What did you cook or eat today (February 2026)?

[karadekoolaid]

I cooked:
1½ kilos of sweet chile jelly
A chile con carne with some morita chiles I had hanging around
2 lts of lamb stock
Spices for kori gassi (Mangalore chicken) and spices for lamb Kohlapuri
and prepped 3 kgs of veg for piccalilli tomorrow (veg needs to be chopped and brined overnight)
I ate:
Some delicious sourdough bread with a chunk of "torta del Casar" cheese
A large baked potato slathered with chile, cream and pico de gallo, and a slice of avocado.

 

[Gone Hiking]

This was a "Use what'cha got" sort of Potato, Chicken, and Leek Soup tonight. I had an older Costco rotisserie chicken that I picked off to make this soup. A neighbor also just dropped off a fresh Costco rotisserie chicken for my wife this afternoon, that I also picked off. The skins from each went to the dogs, the older chicken meat went to make this soup, the fresher we'll retain for buffalo chicken dip for the Superbowl, and both carcasses I cooked down with older onions, leek tops, carrots, and soft celery to make a chicken stock.

Meanwhile, I cooked off some older, opened bacon ends, and diced / chopped fresher veggies for the soup. I actually used some older chicken stock in the fridge to make the soup, supplemented by some of the fresh stock (now cooling outback in winter weather), plus the fresher of the veggies I had remaining. Tonight's dinner, I'll say was very practical and "organic" perhaps to round up and use all of our older items, but it was by no means quick. It took three hours on the spot from picking chickens to serving a final soup. I just kind of winged it with what we had and needed to use up. It's a good thing I enjoy cooking, lol! Mrs. GH LOVED it, so I'll take that for a win, ding, ding!

 

[Z-Cook]

They look good. When you say black beans, do you mean fermented black beans? They are naturally salty...

Was going to ask the same thing!

 

[rascal]

So after looking at SatNavSaysStraightOn beans n eggs on toast I had them tonight. These have wee sausages in them.

Russ

 

[rascal]

I poked the egg for effect.

Russ

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Cold Avocado, coconut and chilli soup over rice.

Followed by single origin chocolate ice cream.

 

[vernplum]

Soy sauce chicken:

The sauce is frozen and reused; over time it basically becomes a soy chicken stock.

 

[karadekoolaid]

I poked the egg for effect.

You sure it was for effect, or did you just poke it to annoy it?

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

vernplum I never thought to save that Soy Sauce Chicken broth, that's a great idea and I'm nicking it from you!

 

[SoCalZone10]

Pasta chop suey, I started out of just doing bacon bits(actually thin pork belly), and King Oysters, but I said why not throw in a corn and an Anaheim chili. I threw a large bunch of parsley from my garden.
This is my husband’s plate, mine is a bit smaller, but originally he said he couldn’t finish it, he did. It’s a 12-inch large plate.