What are you cooking during lockdown?

[Merthyr Imp]

Today I had a frozen cottage pie (Bisto) with mushy peas.

 

[Eweimps]

Lunch was a fish finger sandwich with tartare sauce
tonight will be pork stroganoff ( including brandy) with tagliatelle and a bottle of Golden Fleece blonde

 

[Rob the Imp]

Lunch was a fish finger sandwich with tartare sauce
tonight will be pork stroganoff ( including brandy) with tagliatelle and a bottle of Golden Fleece blonde

Stroganoff is a vastly underrated dish!

 

[Rob the Imp]

Butternut squash tikka masala and mini peshwari naans for us tonight.

 

[NottyImp]

Butternut squash tikka masala and mini peshwari naans for us tonight.

Oh, nice! Have you started grinding your own spices yet?*


*This is not a euphemism.

 

[Rob the Imp]

Oh, nice! Have you started grinding your own spices yet?*


*This is not a euphemism.

I haven't, but I must try it. This was using one of those jars of sauce that also comes with spices in the cap. One day I'll remember to buy the appropriate spices and have a proper bash at it!

 

[Rob the Imp]

Dessert for me was two mince pies blasted in the microwave for 90 seconds to warm them through, then some of my spiced pears and syrup plonked on top. Lovely!

 

[Eweimps]

Stroganoff is a vastly underrated dish!

Its a real treat from a recipe we’ve had for a long while and works just as well with rice. I think we need to have it more often

 

[Rob the Imp]

Its a real treat from a recipe we’ve had for a long while and works just as well with rice. I think we need to have it more often

Sounds good - especially as a regular fixture! I need to learn how to make it myself.

 

[NottyImp]

Its a real treat from a recipe we’ve had for a long while and works just as well with rice. I think we need to have it more often

We do it occasionally, but I'm never quite sure we've nailed it.

 

[Eweimps]

Sounds good - especially as a regular fixture! I need to learn how to make it myself.

This is what we do, it’s a fairly quick method gleaned from one of those tv cookery programmes about twenty years ago:
pork fillet (cut into medallions)
1-onion ( finely chopped)
1-2 cloves of garlic ( finely chopped)
4oz- button mushrooms ( sliced)
1 tablespoon- Worcester sauce
1 tablespoon- Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon- paprika
1 splash- brandy
1/4 pint- thick Greek yogurt ( or sour cream)
1 teaspoon- chopped thyme leaves ( dry ok too)
salt/ pepper

fry pork until brown and then drain and remove from pan, fry onion, garlic, mushrooms, thyme, Worcester sauce, mustard and paprika
return pork to pan and add brandy ( can flambé if you fancy be we normally don’t ) season to taste and add yogurt, heat through and serve
Takes about 15 minutes actual cooking tops. Would work with beef fillet too but a bit pricey

 

[NottyImp]

Thanks, will try that!

 

[Rob the Imp]

This is what we do, it’s a fairly quick method gleaned from one of those tv cookery programmes about twenty years ago:
pork fillet (cut into medallions)
1-onion ( finely chopped)
1-2 cloves of garlic ( finely chopped)
4oz- button mushrooms ( sliced)
1 tablespoon- Worcester sauce
1 tablespoon- Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon- paprika
1 splash- brandy
1/4 pint- thick Greek yogurt ( or sour cream)
1 teaspoon- chopped thyme leaves ( dry ok too)
salt/ pepper

fry pork until brown and then drain and remove from pan, fry onion, garlic, mushrooms, thyme, Worcester sauce, mustard and paprika
return pork to pan and add brandy ( can flambé if you fancy be we normally don’t ) season to taste and add yogurt, heat through and serve
Takes about 15 minutes actual cooking tops. Would work with beef fillet too but a bit pricey

Brilliant, thanks for this! I'll give it a go soon.

 

[Merthyr Imp]

Sunday luncheon was a frozen ready meal (Wiltshire) - gammon & leek pie with mashed potato, peas and added broccoli.

 

[Eweimps]

Poached eggs and mushrooms on sourdough toast for breakfast with orange juice and tea
slow cooked lamb shank in the oven doing its thing. Small glass of port in hand

 

[NottyImp]

Lunch: home-made pizza
Tea: chicken roast dinner with the usual trimmings.

Glass of rather pleasant Chilian red in hand.

 

[HitherImp]

Roast turkey joint with trimmings and a bottle of Aussie white alongside, with the appealing promise of leftovers!

 

[Riiiiik]

Every part of that sounds excellent!

Apart from the curry bit.

 

[Riiiiik]

Just had battered fish fingers, parsnips and mixed veg with 2 x double T&Ts.
Mrs Riiiiik wants jams sponge and custard for dessert. Who am I to argue?

 

[Eweimps]

Lamb shanks went well, cooked with root veg and leeks in a delicious sauce made with a lamb stock cube, red wine and red currant jelly. Served with roast potatoes, roast parsnips and a two brassica cheese again. Remainder of red wine seems to have gone too!