Yum foods

Yesterday I awoke from a pot induced stupor, and decided this would be a good idea. (turns out it was)

I got a packet of smoked bacon, pine nuts, fresh basil and sage, parmesan, smoked garlic, paprika and some fresh pepper and chucked in the food processor, whizzed it till it was nice and fine. Then I got a whole chook, lifted the skin (without tearing) on the breast side, and stuffed just about all of it between the skin and the meat.
Then with the remaining stuffing (about a tablespoon) I wet it down a little with some olive oil and a chunk of butter, and rubbed it all over the rest of the chook (give it a real good rubbing)

Then I had a bunch of veg (root and fresh) chopped em up to a fairly small size, mixed some smoked red onions and some olive oil and seasoning, put them in a pile in the roasting dish, stuck the chook on top of the veg pile, chucked in the oven at 200 for 15 mins - gave it a quick baste, and then turned the oven down to 170 till it was finished.

Made a quick reduction of the drippings and resting juices to dress it.

Bacony chicken stuff, that was just fucking amazing and easy as fuck.

OMG that does sound delicious

I made a Tuna fettucine for dinner, it was easy and delicious.

in some olive oil soften a chopped up onion, crushed garlic and a tspoon of mixed herbs... when that stuff is all yummy smelling and soft add in 250ml light cream slowly bring to the boil.. then add a grated courgette.. add in some tuna or whatever.. cook it till it's saucy add loads of pepper and salt.. I used lite lemon and pepper tuna omg so nice..... cook up some pasta chuck it in.. easy and yum.

... that's about it. Was thinking about making some bread tonight with chunky seeds through it..

Are you saying you woke up just in time to make dinner LeKnight? :>

ha, no - I just came out of a smokey daze and realised I had to provide for my family.

jesus couldn't ya have just got a family pack from the colonel

Up here a family pack from the colonel has a completely different meaning. Re: missing pig

and fresh piggy not good enough for the family?

you're not a proper metaller at all, you're some sort of non cutting emo

no no, you misunderstand me.
A family pack from the colonel has nothing to do with food.

Last night, I provided for my family with cheese on toast.

You had me at smoked bacon, pine nuts, fresh basil and sage, parmesan, smoked garlic, paprika and some fresh pepper.

Although I'd throw the butter in with that mix as well.

I was going to add butter, but the bacon was very marbled and I wasn't too sure how much fat was going to come out, so as a compromise I added it to the rub.

http://www.simplyscratch.com/2012/06/chocolate-chocolate-chip-bacon-cookies.html

I am going to make these.

I had some Wild Boar and Bacon sausage last week

it was rather good

Does anyone have any super tasty but simple soup recipes.. I've got my monster soup pot.. but don't really have any good recipes. I wont be anything hard to cut up like pumpkin.. I can never cut pumpkin properly it's hard work

OMG HL!

QT, try roasting the pumpkin first, the skin (once cooled) just peels off with your fingers.

A quick awesome pumpkin soup - thai-ish

A couple of table spoons of curry paste (red or green - which ever you like most), in a hot soup pot, with some veg oil. Fry till fragrant, chuck in a sliced onion, and garlic. Soften and just as it starts to caramelize, put in the chopped up pumpkin, and let that do its thing for a while. Add however much water you need (depending on how big your pumpkin is - Ive been using baby buttercup, and due to their size I use two). Chuck in a couple of bay leaves.
Let that cook down for a while, keep an eye on it and season accordingly. Once its all soupy, blend it down - I use a whiz stick as that way you don't have to transfer to different containers.
Put it back on the heat, and add a can of coconut cream, stir through - you may need to season again. Serve with crusty peasant bread.
I like to make pork and sesame balls and chuck them in too.

Easy as fuck and awesome for a cold Sunday night.

Cook broccoli and courgette in chicken stock until soft. Blend. Add blue cheese. Blend some more. Damn, thats some delish broc&blue; soup!

Yum.



gc.

Girlfriend made this wicked lamb casserole in a pressure cooker .... took maybe 1 hour start to finish and was so good and really tender. Simple recipe too.

Made some awesome potato dauphinoise, steak and roasted broccoli last night.

Roasted the broccoli with crushed garlic, lemon zest, parmesan, pine nuts and olive oil. Squeezed some lemon juice over the top upon serving. The taste combined with the texture was so good.

Please report back when you do.

had a burger on way home from pub last night

it was so fucking awesome I shall repeat the process tonight only with more beer as a starter

I feel like beer and a burger

I just had curried Kumara soup the chef at work made for us.. and tasty bread..
My tummy is happy

I'm making spaghetti and meatballs for dinner tonight from this recipe:

http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/10/meatballs-and-spaghetti/

Seriously better than I ever thought such a simple dish could taste.

1 1/2 teaspoons minced garlic

:>

nowhere NEAR enough!

Open can, put in microwave???lol
Anyone have any good recipies for a curry in a slow cooker?

Lol indeed.

P17 at the Vietnamese place downstairs comes recommended

Cookd this last night in pressure cooker:

Saute onion garlic for 5 min
Add 500g of roughly chopped blade steak and brown
Add 1 teaspoon raw sugar, salt, pepper
Chop 3 potatoes, 1 kumara and 3 carrots
Add and brown
Pour in one glass of red, one cube of stoke disolved in 1 cup og hot water
Handful of fresh herbs (I used majoram and rosmary)
Cover, and cook for about 40 minutes

Whole thing takes about an hour start to finish

^^ Did nobody else notice this newish user?

I did, but there was no mention of video conversion so I though "as you were".

Well its just the proper proceedure used to be to try and discover the age / sex / marital status before Zenith did...

Times change I guess...

That guy was like a dog with a bone ... I'm sure his determination gets him laid a lot though.