was wondering if this thread could be kept going regularly enough to see what we all cook with our harvested foods :)
I managed to salvage some fennel bulbs and will be making fennel, chilli and ricotta risotto - it's a jamie oliver recipe and very nice, simple to make + blueberry and apple crumble for pud
salmon steaks, desiree potatoes and garden peas, home made bread..ray's still poorly so nothing complicated ;D
Spag. bol. for us tonight.... the only homegrown things in it were the onion and garlic... :P
Fish pie - own potatoes and parsley, followed by baked plums and rice pud - can't wait :D
Tonight I am serving mushroom pasta with broccoli and spinach followed by Jane's hotpot of apples & mincemeat served with Greek yogurt - a Sarah Raven Recipe. The shallots,garlic, broccoli, spinach and apples are home grown. I am rather pleased with myself seeing it in black & white (well black & blue).
I had used to make my own yogurt but don't seem to have had time this year - must try harder story of my life.
Oxtail stew... made by me.
£8 a kilo for Oxtail now - must be getting trendy!
We are having chicken breasts stuffed with blue cheese and rolled in smokey bacon served with broad beans and cauliflower with a very mild cheese and mustard sauce
Cheesy leek quiche.
fish fingers and chips, been babysitting 'til 5.45..we'll be healthy tomorrow ;D
Beans and cheese on toast..........................coz I likes it ;D ;D ;D
And its quick :P 8)
A laydee gave me a Morries BOGOF today....smoked cod fish cakes, so I cooked them...... it's quite true that cod's an endangered species ::) ;D
Farmers market lamb chops roasted with our garlic, rosemary and onions. Served with our potatos, sauteed, our peas, and I'm not cooking it. It smells deeeeeeelish (and I know it will be)
kids had tuna pasta bake
waitrose sell the most amazing small hebridean crabs and as we have masses of salads in the green house I will be making a mizuna, mibuna and mustard leaf salad with some radicchio out of the ground and tomatoes from the few we have left to go with the lovely little crabs
not sure about pudding but we have so many apples to get through :D
Pork chops, stuffing, sweet potato, cabbage, cauliflower and gravy
All bought from Tesco :-[
home made curry tonite,trying not to splurge 3o odd quid on a delivery,so king prawn rogan josh,mushroom pilau and sag paneer,own onions and chilli,buying the rest
pumpkin, sweet potato and tomato soup ;D
Beef and pepper stir fry for OH and kids, used the last of my long red and green sweet peppers, garlic, spring onions, and very hot Fatalie and Chocolate Habenero chillies for OH only...........that was hot enough..at last!
Sausages.... ;D
But have been up the garden to dig some carrots... and spuds and cabbage from store... :-X
Haddock with some allotment grown spinach and potatoes.
Had roasted salmon fillets, my own spuds done as jacket wedges, my own lettuce & onion in the salad - but now having to buy toms & cucumber.
Fish here as well - hake, potato and tomato soup/stew - with lottie pots and tomatoes.
Autumn stew - home grown Beetroot, Salsify, onions, celery. A bit of garlic & tomato puree... yum yum!
kids had chilli con carne, mince, garlic, onion, chillis, cloves, paprica kidney beans, tomatoes
with rice
i had rats n rice
lbb
Nothing..............just had pizza an garlic bread.............fed up with eating healthy so I am rebelling........just for tonight anyway :D
its gonna be simple tonight - roasted chicken drumsticks with crushed potatoes (a Nigel Slater recipe that is gorgeous and will use up the last of the spuds as I don't grow a lot of m/crop spuds these days) and I've dug up some parsley to make a sauce
that stew sounded good Ollie
Cooking lamb curry only using garlic from the lot.
Having a big cook-up today as it's raining (again). So far I've made Chicken Bhuna, Lamb Dhansak, Chickpea and coconut curry, and cauliflower curry. Will venture down the plot shortly and get some chard for the Saag Aloo. Once it's all cooled down I'll pack it into boxes for freezing. Should keep us warm on those cold winter evenings.
Pork and apple butchers own recipe sausages (fat babies they are) ;D, home grown potatoes, mashed and our own peas. Feels like a comfort food day as (for me) it's cold outside today, but no rain :)
Think I will do roast beef and all the trimmings, that is if Morrisons have still got their special offer on for beef. Should dig some horse radish up from the allotment but it is a bit wet today and a bit time consuming to grate it. Don't tell anyone but am going to buy a jar and buy some parsnips and spinach and save lottie ones for later. Better get walking or if I stay on here will not have dinner until midnight.
if you check out the honey and mustard parsnip thread you'll see most of us are cooking parsnips today ;D well at least 2 of us
just wish more of mine had germinated
3 of us ;D Siverside joint in the slo-cooker, just been to get romanesco cauli from the plot. Loads more veg prepared as I'm feeding the 5000 tonight.
Mincemeat tart and custard for pud.
waitrose sell the most amazing small hebridean crabs
Hope they are over 6" !!!
Chicken and asparagus soup with bean sprouts last night! Absolutely lovely and didn`t even know I liked asparagus from a chinese cook book.
Will make more of that soon and can`t wait for our spag to grow on plot.
Bought the bean sprouts as ours didnt germinate ;D ;D ;D
sausage, bubble and squeak and gravy ..spuds, cabbage and onion from the plot ;D
Roast lamb, parsnips, carrot/swede mash and best of all the first taste of our veg grown on the lotttie - broccoli and kale - and it was delicious!!! Even my 9 year old tried them (and he wont normaly touch anything green) and asked for more!! Yipee.
need to use up the last of the tomatoes so it's tomato tarte tatin tonight with a salad of mizuna, mibuna, mustards, chicory, picked from the plot today - served with some cottage cheese on the side
fried halloumi salad - but I reckon we are getting a bit fed up with harvested leaves, sowed too many
potatoes with Homegrown calabrese and tomatoes all in big chunks seasoned with my herbs, soy sauce, black pepper, and olive oil. I'll be baking them letting all the different flavours marry.
I'll serve with lentils and fried plantains, yum (http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk187/thifasmom/yum.gif).
thifasmom
what do you do with your lentils?
lbb
I've just checked back...£8 per kilo for oxtail, Ol? Was £4.99 in Birmingham market today 8) I'll buy some on Saturday and today bought a shoulder of Welsh lamb for tomorrow for £3.50...tonite, tho, I'm too busy to cook, so it's cold stuff....1lb camembert, beautifully ripe, at the market = 50p :D some cherry tomatoes and a biiiig bunch of grapes..that'll do me tonite 8)
Birmingham market ROCKS (as the young'uns would say)..I just think it's jolly good value for money :)
smoked salmon and prawn salad with home made spelt bread that will still be warm ;D
hippydave, hi -- just to show my ignorance, what is ' spelt ' bread please ? ::)
pan fried pork chops, roast potatoes, cabbage and runner beans :P ;D
italian spaghetti meatballs,salad x
beef stew.
tomorrow pheasant, I plucked wife gutted ;D
Quote from: littlebabybird on November 18, 2008, 16:33:48
thifasmom
what do you do with your lentils?
lbb
sorry for not replying sooner :-[, i forgot to check this topic, i don't usually wander into the recipe section.
to answer your question; i just cook it most of the time in the time honoured west indian way ie stew it.
1. i boil it with crush garlic till it its soft,
2. then i add all my seasonings (normally whatever i have at hand eg last night i had thyme, oregano, parsley, spring onion and celery leaves cutt up finely) plus black pepper and salt to taste.
3. then i just let it stew down to a thicken consitency.
Quote from: Hyacinth on November 18, 2008, 16:37:32
.tonite, tho, I'm too busy to cook, so it's cold stuff....1lb camembert, beautifully ripe, at the market = 50p :D some cherry tomatoes and a biiiig bunch of grapes..that'll do me tonite 8)
Hiya Cinth ;D
Have you ever tried baking boxed Camembert - gorgeous for dipping in gherkins, carrot sticks, bread sticks or anything else you fancy sticking in :o
for us tonight it is an oriental soup made with prawn balls and home grown chillies, lemon grass (that did surprisingly well) and pak choy
stir fry with our onions, peppers, sweetcorn, garlic, pak choi, red mustard, mibuna and mizuna..unfortunately, we had someone elses mushrooms, rice noodles and chicken ;D
Manicscousers, what a great selection from your own garden. :)
I'm trying to cook proper daal tonight, and an aubergine curry. Nothing from my own garden at all, bar a few herbs on the kitchen windowsill. We'll be well into the spring before I can cook my own produce... can't wait! (Just planted some garlic though, from the same Asian supermarket as my other ingredients, and they're growing away like mad after only a couple of days.)
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Quote from: Hyacinth on November 18, 2008, 16:37:32
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Have you ever tried baking boxed Camembert - gorgeous for dipping in gherkins, carrot sticks, bread sticks or anything else you fancy sticking in :o
yep! pricked all over & infused with white wine? 8)
Quote from: Hyacinth on November 21, 2008, 19:08:11
Quote from: calendula on November 21, 2008, 18:08:25
Quote from: Hyacinth on November 18, 2008, 16:37:32
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Have you ever tried baking boxed Camembert - gorgeous for dipping in gherkins, carrot sticks, bread sticks or anything else you fancy sticking in :o
yep! pricked all over & infused with white wine? 8)
oooh, yes, I agree. Had this for the first time at a friend's house a few weeks ago - hadn't occured to me before, but was absolutely delicious! (And sinful...) ::) :D
Roast partridge with roasted veg and pots, all off the plot and partridge were shot on mon
Quote from: thifasmom on November 19, 2008, 19:56:44
then i add all my seasonings (normally whatever i have at hand eg last night i had thyme, oregano, parsley, spring onion and celery leaves cutt up finely) plus black pepper and salt to taste.
Ooh - I've got to try it your way, sounds like 'West Indian Daal!' :D
I was very pleased with mine tonight, but I think I scorched the herbs and garlic a bit. Still very tasty though. If I say so myself. :)
Quote from: portsmouth30 on November 21, 2008, 19:20:49
Roast partridge with roasted veg and pots, all off the plot and partridge were shot on mon
Is that the minimum hanging time you need to allow for partridge portsmouth? I get given a brace of pheasants every Xmas Eve & they've been hung for 2 weeks or so before I get them & I dress them and cook them in between Xmas & New Year - v. tender and v. gamey :D
Big cheat here tonight, M&S £10 special, wine included. ;)
Bigger cheat here..I'm going to a housewarming party and the new next-door neighbours are Indian...and are providing the food 8) ;D
Not very healthy tonight.....Bratwurst sausages with oven chips.
back to the healthy stuff for Sunday dinner...all the veg from the "plot",green beans,kale,sprouts,carrots and potatoes.......with pork chops...yummy :P
Ate early tonight, roast beef, roast pots, spinach and parsnips (from allotment) parsnips were beautiful, very sweet, parboiled and then roasted (must plant more next year) but freezing cold up there and the spinach was a bit eaten but still tasted good. Batter puddings, still some mixture left so after I have had a play on here, pancakes, sugar and lemon juice. Brussels sprout tops covered with white fly and sprouts (I think they have blown/flown away). PSB plenty of leaves and nothing else. Off to eat my pancakes.
Quote from: Hyacinth on November 22, 2008, 17:01:29
Bigger cheat here..I'm going to a housewarming party and the new next-door neighbours are Indian...and are providing the food 8) ;D
On my way ;D ;D ;D
BBQ rack of ribs in the oven and just cracked open a bottle of red.
veg soup with home made bread. Soup has onion, carrot, garlic, borlotti beans, cauliflower, tomato, leeks, potato and chicken stock and herbs.
Half-inch Slabs of butternut squash in the skillet with some butter and oil til slightly browned on each side.
So simple, so yum. Next year I'm going to save lots of room to plant butternuts somewhere- maybe vertically which some say works.
Turkey stew in cream gravy with dumplings. XX Jeannine
still got a lot of carrots to pick so it's carrot and cumin soup tonight with home made bread
home made pea and ham soup with crusty bread, very warming ;D
Hot pot made with beef instead of lamb, all veggies thrown in.. it was 'orrible. :-X
Spaghetti carbonara, with salad and lovely french stick. Pancetta brought back from Italy - 150% better than supermarket muck here. Glad I've got another ton of it in the freezer.
Roast beef, mash and glazed carrots for the three carnivores, waiting for my Shepherds lentil pie to come out of the oven for mine.......lottie tomatoes, celery, parsnips, carrots, potatoes, leeks, garlic, onions and chives used in that, didn't grow the lentils!
chicken balti with pumpkin in it naan bread and pilau rice
stew and dumplings - glad I got the last of the calabrese yesterday, miraculously the frost hadn't spoilt it + carrots, swedes and anything else I can find, needs to be a rib sticker today ;D
Agree, need a rib sticker so chicken with chilli beans.
The beans are some of the dried shelled flageolet and Mother Stallard I saved - they will be stewed with diced onion, some of my frozen tomatoes and dried chillis. Warm me up from the inside. :)
Stew and herby dumplings here too! that kinda weather! ;D
Im not cooking anything,although I have prepared some veggies for my wife to cook for herself when she gets home,along with a nice pork chop.
Me?,Im off to work very shortly so my evening meal will be some pasta warmed up in the microwave in the canteen.
Red cabbage cooked danish style, with onions, apples, garlic and a bay leaf (all from the allotment) plus some red wine vinegar, sugar, lemon and seasoning. Desiree potatoes from the allotment, mashed, and Waitrose's delicious pork and bramley apple sausages. We're licking our lips!
I sowed some late coriander in the greenhouse and it is plumping up nicely even though it has been so cold so tonight is it going to be several curry dishes using the coriander and lots of home grown chillies, including Tarka Dhal which I really love but I will have to miss out on the otter though as I can't find any anywhere, Sainsbury's are clean out ;D
pork chops and roasted everything ;D
I really don't know! I did a big shop this morning, pork and lamb chops and a couple of steaks from the farmers marker and a piece of smoked haddock from the supermarket along with some fresh pasta. I also bought a couple of nice cheeses and of course have all the usual veggies. We will get through it all during the course of the week but I can't think what I want to make tonight! Any suggestions?
kedgeree would be nice :)
cooking chicken bhuna with my spicers from 123curry that was recommended by fork and they are fantastic very tasty curry spices ;D
thought I would bring this one to the front again
the leeks are fantastic now so tonight it is leek and red onion cobbler, made with a lovely potato and cheese crust and as the cob nuts have also been fantastic this year I am making yet another batch of cob nut meringues
HI your leek and onion cobbler sounds great, would you like to share the recipe..... thanks... qahtan
here it is :)
for the filling:-
2 lb leeks
2 large red onions
1 oz butter
4 tab spoons olive oil
2 teaspoons caraway seeds (could use fennel instead)
4-5 pinches chilli powder (or to taste)
for the pastry top:-
12 oz potatoes
6 oz self raising flour
1 teaspoon salt
3 oz strong cheese such as a cheddar, grated
5 oz butter
1 egg yolk
1 tab spoon parmesan
trim the leeks and cut into 1 inch pieces - peel and roughly chop the onions - fry both gently in the oil and butter and add the caraway seeds - cook until softened - add salt and chilli - turn into a large but shallow over proof dish
peel the potatoes and either boil and steam until cooked and then mash and leave to cool - put the flour and salt into a mixing bowl and add the grated cheese, then add the butter cut into small pieces and rub in until you get the 'rough breadcrumb' type mix - work in the mashed potato and then using your hands take small balls of the mix and make into small scone like rounds and place on top of leek mixture - brush with beaten egg yolk, sprinkle over the parmesan and bake for 25 mins or until a rich golden brown
enjoy
Thank you.... qahtan
We had courgette fritters tonight,took the plants out today, Phew! time to start on the squash glut :o
collected parsley, carrots, celery and leeks to make a chicken fricassee - 'twas great :)
bubble and squeak from yesterdays left overs with game sausages
Ham salad, from the plot -coleslaw, red cabbage,carrots,mooli,onion apple, lettuce,tomato cucumber and late sown french beans in a bean salad .yum
Shortbread and brown rolls in my NEW cooker. :D
Got in very tired and threw a sainsbury's curry into the microwave. It was surprisingly good. No a veg in site ::)
Quote from: Digeroo on October 21, 2009, 21:07:03
Got in very tired and threw a sainsbury's curry into the microwave. It was surprisingly good. No a veg in site ::)
We all deserve a day off ;)