What did you cook/eat today (May 2017)?

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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
yep... I can get the cauliflower leaves free from my supermarket. The girls eat the greens and some of the stalks from those leaves (dividing them into greens and stalks for simplicity). I also add in the stalk from the actual cauliflower floret itself when we buy them. So the soup is the stalks from the leaves and the stalks from the head of cauliflower I have at home but mostly from the stalks from the eaves. It is no different to using the stalk of a broccoli either. In fact most of the nutrients in both cauliflower and broccoli can be found in the stalks/stems not the actual flower buds (which is what they both are).
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It wasn't the fact that you were making soup from stalks that I was curious about (I do the same myself). It was the idea of putting them out for the chickens and then collecting the remnants up to make soup that I found slightly odd.
 
morning glory said:
It wasn't the fact that you were making soup from stalks that I was curious about (I do the same myself). It was the idea of putting them out for the chickens and then collecting the remnants up to make soup that I found slightly odd.
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Err. no. I trim the leaves and chop them up first. that way no one chicken runs off with an entire leaf because there are not enough to go around!
 
morning glory said:
This looks great! I wonder why the main course is called the 'entree' in US when it is presumably from the French 'entree' meaning the first course?
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To confuse people? BTW, thanks for the compliment. It was tasty, in spite of being picked on by bucky for using cheese.
 
epicuric said:
...My point was about the provenance of a chicken that costs around $2 (hope I've got my sums right here). Even in our cheapest stores, a chicken would cost around £4, and would be battery reared and pumped full of water to bulk up its weight...
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The store I shop at most of the time sells their store branded, battery raised chickens for about $1.39 U.S., as low as 99 cents when on sale. However, they will frequently offer Springer Mountain Farms whole chickens for under $2.50 a pound. Springer Mountain are probably the middling of the high-end chickens.
 
morning glory said:
...Then there are the discounters Lidl and Aldi...
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I love Aldi! I shopped them when we lived in Ohio, then moved to MA and had to wait a few years for them to move into the area so I could shop them again. It's twice the distance as my regular grocery store, and in the opposite direction, so they have to have enough deals to make it worth my while. Hubby's favorite Toy Store (Lowe's Home Improvement) is also in Aldi's direction. We'll use a trip for handyman stuff to justify an Aldi run, and vice-versa.
 
SNSSO, your soup looks delicious! I make a cheese-cauliflower soup from the florets, but have never used the stalks. Shame on me? I'll have to do that next time, along with the sumac. I usually toss in a fair amount of cayenne pepper.

We had mushroom and cheese omelets tonight, along with a bit of ham steaks. Added a slice of toasted whole wheat (wholemeal) bread and called it a meal. Then we topped it off with some sliced strawberries and a bit of vanilla ice cream.
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Lynne Guinne said:
SNSSO, your soup looks delicious! I make a cheese-cauliflower soup from the florets, but have never used the stalks. Shame on me? I'll have to do that next time, along with the sumac. I usually toss in a fair amount of cayenne pepper.

We had mushroom and cheese omelets tonight, along with a bit of ham steaks. Added a slice of toasted whole wheat (wholemeal) bread and called it a meal. Then we topped it off with some sliced strawberries and a bit of vanilla ice cream.
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Looks very succulent!
 
I have been down at the snooker all afternoon (AKA on t'pish) so it will be khow phat gai (chicken fried rice) carry out from the fat lady's restaurant in the village this evening.
 
Lynne Guinne said:
The store I shop at most of the time sells their store branded, battery raised chickens for about $1.39 U.S., as low as 99 cents when on sale. However, they will frequently offer Springer Mountain Farms whole chickens for under $2.50 a pound. Springer Mountain are probably the middling of the high-end chickens.
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You must be farther away from the nearest chicken plant than I am. According to Tyson, the closer you are to a plant, the cheaper the chicken.
From reading many posts here, I think on basic groceries the US has lower prices than the UK. Now on spices and assorted other imported from Europe foods, I believe the UK is much cheaper.
Note: this is not counting Ralph's/Fiesta spices that come mainly out of Mexico. You have to find an affiliated foods grocery store to buy them. They are super cheap.
 
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