheets of baking parchement in order to succeed and to transfer it to the pan.

I can categorically state if you get ratio's right, this is not so. So yup, people watching cholesterol can have their pastry and eat it .. and roll it

 

[Barriehie]

TastyReuben your wait is over, it's cooled, cut, nommed ... ngl, I want another slice

Chocolate tart, no butter or double cream (cos cooking for me)
Pastry is semi-sweetened and flavoured with vanilla
Decorations are white chocolate stars
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The bottom pic is all you had left!!!

 

[AdaptAndAchieve]

The bottom pic is all you had left!!!

Sadly I'll have to ration myself with this one , chocolate and cocoa have sat fats even if the other ingredients were ok (idc about other fats)

 

[Barriehie]

Sadly I'll have to ration myself with this one , chocolate and cocoa have sat fats even if the other ingredients were ok (idc about other fats)

I've found low fat and no fat, 1% or less, cacao powder but they're pretty shiny expensive.

 

[AdaptAndAchieve]

The tart recipes I saw mostly used 72% cocoa dark chocolate (which was higher in sat fat), so I did a mix of chocolate and cocoa powder to make it lower. To be fair my tart was VERY chocolaty, so I could dial that back slightly.

Hmm, cocoa powder seems to be a pretty standard 12-13g sat fat per 100g. Even this one Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder 1kg - Dr Oetker UK still has 6.4g per 100g.
Ah well, I can tweak my recipe for slightly less chocolate, use a bit more cocoa powder, and a bit less chocolate. This was an adaptation of my adapted lemon tart recipe, never tried a chocolate version before, and only looked at other recipes to try work out how much chocolate to use

 

[Barriehie]

The tart recipes I saw mostly used 72% cocoa dark chocolate (which was higher in sat fat), so I did a mix of chocolate and cocoa powder to make it lower. To be fair my tart was VERY chocolaty, so I could dial that back slightly.

Hmm, cocoa powder seems to be a pretty standard 12-13g sat fat per 100g. Even this one Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder 1kg - Dr Oetker UK still has 6.4g per 100g.
Ah well, I can tweak my recipe for slightly less chocolate, use a bit more cocoa powder, and a bit less chocolate. This was an adaptation of my adapted lemon tart recipe, never tried a chocolate version before, and only looked at other recipes to try work out how much chocolate to use

Off topic mods are going to want to move this... Reduced fat is like half and the no fat ones are expensive.

 

[medtran49]

Chicken salad sandwiches with baby dill pickles and olives.

 

[Barriehie]

Made a big pot of New Orleans style red beans.

Had with rice.