Foodie Chat

Last night I had chevre chaud salad for dinner.
Lumch today was in a cafe: sweet potato shakshuka with two poached eggs, cheddar, pickled onions, sriracha butter and toasted sourdough. Delicious apart from the oast which tasted (to me, dodgy taste buds maybe) like it had been smoked using a cigarette

Dinner will be a bowl of vegetarian chilli with grated cheddar if I have any.

Roast leg of lamb tonight with Lisa’s garlic and rosemary . Never used to like lamb growing up , but it’s probably my favourite meat at the moment

Pepper Pig wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:53 pm I had a mixed salad, some fried potato leftover from yesterday and a bavette steak from M&S. The steak was absolutely fantastic.

We’re always impressed with M&S steaks; not the dearest ones, not the cheapest ones, but the mid-price ones in the middle.

However, they do get cooked for a lot less than the recommended times…

I live bavette, I buy it at Morrisons

As I ate out at lunch time just soup and the end off the fresh loaf tonight.

I have made a portion of Hairy Bikers Ragu, it's our favourite.

Half has gone into the freezer and the other half has been turned into a lasagne.
We will have that tonight, with salad.

I will be back from yoga about 1920 so let's hope J remembers he's on dinner duty tonight.

After reading these posts I looked for bavette steaks at Morrisons this morning but couldn’t see any. They had quite a few different cuts for steak but bavette wasn’t one of them.
Does it go under another name?

What I have been buying from Morrisons is definitely labelled Bavette - bit it's one of those things, like lamb neck fillet, that doesn't always seem to be there.

It's very lean, I sear it on both sides int a really hot pan, total cooking time about 3 minutes, then rest in a warm place for 10 minutes, lovely; done like that it's rare, but not bloody and "blue". I don't do anything with the pan juices, because there aren't any.

Is it the same as onglet?

I didn’t see that one either, PP.

I’m in town on Friday so might try M&S if I get chance.

Pepper Pig wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:03 pm Is it the same as onglet?

No, similar but I think bavette is nicer, iirc onglet is actually the best bit of skirt (diaphragm), bavette is the next block of muscle along

I have stuck to the plan today. Plenty of fruit, scrambled eggs on toast for lunch and an SW Chilli for my main meal this evening followed by a Muller Turkish Delight yogurt with more fruit if needed. I’m out for lunch at least once before the next meeting. I won’t be so good then!

Baked houmous chicken, tenderstem, spinach rice, and fried/braised leek and celery. I’m feeling very stuffed!

I roasted two duck legs with a dusting of pink peppercorns on Sunday - lots of onions underneath so Sunday’s dinner was roast duck, cannellini beans mixed into the onion with a little stock, roast cauliflower with fennel seeds and roast carrots with nigella seeds.

Out Monday for lunch so just a bowl of soup for dinner.

Rest of the duck made into Thai-ish noodle soup with duck stock from the freezer and loads of veg on Tuesday

Tonight remaining roast veg plus a small jacket spud made into a frittata with a stray rasher of bacon and a little cheese on top

I've never had hoummus chicken. Is it similar to online recipes where chicken is coated with spices, roasted for a whole, topped with hoummus then roasted some more? Mist try that.

Well done PP. Duck sounds good, SS.

Fruit and Babybel for breakfast, Chicken Caesar Salad and fruit for lunch, Mac and cauli cheese for dinner.

All Bran, skimmed milk, banana, pineapple. Disgusting duck noodle ready meal for lunch. Smoked cod with poached eggs. Bowl of berries and 0% yogurt.

This is at least twice what I normally eat!

I have made a keema paneer for tonight. J has made dal and there will be rice.

It’s just chicken breast strips coated in humous and roasted till slightly charred…possibly topped with sesame seeds.

(Shhh, apparently it’s a BLW recipe, for little ones)

J is currently making kedgeree, while I recline with a g&t

SW lasagne. And earlier on figs, bananas, Babybel and chocolate. (Damn my friend). Strawberries and yogurt for afters.