Food

Going to make a pork, pumpkin and cassava mash bake at the weekend. Never cooked pumpkin before, please give me your best savoury pumpkin seasoning tips. I'm thinking chilli and corriander but how would you do it?
pumpkin or butternut squash?

Made a bad-ass couscous last night:

Couscous flavoured with: dried tomato, sunflower seeds, onion powder, garlic powder, ground cumin, dried apple, a little sugar.

Served with red onions, red and yellow peppers, cashews, almonds, walnuts, hazlenuts - all fried in chili olive oil.

Then stirred in some REALLY amazing feta and some baby spinach leaves.

That probably would have been enough.

But I happened to have a pork tenderloin in the fridge - incision lengthways - stuffed that bad boy with more crumbled feta, a little lemon zest and some cracked black pepper. Bosh it in the oven for half an hour on GM7.

Slice it into medallions and layer on top of the couscous concoction.

Devour.

I always make way too much for one person so tend to have awesome free lunches the following day.

The mark of a successful meal at Casa CYOA is that there is no photographic evidence.

Because I've eaten that shit up.

pumpkin or butternut squash?

Pumpkin if I can get one, some sort of squash if not

nuknow, how are you not the size of a house? i'm stuffed and you're making me hungry again.

I'm just having a Chocolate Croissant, from the Jewish bakery in Stamford Hill..... Omguize!!!

nuknow, how are you not the size of a house?

God loves me?

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You could offer to feed me.

But then I wouldn't have sweet lunches.

I'd have to think about it.

Dating thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Only if you come too.

My diet in Spennymoor, County Durham, consisted of fish and chips, traditionally fried in beef dripping, with a portion of what Southerners cannot grasp, 'scrapings'. And 95p pies from the bakers. Land of cheap.

Strong work. Well up for a cheap pie.

Scrapings? Do you mean Scraps you Southern softie?

(As Southern as they come)

Only if you come too.

I'll bring dessert.

The very same. I've heard them called 'crackling' and 'batter-bits', depending on location. Mini heart-attacks also works well.

having dark chocolate digestives for dinner. 3 of them. :)

Are you people aware that Clafoutis takes 3 min to prepare and is very close to be orgasmic?

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Do it. It's beautiful, in Paris you'll b charge something like 4, 5 euros anywhere, for a slice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v44fZQ5fhWc

I like cherry or fig clafoutis and it's also great when you add rum or some other rich booze :)

I made another one, banana, peach and cinnamon. Lish.

I made another one, banana, peach and cinnamon. Lish.
and you do all this for one?

Just potted 13lb rhubarb chutney.
are you selling any? :)

No, my friends are staying over for a couple of weeks. Cooking fest.

are you selling any? :)

Well the trouble is, this year I used nice 1lb Kilner jars, so only have 13. Plus I like to leave it at least 6 months to mature (1 year even better). However, I might be able to bring a jar of last years to Souths? However not next week, or the week after cos I'm away...

doe anyone know how to make peanut butter cups?

Ingredients

322 g milk chocolate chips, divided
260 g peanut butter
2 g salt
65 g confectioners' sugar
Directions

Trim 12 paper muffin cup liners to half of their height.
Place 1/2 chocolate chips in a microwave safe container. Microwave for 2 minutes, stirring after each minute. Spoon melted chocolate into muffin cups, filling halfway. With a spoon, draw the chocolate up the sides of the cups until evenly coated. Cool in the refrigerator until firm.
In a small bowl, mix together peanut butter, confectioners' sugar and salt. divide into the chocolate cups. Melt the remaining chocolate, and spoon over peanut butter. Spread chocolate to edges of cups.

Hope that this helps

Well the trouble is, this year I used nice 1lb Kilner jars, so only have 13. Plus I like to leave it at least 6 months to mature (1 year even better). However, I might be able to bring a jar of last years to Souths? However not next week, or the week after cos I'm away...

I see. Cool well I could probably swing by Souths net week. Need to get as much food down me as poss right now. Thank you Olly!

Alex