What Is For Tea?
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Re: What Is For Tea?
Sounds good. My gal would like it too.
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Going to bump start this old thread with the ground-breaking news that as my husband is abandoning me for the cinema tonight, I will be having a jacket potato, tuna mayo and some salady bits.
Anyone else eating something more exciting?
Anyone else eating something more exciting?
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I've looked in the deep freezer and have a surfeit of assorted beans (broad, dwarf, etc) and peas. So basically it's vegetable soup based around these for a long time until I've work the pile down.
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Almond-crusted cod, celeriac fries and broccoli. Bloomin' lovely.
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Ooh Almond Crusted Cod, sounds lush. And 'clean'.
I have a beef casserole in the slow cooker with all of the odds and sods vegetables curling up in the fridge and half a bottle of red wine (I think the alcohol will cook off by the time I eat it). Served with mustard mash...mmmm...
I have a beef casserole in the slow cooker with all of the odds and sods vegetables curling up in the fridge and half a bottle of red wine (I think the alcohol will cook off by the time I eat it). Served with mustard mash...mmmm...
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Celeriac fries? How do you make them?Green Aura wrote:Almond-crusted cod, celeriac fries and broccoli. Bloomin' lovely.
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I'm not keen on the strong taste of celeriac so I parboil them for about ten minutes in salted water with a good sloosh (technical term) of lemon juice. That tempers the flavour - if you like it then you can probably miss this step.
Then roll them in oil and bake them 200C for about 30 minutes.
They are good and low carb. Have I mentioned I've lost over a stone?
Then roll them in oil and bake them 200C for about 30 minutes.
They are good and low carb. Have I mentioned I've lost over a stone?
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Ooooo, definitely going to have to try those
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OK - so you cut them like chips? The baking in oven would definitely be out for me - costs far too much energy for a single portion. But I had been thinking of grating them and frying them in the pan (do that with tatties as well, very occasionally).
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I agree, I wouldn't heat the oven just for the chips. I tend to do them when I've got a full meal to cook, or I've been baking (don't do much these days due to diet ). However there's no reason you couldn't fry them, especially if they've been par-boiled first, they wouldn't take much doing. And yes, sorry, cut them into chips, before parboiling.ina wrote:The baking in oven would definitely be out for me - costs far too much energy for a single portion.
As for grating, that would work well like rosti. Just grate, season and mix in a little oil then press into pan on a fairly low light, to cook them through before they burn on the outside (but some crozzled bits are really tasty!). If, like me, you need to par-boil to reduce the strong flavour, I'd do it in chunks then let it cool and I think it should still grate well enough.
You can also make mash with celeriac instead of spuds - also very tasty.
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Yeah, I know... I use celeriac quite a lot - much more common in Germany than here! A popular vegetarian main dish is "celeriac Schnitzel": slice (about 1 cm thick), par boil, then turn first in flour, then egg, then breadcrumbs, and fry. I've made them for a diabetic with Parmesan cheese instead of flour/breadcrumbs - worked really well, and would be good for low carb, too.
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I hate anything that tastes of celery
I defrosted about a kilo of pork mince to make some scotch eggs to serve as a starter for friends coming for dinner, then her ewes started lambing so it was called off, so I made a massive vat of bolognese sauce with it instead, so it looks like we may be eating it again for the third time tonight, did manage to give some to friend who was very hungry as she was with the lambs all day and hadn't made dinner so we didn't have to eat all of it
I defrosted about a kilo of pork mince to make some scotch eggs to serve as a starter for friends coming for dinner, then her ewes started lambing so it was called off, so I made a massive vat of bolognese sauce with it instead, so it looks like we may be eating it again for the third time tonight, did manage to give some to friend who was very hungry as she was with the lambs all day and hadn't made dinner so we didn't have to eat all of it
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Brisket slow cooked with apricots and tomatoes served with veggies also low carb (only a small handful of apricots in a large recipe) but still a sure fire winner with the other half.
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Sticky pork skewers for us tonight with possibly salad and some kind of rice with nice bits in it. We don't usually have meat two days in a row but it's been quite a veggie/fishy week so far, so I don't feel too bad.
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Slow-cooked goat leg today, with veg and cauli mash.
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