What did you cook or eat today (March 2026)

[TastyReuben]

Chicken salad and tomato soup:

 

[medtran49]

Cheese steak sandwiches with rest of the reverse seared rib eye, plus onions, garlic, red bell, mushrooms, and munster cheese. Rest of the potato, fennel, onion gratin too. Rolls had excess bread inside pulled out, brushed with garlic oil and toasted before stuffing.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Aubergine Parmigiana.
Baked the aubergine slices with a touch of salt, olive oil, covered with foil.
Then tomato sauce, aubergines, mozzarella, etc., and topped with breadcrumbs and parmesan cheese.

 

[badjak]

Smoked chicken...
Portuguese spices (shop bought) mixed with kashmire chili on the skin and in cavity.
Then lots of limes in the cavity as well and in the smokey mountain.
Very tasty, got left overs

 

[Barriehie]

Smoked chicken...
Portuguese spices (shop bought) mixed with kashmire chili on the skin and in cavity.
Then lots of limes in the cavity as well and in the smokey mountain.
Very tasty, got left overs

I looked up those kashmire chili's and they appear really similar to the Big Jim chili's I grow.

 

[Z-Cook]

Smoked chicken...
Portuguese spices (shop bought) mixed with kashmire chili on the skin and in cavity.
Then lots of limes in the cavity as well and in the smokey mountain.
Very tasty, got left overs

Sounds great - deconstructed piri piri
What are the Portuguese spices?

 

[Z-Cook]

I looked up those kashmire chili's and they appear really similar to the Big Jim chili's I grow.

I think the kashmiris are quite small in size - Big Jim is a NewMex type isn't it? But it's the flavour. Just looked it up - have heard of it - it's a cultivar - thought it was a hybrid. Was given some really amazing medium hot dried NM chile last year. So tasty, lots of seeds left, perhaps to grow.

 

[badjak]

Sounds great - deconstructed piri piri
What are the Portuguese spices?

It was not like piripiri chicken. I make that on a regular base
I have no idea what they put in the "Portuguese chicken spice" as I no longer have the packaging.
I have no idea how I ended up with it as I generally make my own mixture
Maybe I bought it for a camping trip or so

 

[Barriehie]

I think the kashmiris are quite small in size - Big Jim is a NewMex type isn't it? But it's the flavour. Just looked it up - have heard of it - it's a cultivar - thought it was a hybrid. Was given some really amazing medium hot dried NM chile last year. So tasty, lots of seeds left, perhaps to grow.

Yes, NM type. I've still got some from last year...

 

[MypinchofItaly]

Pasta lumachine (tiny snails) with brow lentils
How cute is it that small tomato?

 

[Barriehie]

Pasta lumachine (tiny snails) with brow lentils
How cute is it that small tomato?

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You've a way of making so simple look so good!

 

[karadekoolaid]

I looked up those kashmire chili's

Kashmiri chiles are about as long as your finger and are used more for colour than for piquancy. They're probably closest to a New Mexico chile, according to Camelia Panjabi.

 

[medtran49]

Kashmiris have a medium spice to me and a fruity taste as part of their flavor. I quite like them.

 

[badjak]

I agree with medtran49
I got the powdered version and I almost use it like paprika powder.
It's fruity

 

[Z-Cook]

Yes, NM type. I've still got some from last year

Are they sweet?