Food

I want burgers now.

(Smash burgers in 4 frying pans with beef dripping, so they can all be done at the same time. I need a teppanyaki pan. Our butcher's mince always has a good fat content too.)

https://youtu.be/n-uh21ywBkA?si=cq7Lbm-DSp6Nt_vJ

*swoon*

That video popped up on my YT feed earlier today, looked so good, too bad I can't stomach onions anymore. 😭

I have a bag of parmesan heels that I have saved, but I'm fucked if I can remember what I was going to use them for.

Ideas & suggestions?

I tried stirring one into a cheese sauce once. Not convinced it made much of a difference

a minestrone type soup is definitely enhanced by the addition of a Parmesan heel.

I tend to use scrapings from my actual heel.

Throw a couple into a ragu (meat or lentil), natural msg that just works well. Just be mindful of additional salt/over seasoning

I haven't made a Bolognese for a long time because I was really disappointed with all the veggie mince options, but I tried again with "This isn't beef mince" and hashed together a relatively quick recipe using what I had at home, and I was really impressed by the meatiness of it.

I think this question has come up before a few times, so just wanted to recommend this veggie mince.

oil?

So Lidl had an Asian thing on and a bottle of flying goose Sriracha sauce was purchased, the kimchi version.
Need a chicken recipe with a glaze/marinade I can bung in the oven.
Probably using some ginger/garlic with the sauce it’s just the other soy/vinegar/ honey stuff I’m not sure about.

Recipes on their website involve a slow cooker which I don’t have.

Thanks for this - I haven't tried that one.

Just turn your oven to very low and put in a casserole dish.

You could use the bang bang cauliflower sauce. I am sure it would be fine cooked in the oven with chicken

https://allaboutanika.com/wagamama-bang-bang-cauliflower-recipe/#recipe

So I just made it up after looking at a few recipes.
4 tbsp Sriracha
1.5 tbsp Honey
Dash of light soy
1 tbsp white whine vinegar (which spilled over so was too much)
Big thumb of ginger
2 large garlic cloves
2 banana shallots
Diced chicken breast

Sweated off the shallots added some of the ginger and garlic half way through, put them in the base of an oven dish.
Fried the chicken for a few mins then covered the shallots with the pieces and in the oven for 15 min

Made the glaze and added the remaining ginger/garlic and covered the chicken. Gave it another 15-20 min or so.
Made some chargrilled stem broccoli and rice to go with it.

It tasted good considering it was a bit of a mash up experiment and was devoured by my partner.
Slightly less vinegar and more honey next time and will use runny supermarket honey as the Baltic field bean honey I have is quite dark and pungent.

@eskay that looks a great recipe but a lot of ingredients I don’t have in the cupboard (for now) Was whacked from riding so needed something quick and easy.

Super quick and easy Sunday dinner go-to.

Bash up garlic, salt into a paste, add smoked paprika, olive oil and the juice of a lemon. Spatchcock a chicken, rub the marinade all over. Cook in a medium oven on a rack. I add a bit of water to the pan while it cooks to keep it moist and stop acrid smoke making a bitter taste. So fucking good. Served with Broccoli and oven roasted sweet potato or oven-chips if I’m being super lazy.

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Has anyone one made a sort of green pesto like sauce with wilted lettuce, spring onion and celery? Sort of clearing out the veg drawer.

As I did that last night, adding the oil from some sun-dried tomatoes a few black olives, cashew nuts and dried oregano and thyme. Also squeezed in two lemons that had gone hard.

Going to add this to some cold pasta for a pasta salad.

Not bad for a first effort, missing lemongrass

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I have memories of reading this before somewhere but tableware - just want simplish, probably white/ish, plates/side plates/bowls/pasta dishy things etc. Don't want to spend a fortune BUT: don't want to see plates scratched with cutlery and definitely not fucking chips. What's resilient? Porcelain? Stoneware? I'm sure someone linked some french website in the past. What about trade/resto suppliers? Seeing metallic/grey scratches on white plates is a not so pet hate.

John Lewis ANYDAY

I've had better luck with IKEA than JL everyday although the everyday range that I bought was different to the one which they do now - which actually looks more like the IKEA stuff!

See it's the IKEA stuff we had which scratched like anything. I've just been shown some pink magic goo that apparently removes scratches but not sure if just instagram bullshit or real.

ah - actually i've just had a look at what we have and the IKEA stuff looks a lot worse than some Habitat "Bistro" we bought bitd before Habitat was shit, and the old Habitat stuff is in better condition than the much newer IKEA - so I take it back.

I think I'll have a look at something like these when I need to replace it all:

https://www.nisbets.co.uk/athena-hotelware-wide-rimmed-plates-280mm/cc210

I would say porcelain, if possible toughened porcelain. Stoneware tends to be softer and chips easily. If you want extra tough have a look at Corelle.