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As most of you know, Sinead has been hard at work in the gym, so now we're working hard in the kitchen as well.
She's signed up to a website that gives you a meal plan with list of ingredients and cooking instructions.
I, Desmo, step up to the plate and cooked last nights meal :D
Now I'm not much of a cook. Most I ever used to do was the odd stir-fry, oven food and pasta, etc.
Never really done any "proper" cooking before.
It's been quite funny as Sinead is not liking me encroach into her kitchen space. I don't really know how to do some things and I'm not very quick at it. I want to do it myself though so that I'm learning as I go. She's getting frustrated with me but she's trying her best to stay calm :)
So here we go with last nights installment...
Wednesday - Chicken Caserole
This is enough to serve two and the following instructions are probably wrong as I'm doing it off the top of my head ;D
Chop up one onion and fry up a bit, add sliced carrot (4oz) and chopped mushrooms (8oz) and a tin of chopped tomatoes. Stir it all up a bit and stick it in a caserole dish. Now chop up some chicken (??oz, chicken breast) and chuck it in the caserole dish with the other stuff. Thinly slice some new potatoes (not old ones with dirt on, hahahaha) and layer them across the top of the caserole mix. Now chuck it in a pre-heated 220° oven for an hour and then eat it. Yum yum.
Well, it went well last night and although I was a little slow, food came up trumps :D
Played dude :D
I'm trying to do the same myself, my cooking skills are very basic, and I cant be living off takeaways when I eventually get a place. Not that I'll get fat (\o/), it's just the guilt ;)
leowyatt
30-11-2006, 12:26
Well done fella :thumbsup: personally I love cooking and enjoy cooking stuff for people :) Nice one on giving it a go.
Here's what we had for Monday and Tuesday. Sinead cooked these and I just helped, hence they weren't as nice as my caserole :D
These are now from old memory cells so I'll probably get most of this wrong :p
Monday Night - Turkey Stuffed Peppers
Take two green peppers and get rid of the middle **** so you're just left with the shell. Cook some rice with some green stuff in it (can't remember it all but do remember some chopped green pepper and probably some herb stuff). Fry up some chopped turkey, add it to the rice and then stuff it into the peppers. Chuck them in the oven for a bit (can't remember how long, think it was 15 minutes). Serve pepper on a plate with some of the spare turkey and rice mix and add some green lettuce looking stuff.
Tuesday Night - Sweet & Sour Chicken
Chop up chicken breast and add soy sauce and a small amount of corn flour. Fry it up baby. Now get some tomato puree, add some soy sauce, rice vinegar and sugar and mix in well. Pull your chicken from the pan and set it aside. Pop into the pan some grated ginger and crushed garlic then sitr for a bit. Add you chicken and then add your sauce and stir. Get some rice on the go and when it's all done fill your tum.
Sounds good! If you put sliced potato on top of a casserole though doesn't it then become a hotpot?
Anyway, pedantry aside, my cooking skills seem to have plateaued recently. I can whip up all kinds of dishes and have even invented some of my own - turkey breast stuffed with sausage meat and wrapped in bacon anyone?! - but the really tricky stuff I just can't be bothered with. If it requires more than twenty minutes prep then my enthusiasm wanes. I think I need a cookbook for Christmas!
Kudos for getting stuck in though.
If it requires more than twenty minutes prep then my enthusiasm wanes.
I'm the same :embarassed:
Had so many big cooking plans when I first moved out and achieved very few of them.
Maybe in the New Year I'll get more time to try them, got a few ideas. Just not got round to it.
Sounds really good. I used to cook a fair bit when I lived by myself but I've just not done any real cooking for years. Perhaps this will give me the motivation.
Kell_ee001
30-11-2006, 12:33
Handy thing about living at home - I get some home cooked meals from Mum :D
The rest are filled in with my buying take-away, or the standard pasta, chips etc kind of meals.
All going to change yet again when I move soon though, and I plan to make more of an effort this time :)
I really enjoy cooking, but rarely get the time to do much of it.
This time of year I'll make up big pots of soup (broccoli & stilton or leek & potato usually), stews, casseroles and that sort of thing.
Dinner tonight is going to fresh pasta and 4 cheese sauce. All home made, and all piss easy to make.
leowyatt
30-11-2006, 12:40
Dinner tonight is going to fresh pasta and 4 cheese sauce. All home made, and all piss easy to make.
You make your own pasta? kudos to you :)
Aye. Pasta is easy to make. Chuck flour, salt, eggs and olive oil into a bowl, mix, tip onto the work surface when it's gone to a big lump, shove through pasta machine a few times, boil, eat. Jobs a goddun :)
Where's this site Desmo?
http://www.tescodiets.co.uk/
It's a subscription place but it's damn good :)
Sorts out all of your food for the whole week and even gives you a shopping list covering everything.
Piggymon
30-11-2006, 13:45
Sorry honey, I'll try not to nag you tonight when you're cooking the stir fry :)
Admiral Huddy
30-11-2006, 13:51
Rushes to Braintree tonight :D
I love cooking..
I cooked Teresa a meal Saturday night.. Lamb shank in peper breadcrumbs, roasted veggies, Ice cream with dried fruit mixed in to follow ( i forgot starters).
Bit of sexy smoochie music, kids upstairs out of the way, and we dressed up too. I had my pink shirt and tie on!!
We had a good night out - indoors! :)
Dymetrie
30-11-2006, 13:54
Sounds like you're enjoying yourself there Jamie :)
I've always enjoyed cooking, only problem is I can hardly ever stick to a recipe and never weigh/measure anything... Which is fun :D
I let my sister cook now though :p
Mic never cooks for me (unless you count heating up tinned soup or sticking a ready meal in the oven/microwave)
TBH I love cooking especially if I have the time to do it properly but I never follow a recipe or have any idea how long things take to cook - most I'll do is copy basic ingredients and times down if I'm doing something new but thats about it and it'll still end up getting changed :)
Admiral Huddy
30-11-2006, 14:13
Awww!
You to make an effort sometimes :D
OK, another night of cooking done with...
Thursday Night - Chicken Stir Fry
This one is a piece of piss. Chop up some chicken, carrots, mushrooms, mange tout, baby sweetcorn and beansprouts. Chuck it all in a wok and fry it until you're bored. Chuck in some noodles and black bean sauce and then eat it. Sorted.
Sineads new favourite word is "Yes Chef" ;D
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Ugh, mushrooms. Stir fry is good though :)
My elaborate plan for fresh pasta isn't going to happen as it's 9pm and I've not even started it yet.
Looks bloody good.
I was worried that I didn't have enough stuff to make a meal tonight. After a small amount of improvisation I managed to rustle up chicken breasts stuffed with mozerella wrapped in smoked bacon, with ratatouille and boiled potatoes. :)
Piggymon
30-11-2006, 22:06
I bloody well do NOT say " yes chef " :angry: :p
I tried to interfere again :/
Dymetrie
30-11-2006, 23:18
Looks good Jamie :)
But you need to get a proper knife :p
Piggymon
30-11-2006, 23:19
Proper knife ??? That's a kick ass sabatier I'll have you know ! ;)
Ugh, mushrooms.
Can't say I'm keen on them myself either. But I just shove them in my mouth along with other stuff and try and pretend they're not there ;D
Dymetrie
30-11-2006, 23:33
http://www.stormhawks.co.uk/pariahs/images/knife.jpg
10" Zwilling Chef's knife...
The website (http://www.zwilling.com/locale/en_ww/index.php) is cool as well, has a faceless lady on it :p
Even though I've lived on my own for the last 20 years (barring stints at my 'rents place in between), I still can't cook unless it comes from a packet with cooking times on the back. That's part of the reason I'm so unfit. :(
Good thread :)
Some nice food there, I like cooking personally, although it's difficult when you only get back home at 8-9pm after work...and there's a proper filtheh chicken shop next door which does 1pc chicken, 3 wings, chips and a can of drink for £1.99...so hard to resist :D
Treefrog
02-12-2006, 11:33
Even though I've lived on my own for the last 20 years (barring stints at my 'rents place in between), I still can't cook unless it comes from a packet with cooking times on the back. That's part of the reason I'm so unfit. :(
Use a packet as a basis for something Mark. I'll often do a packet of savoury rice plus handfuls of mushrooms, sweetcorn, onions, peas, prawns, bacon bits, TVP, peppers, etc, etc. Basically anything that can go in is fair game. Plus a little bit of garlic, salt to taste, a couple of sloshes of Lea & Perrins et viola!
Von Smallhausen
02-12-2006, 11:40
http://www.stormhawks.co.uk/pariahs/images/knife.jpg
10" Zwilling Chef's knife...
Didn't you whack that North Korean general with one of those ?
Didn't you whack that North Korean general with one of those ?
No he used this
http://files.turbosquid.com/Preview/Content_on_6_15_2001_16_27_19/Butter_Knife.jpgA4526C16-92F4-459E-B9BB410FA0B7A808.jpgLarge.jpg
Von Smallhausen
02-12-2006, 12:33
Aha.
A true professional.
Dymetrie
02-12-2006, 12:46
Aha.
A true professional.
You knows it ;)
Now where are my throwing spoons...
Now where are my throwing spoons...
Your boy's a limey fork-flinger, Mother. What *will* the bridge club say?
Flibster
03-12-2006, 00:34
Global knives for me. Love them.
Sold on all my Sebatier as they were crap in comparison.
I love to cook - but rearely have time for a decent meal sadly. :(
Although - did garlic roast beef tonight as I'm at the Science Museum tomorrow so won't be able to have a roast dinner then.
Only thing I don't cook really is veggie food. No meat = whats the bloody point!
That chicken caserole sounds good though. :D Plus - I miss having a gas hob. :( Only crap electric hobs in the flat. :(
Simon/~Flibster
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