What did you cook or eat today (December 2020)?

[Yorky]

Sichuan pepper chicken with potato and cauliflower bhaji.

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• Yorky
• 13 Dec 2020

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• Yorky
• 13 Dec 2020

 

[Burt Blank]

Tonight's dinner. Pork Sausage with cauliflower cheese. Desert the last piece of tart.
I just made the marzipan for the chrimbo cake. Mrs B will apply it to the cake later. More pics to follow .

 

[Hemulen]

Bolognese-stuffed, halved green peppers with mature Emmental/-er cheese, crème fraîche and sprouts.

 

[MypinchofItaly]

I’ve soaked tangerine segments in Amaretto di Saronno liqueur, then dipped them in chocolate. They are resting in the fridge now...more later

 

[Burt Blank]

I made the marzipan. Mrs B's delicate touch at work, she has a refined way with a cake trowel/polisher. I cooked some dried apricots/water/sugar to make the glue that attaches the marzipan.

 

[LissaC]

Chicken leftovers from grandma with potatoes I roasted

 

[MypinchofItaly]

I’ve also choco-dipped few banana pieces

 

[Windigo]

Steak with pepper sauce, roasted potatoes with green herbs, and cabbage/ carrots.

 

[epicuric]

I am trying to reign back Sunday lunches, focus more on fewer elements. I have been guilty of over complicating things. Today's effort was built around a shoulder of pork, rubbed with EVOO, Chinese five spice (such a good combo with pork), paprika, salt and pepper, vac-packed and cooked in a water bath for 20 hours at 70 deg C. Sweetcorn with lemon zest and crispy sage leaves. Onion sauce. Finished with a gravy made from last night's pheasant bones and Madeira wine. It was really good. I need to carry on making thinks simpler.

 

[mjd]

I am trying to reign back Sunday lunches, focus more on fewer elements. I have been guilty of over complicating things. Today's effort was built around a shoulder of pork, rubbed with EVOO, Chinese five spice (such a good combo with pork), paprika, salt and pepper, vac-packed and cooked in a water bath for 20 hours at 70 deg C. Sweetcorn with lemon zest and crispy sage leaves. Onion sauce. Finished with a gravy made from last night's pheasant bones and Madeira wine. It was really good. I need to carry on making thinks simpler.
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That's you reining things in? Wow!

 

[Morning Glory]

That's you reining things in? Wow!

I thought the same!

 

[epicuric]

I thought the same!

A few weeks ago, there would have been a couple of extra veg dishes, probably a fennel gratin, stuffing balls, maybe pigs in blankets. I am a reforming complicator of meals. Therapy is going well, so far!

 

[LadyBelle]

Ropa Vieja made in the slow cooker.

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[TastyReuben]

This was thrown together quickly, using some of our Christmas hamper goodies:

Quick Afternoon Tea

• TastyReuben
• 13 Dec 2020

Egg mayonnaise and roast beef with horseradish cream for the sandwiches. The mince pie and the chocolate-orange florentines are on the top.

The scones...golden raisins and dried cranberries worked into buttermilk scone dough. The dough was quite wet this time around, so the scones really spread on the baking sheet - somewhere between a scone and a cookie. Still good, though.

What's not good is that I broke our Christmas pud teapot, which we've had for 25 years or so, and that particular one, though nothing special monetarily, did hold a lot of sentimental value. I shall be spending the night sleeping elsewhere, I do believe, and am just thankful I've not been turned out of the house completely. - I may not live to morning.

 

[mjd]

This was thrown together quickly, using some of our Christmas hamper goodies:

Quick Afternoon Tea

• TastyReuben
• 13 Dec 2020

Egg mayonnaise and roast beef with horseradish cream for the sandwiches. The mince pie and the chocolate-orange florentines are on the top.

The scones...golden raisins and dried cranberries worked into buttermilk scone dough. The dough was quite wet this time around, so the scones really spread on the baking sheet - somewhere between a scone and a cookie. Still good, though.

What's not good is that I broke our Christmas pud teapot, which we've had for 25 years or so, and that particular one, though nothing special monetarily, did hold a lot of sentimental value. I shall be spending the night sleeping elsewhere, I do believe, and am just thankful I've not been turned out of the house completely. - I may not live to morning.

Good luck.