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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.)

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)

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.